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Pooshee Cemetery will be under water near Pooshee Plantation. The old home has been demolished for Santee Cooper Project.

A large stone has this inscription:
"It is to honor their last resting place that this stone is erected by one of their descendants, A.D. 1855.

Rene Louis Ravenel, 2nd son of Rene the emigrant and his wife Susan, and their sons, Rene, James and Daniel and their daughters Elizabeth and Lusannah, also Stephen Mayzck, husband of the above named Lusannah and Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Daniel Ravenel of Somerset and his wife of the above named Daniel. They died successively between the years of 1740 and 1787. Their Huguenot Ancestors settled and lived in this immediate neighborhood. Here they lived and died and their descendants, still continue to occupy this soil.

Pooshee Plantation: Located seven miles north of Pinopolis. Burial grounds was used by Ravenel family for generations. Pooshee was granted to Peter St. Julien by the Lords Proprietors in 1705 and was 1000 acres. In 1711, it passed to Henry Le Noble and in 1714 to Rene Louis Ravenel. Remaining in hands of Ravenel family until recently. In area to be flooded. The area is about one acre.

Henry R. Dwight