The Old Tabernacle Cemetery Cokesbury, Greenwood County SC

Tabernacle Cemetery

Inscription. [Original Marker] Site of Old Tabernacle Methodist Church. Buried here are Confederate Generals Martin Witherspoon Gary, Nathan George Evans and other Confederate officers and soldiers. [Second Marker] 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 by Robert A Walker and John McKellan Reynolds Chapters, United Daughters of the Confederacy. (Marker Number 24-5.) Marker series. This marker is included in the United Daughters of the Confederacy marker series. Location. 34° 15.98′ N, 82° 11.252′ W. Marker is in Hodges, South Carolina, in Greenwood County. Marker is on Cokesbury Road (South Carolina Route 254), on the left when traveling east. Click for map. North of the marker is a short paved area. This is the start of Tabernacle Cemetery Road. The "road" follows the tree line south and enters the woods behind the business on Cokesbury Road. Once you enter the woods, the cemetery will come into view Here was the gravesite for Gen Martin W. Gary, who was quite famous locally: And for Gen Evans: