The Bethel Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Cemetery
Garden Fairfield & Vanderhorst Streets
Winnsboro, South Carolina
OLD CEMETERY
Bethel Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
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The cemetery occupies the site, on Fairfield Street, of the first
meeting house of Bethel Church which was incorporated December,
1823, by the S.C. Legislature. The wooden meeting house was
built on lot number 174 of the Town Plat of Winnsboro. The
property had been bought from Hugh Barkley, a veteran of the War
of 1812, who died in 1836 and us buried here. Originally affiliated
with the Associate Presbytery of the Carolinas, in 1842 under the
guidance of the Rev. Thomas Ketchin, Bethel became affiliated with
the Associate Reformed Synod of the South.
Pastors who served in the original meeting house were:
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Rev. James
Lyle
1825-1834 |
In 1873 a new house of worship was built across the street on land acquired from George H. McMaster. Among the earliest graves are those of relatives and descendants of Covenanters and Seceders, dissenters from the Church of Scotland who had immigrated to America to escape religious persecution.
