Clarks Methodist Cemetery
Oswego, Sumter County, South Carolina, USA
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Clarks Church was the largest of the churches established in the Oswego section of the Old Sumter District. Early circuit riders, sent out by the Boston Episcopal Society, and French Huguenots who came to the area from the French Settlement at Georgetown, SC established the first Clarks Church. The church no doubt got its name from James Allen Clark who moved to South Carolina from Virginia before 1800. He owned land from Rocky Bluff Swamp to Swimming Pens. During this period both white and black parishioners attended Clarks Methodist Church. In 1856 the congregations of several small area churches decided to combine their memberships. Congregations of Clarks, Sardis, Lodebar, and part of Old Remberts churches formed a more centrally located church which was named Bethel Methodist Church.
After Emancipation, the trustees of Bethel Methodist sold one acre of the old Clarks Church land for $10.00 to the trustees of Clarks Colored Methodist Church. Today that church is the Clark United Methodist Church, with a proud 200+ year history.
Following the post-Emancipation land sale, an approximately 1/2 acre nearby graveyard remained under Bethel Methodist Church ownership and control. Today (2020), that 1/2 acre is a triangle shaped wooded lot between Hwy 401 and McCoy Road. There is evidence of several gravesites. Those persons are memorialized as best possible considering the decayed state of some headstones.
Clarks Church was the largest of the churches established in the Oswego section of the Old Sumter District. Early circuit riders, sent out by the Boston Episcopal Society, and French Huguenots who came to the area from the French Settlement at Georgetown, SC established the first Clarks Church. The church no doubt got its name from James Allen Clark who moved to South Carolina from Virginia before 1800. He owned land from Rocky Bluff Swamp to Swimming Pens. During this period both white and black parishioners attended Clarks Methodist Church. In 1856 the congregations of several small area churches decided to combine their memberships. Congregations of Clarks, Sardis, Lodebar, and part of Old Remberts churches formed a more centrally located church which was named Bethel Methodist Church.
After Emancipation, the trustees of Bethel Methodist sold one acre of the old Clarks Church land for $10.00 to the trustees of Clarks Colored Methodist Church. Today that church is the Clark United Methodist Church, with a proud 200+ year history.
Following the post-Emancipation land sale, an approximately 1/2 acre nearby graveyard remained under Bethel Methodist Church ownership and control. Today (2020), that 1/2 acre is a triangle shaped wooded lot between Hwy 401 and McCoy Road. There is evidence of several gravesites. Those persons are memorialized as best possible considering the decayed state of some headstones.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 69778
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