In a message dated 25/3/02 11:33:43 AM, Tkp7256@aol.com writes: << Virginia, listers and Christopher: I would suggest that Christopher Boyd help us out. He seems to know more about Manor than anyone I have ever met!!!! I know that the sign at the church said "Victory" as I have a photo of the same. Teresa Currie Blevins >> Hello, Booth Church is now called Victory. BUT, the name of the cemetery is still called Booth cemetery. (The story of why the name of the church was changed after all these long years is an interesting one. Originally the church was called Philadelphia.) At one time all of my immediate family were members of this church. When my Aunt Marguerite Griffin Booth was dying she requested that she be laid out in front of the altar instead of the funeral home or her residence. It was the first time that I had ever heard of this being done. Her son-in-law, Julius Daniel stayed the night with her. When I was growing up in Manor there was a fence around the cemetery to keep the livestock out. The black cemetery was separated from the white cemetery by that fence. Few of those black graves are marked. I don't know if the black cemetery is also called Booth or not. I grew up loving to explore the cemeteries my kinfolk were buried in: Booth, Mount Olive, Camp Branch Providence, Camp Branch Holiness, and New Prospect. All of these located around the Manor area. I remember being in Booth cemetery as a young boy by myself. I startled a long black snake which crawled into a hole beside a grave cover slab. For some reason it left an indelible memory which I have never forgot. I can still recall which grave it was all these years gone. Camp Branch Holiness at one time had a fence around it also. I was in the cemetery with my grandmother, Sarah Ella White Boyd, as a small boy. We had been at my grandfather William Arthur Boyd's grave visiting. There was a rosebush in bloom and I started to pick a rose. She told me not to pick it because I would faint before I could get out the cemetery gate. (She also told me that if a bird built a nest with any of your hair that you would have a headache.) Whoa, I think I have memories about all of those cemeteries. For the cause, Christopher