> > My gg grandfather, John Jones, was a farmer and a Methodist minister. I > ran across a reference to him (and his father James) as tenters when there > was the Beauty Spot encampment, and I was so intrigued by this idea of > people actually having tents and camping at camp meeting time that I > thought I would send along the following quotation regarding who was there. > This list is from a book by Hamer on Beauty Spot. Hamer also makes > reference to a plat of the grounds, made by Capt. P. L. Breeden, on > November 14, 1853. I would also love to see this if anyone ever runs into > it. Hi, I was told thirty years ago by a family informant that some of my Dunn ancestors were buried at the Beauty Spot Church in Marlboro Co. In a 1978 letter from Elizabeth C. Drake, who published so many of the Marlboro Co. cemetery records, she stated: "Beauty Spot was so named by settlers from Md., who thought it such a lovely place, they gave it the name. It is ... located between Bennettsville & McColl, and off to the left. There was an old cemetery in the area, with only a few graves visible now. On [the] road to McColl, and before Tatum, is another cemetery called Beauty Spot. It is well kept and several people [are] buried there." Can you tell me anything more about the book on Beauty Spot, when written? To which one of the above locations does it refer? Can anyone better identify the location of these two sites? Was there a church; what denomination; does it still exist? Does anyone have any information on any cemetery markers at either site? Any additional information on Beauty Spot appreciated. Ed Dunn