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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
Rev. Thomas
Ketchin
1844-1851
Rev. Charles Bowen
Betts 1855-1869
Rev. John McClintock Todd
1872-1879 |
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. |
