Hi Guys: Buck is right in what he says. I have some details about this cemetery and church that is really not associated. (but kind of is). My grandfathers sister, Gertrude Estelle Compton, married Thomas Henderson Stuart, all, in and of Greenwood. I just got off the telephone with the son of Thomas Henderson Stuart who repeated the following history as he gave to me last summer. A short pencil is much better than a long memory ....... remember that ! Here's what he said to me...again: ############## My grandfather, (Thomas Henderson Stuart's father), gave the land away for this cemetery to "the community" about 1850. It now belongs to an association which "keeps it up". The Bethlehem Cemetery was already there and in place when the Methodist Church built in what is now the cemetery grounds. (This specifically would be inside the front and slightly to the left of the entrance). The church really didn't have any association with the cemetery. In fact, they had a school there at one time. That Church, the Coronaca Methodist Church, has since moved to Coronaca. The school was actually before my time. The reason why I know this church was moved is because my uncle and his wife were married in the Baptist Church because they were moving the Methodist Church at the time and that was around 1902. Later, we sold, which really amounted to "giving", about four additional acres of our place to add to the space of the cemetery to make it bigger. I asked about any Collins he might remember. He said. "I knew some of them that are buried there...they lived two or three miles below the cemetery and then there was W. A. Collins who used to live there in Coronaca; might have had some money. His wife's name was Mitty (Middy?). ################ My Great Grandfather (William Berry Compton) and wife P. Alice Day Compton and some of their relatives (all formerly of Laurens County) are buried there at this cemetery. A special place for me. My first visit was one year ago, almost to the day. I want to go back. So who ever asked this question, thanks for forcing me to make a call to get the whole story again...and this time I wrote it down! And thanks for caring and ....thanks Now, I'll go back to lurking ! Charlie > -----Original Message----- > From: H.B. Free [mailto:hfree@awod.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:09 PM > To: SCGREENW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SCGREENW] Bethlehem Cemetery > > > I don't think there was ever a Church associated with it. There is a > Bethlehem Methodist Church in Coronaca but, to the best of my > knowledge, it > has always been a community cemetery. > Buck. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Suzanne Collins Matson <SCMATSON@aol.com> > To: <SCGREENW-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:14 PM > Subject: [SCGREENW] Bethlehem Cemetery > > > > Posted on: Greenwood Co. SC Queries > > Reply Here: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Greenwood/16 > > > > Surname: Collins > > ------------------------- > > > > Was there a church associated with Bethlehem Cemetery at some time? If > > so, what was the denomination? The cemetery is located on Hwy 246 near > > the intersection of Hwy 246 and Hwy 72 just east of Coronaca. > > Many of my Collins line are buried there. > > > > > > ============================== > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >

Charlie: Was the cousin you referred to, the son of Thomas Henderson Stuart (as a small boy I remember him as "T.H." and he drove a the Coronaca school bus), Charles Stuart. If so tell him Buck Free said hello. Buck. ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Compton <ccompton@coosavalley.net> To: <SCGREENW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:55 PM Subject: RE: [SCGREENW] Bethlehem Cemetery > Hi Guys: > Buck is right in what he says. I have some details about this cemetery and > church that is really not associated. (but kind of is). > My grandfathers sister, Gertrude Estelle Compton, married Thomas Henderson > Stuart, all, in and of Greenwood. I just got off the telephone with the son > of Thomas Henderson Stuart who repeated the following history as he gave to > me last summer. A short pencil is much better than a long memory ....... > remember that ! Here's what he said to me...again: > > ############## > My grandfather, (Thomas Henderson Stuart's father), gave the land away for > this cemetery to "the community" about 1850. It now belongs to an > association which "keeps it up". The Bethlehem Cemetery was already there > and in place when the Methodist Church built in what is now the cemetery > grounds. (This specifically would be inside the front and slightly to the > left of the entrance). The church really didn't have any association with > the cemetery. In fact, they had a school there at one time. That Church, > the Coronaca Methodist Church, has since moved to Coronaca. The school was > actually before my time. The reason why I know this church was moved is > because my uncle and his wife were married in the Baptist Church because > they were moving the Methodist Church at the time and that was around 1902. > Later, we sold, which really amounted to "giving", about four additional > acres of our place to add to the space of the cemetery to make it bigger. > > > I asked about any Collins he might remember. He said. "I knew some of them > that are buried there...they lived two or three miles below the cemetery and > then there was W. A. Collins who used to live there in Coronaca; might have > had some money. His wife's name was Mitty (Middy?). > > ################ > > > My Great Grandfather (William Berry Compton) and wife P. Alice Day Compton > and some of their relatives (all formerly of Laurens County) are buried > there at this cemetery. A special place for me. My first visit was one year > ago, almost to the day. I want to go back. So who ever asked this question, > thanks for forcing me to make a call to get the whole story again...and this > time I wrote it down! And thanks for caring and ....thanks > > Now, I'll go back to lurking ! > > Charlie > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: H.B. Free [mailto:hfree@awod.com] > > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:09 PM > > To: SCGREENW-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [SCGREENW] Bethlehem Cemetery > > > > > > I don't think there was ever a Church associated with it. There is a > > Bethlehem Methodist Church in Coronaca but, to the best of my > > knowledge, it > > has always been a community cemetery. > > Buck. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Suzanne Collins Matson <SCMATSON@aol.com> > > To: <SCGREENW-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:14 PM > > Subject: [SCGREENW] Bethlehem Cemetery > > > > > > > Posted on: Greenwood Co. SC Queries > > > Reply Here: > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Greenwood/16 > > > > > > Surname: Collins > > > ------------------------- > > > > > > Was there a church associated with Bethlehem Cemetery at some time? If > > > so, what was the denomination? The cemetery is located on Hwy 246 near > > > the intersection of Hwy 246 and Hwy 72 just east of Coronaca. > > > Many of my Collins line are buried there. > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > > > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > >