Olin Miller Dantzler
Born: January 14, 1825
Birthplace: St. Matthews, Orangeburg, District South Carolina
Father: Jacob Miller Dantzler 1804 – 1857
(Buried: Tabernacle Cemetery, Saint Matthews, South Carolina)
Mother: Mary__________________1809 – 1827
(Buried: Tabernacle Cemetery, Saint Matthews, South Carolina)
Wife: Caroline Anna Glover 1829 – 1864
(Buried: Tabernacle Cemetery, Saint Matthews, South Carolina)
Children:
Charles Glover Dantzler 1854 – 1919
(Buried: Sunnyside Cemetery, Orangeburg, South Carolina)
Olin Miller Dantzler Jr. 1855 – 1911
(Buried: Saint Paul’s Methodist Church, Saint Matthews, South Carolina)
Thomas Woodward Dantzler 1858 – 1947
(Buried: West End Cemetery, Saint Matthews, South Carolina)
Captain Mortimer Owen Dantzler 1860 – 1925
(Buried: Sunnyside Cemetery, Orangeburg, South Carolina)
Frederick Butler Dantzler 1864 – 1939
(Buried: Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Arizona)
Education:
Graduated from Randolph – Macon College
Occupation before War:
Planter in Orangeburg, South Carolina
1852 – 1862: South Carolina State Representative
Civil War Career:
1861: 3rd Lt. Of Company D, 1st South Carolina (Hagood's) Infantry
1861 – 1862: 2nd Lt. Of Company D, 1st South Carolina (Hagood's)
1862 – 1864: Lt. Colonel of 20th South Carolina Infantry Regiment
1864: Colonel of 20th South Carolina Infantry Regiment
1864: Killed in battle during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Virginia
Died: June 2, 1864
Place of Death: Chesterfield County, Virginia
Age at time of Death: 39 years old
Original Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
New Burial Place: Tabernacle Methodist Churchyard, St. Matthews, South Carolina
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