Eagle Scout: June 17, 1937
Birth: September 6, 1914
Death: January 16, 1985
Burial: Episcopal Church of the Advent
Find A Grave | Spartanburg Herald-Journal, January 17, 1985, page 9A
“Scouts Conduct Court of Honor”
(Image via The Spartanburg Herald, 22 Jun 1937, p.3)
“Conrad Cleveland Dies”
(Image via [The Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 17 January 1985, p.9A)
Conrad Pierce Cleveland Jr., a native of Spartanburg, was born September 6, 1914, the son of Conrad Pierce Cleveland and Alice Louise Williams Cleveland.
Cleveland served as the fifth Scoutmaster of Troop 1. He was leading the troop in September 1936, when the Spartanburg Herald reported that Ben Suitt would receive the Eagle rank at a Palmetto Council court of honor chaired by the Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton, the Advent rector who had organized Scouting in the upper part of the state twenty-two years earlier. Cleveland earned his own Eagle rank on June 17, 1937, at the age of 22. Adults could earn the rank of Eagle until 1952, and those who did were most often Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters, completing the requirements alongside the Scouts they led.
A graduate of The Citadel, he served in the South Pacific during the Second World War and continued in the Army Reserve, retiring as a colonel. He later returned to Spartanburg, where he was a vice president of South Carolina National Bank and president of the Cleveland Company. Cleveland served the Advent as junior warden and vestryman, was a founder and senior warden of St. Matthews Episcopal Church, and sat on the vestry of St. John in the Wilderness at Flat Rock, North Carolina. He was also president of the Spartanburg Music Foundation and of The Citadel Alumni Association.
Conrad Pirece Cleveland, Jr. died January 16, 1985, at Spartanburg General Hospital at the age of 70, and is buried in the churchyard at the Episcopal Church of the Advent. He was survived by two sisters, Nancy Cleveland Poole and Elizabeth Cleveland Burke, both of Spartanburg.
Sources: Spartanburg Herald, September 24, 1936, p. 12; Spartanburg Herald-Journal, January 17, 1985; grave marker, Episcopal Church of the Advent cemetery; Troop 1 archives.
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