Tabernacle Cemetery
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1000 feet east is Tabernacle Cemetery on the site of Tabernacle Methodist Church and Tabernacle Academy. Buried here are Generals M. W. Gary & N. G. Evans and other Confederate veterans. From Tabernacle Academy organized in 1820 by Stephen Olin developed Mount Ariel and Cokesbury Conference School.
Erected in 1961 by the Robert A. Waller and John McKellar Reynolds Chapters, United Daughters of the Confederacy Site of Old Tabernacle Methodist Church. Buried here are Confederate Generals Martin Witherspoon Gary, Nathan George Evans and other Confederate officers and soldiers. Erected in * Replaced a marker erected in 1937 by American Legion Post No. 20 of Greenwood.
This was the first marker erected after the formal establishment of the South Carolina Historical Marker Program. 1961 by the Robert A. Waller and John McKellar Reynolds Chapters, United Daughters of the Confederacy
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