The Lorick family in South Carolina

Family Photos

• Robert F. Lorick (68 KB)
  Meet the creator of the Lorick family homepage. He has been searching for his ancestors since 1960. The above picture was taken in 1973 when I was much younger. Hope my family outlines are some help to you as you search for your Lorick roots. Best Regards, Robert Lorick
• David Franklin & Alice Isabel Leitner Lorick (252 KB)
  The above picture was taken on January 18, 1893. It is the wedding picture of my grandfather and grandmother of Irmo, South Carolina. This picture was restored from the original on December 8, 2001, by their grandson, Robert Franklin Lorick.
• The Bookman Cemetery (788 KB)
  The Bookman Cemetery was first located in Lexington County, but it is now in Richland County, South Carolina, off Koon Road onto Strawberry Ridge Lane. The two headstones in the foreground is that of George Washington Lorick and his wife, Caroline Elvira Geiger Lorick. The headstone at the left of the picture was moved to the Bookman Cemetery on April 6, 2001. It weighted 17 tons and was the headstone of Capt. George Lorick and his wife, Elizabeth Turnipseed Lorick, and his son, Jacob Hamilton Lorick. This headstone was once located at the old Lorick Plantation Family Cemetery near Irmo, South Carolina, and at the intersection of HWY176 & I-26 West & Lordship Lane. It was relocated to make room for progress. NOTE: Graves of Bookman family members are behind the iron fence.
• The headstone of Capt. George Lorick and family (228 KB)
  The above picture was taken on January 11, 2002, by the Great-Great-Great-Grandson of Capt. George Lorick (1781-1853) and his wife, Elizabeth Turnipseed (Rebsaman) Lorick (1826-1885). Their seventeen (17) ton headstone and their graves, along with the grave of their son, Capt. Jacob Hamilton Lorick (1809-1848), was moved to the old Bookman Church Cemetery on April 6, 2001. Capt. Jacob's wife, the former Miss Mary Ann Geiger (1811-1857), was laid to rest at the Burnt Mill Cemetery near Sandy Run, South Carolina. NOTE: Preston Campbell Lorick, grandson of Capt. George and Elizabeth Lorick; son of Jacob and Mary Ann Geiger Lorick, originality erected this headstone in 1921 at the site of the old Lorick Plantation near Irmo, South Carolina.