----- Original Message ----- From: "Victoria" <vproc@ix.netcom.com> To: <SCMARLBO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:45 PM Subject: [SCMARLBO-L] First UMC cemetery > Hi y'all, > > Added to the Marlboro County SCGenWeb site is a cemetery > survey, together with photographs, of the First United Methodist > Church in Bennettsville, contributed by Mike and Bushy Hartman. > <http://www.rootsweb.com/~scmarlbo/cemeteries/FirstUMC_cem.html> > > Many, if not all, of the tombstones in this cemetery were listed > as being in Oak Ridge Cemetery in the published 1984 Marlboro > Cemetery book but you can see from the photographs that this > small churchyard cemetery could not be Oak Ridge. > > Does anyone know the scoop on this? Thanks for any insights! > > Victoria > > Victoris: Additional information about the cemetery. The stones wree brought back about 15 years ago. The original cemetery was on the same side of the church just a few yards north of the present cemetery. The original has been paved over. I have a 1911 post card of the church in which you can see at least one of the tombstones in the original cemetery. I will be happy to share a copy of it. Jerry

Many, many thanks, Jerry, for explaining the puzzle of the tombstones and for sharing the lovely postcard of the church. With your permission, I will add your notes to the web page for the cemetery, so that researchers not on this list will know what happened, and, I will of course, add the beautiful postcard. Thank you so much! Victoria