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
----- 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 > > Victoria: The present cemetery at First United Methodist Church in Bennettsville, SC does not contain any remains. The cemetery was originally located about 20 yards north of the present cemetery in a parking lot behind the church. The headstones in the original cemetery were moved to Oak Ridge Cemetery in the early 1950s when the parking lot was paved. The Kinney Foundation had the stones brought back and placed in the present location. They were placed in the original order as they were in the original cemetery behind the church. The iron fence surrounding the present cemetery was around the original cemetery. It was sold but the Kinney foundation bough it back and tried to reconstruct the cemetery in the original configeration. Hope this helps. Jerry Kendall