Greenwood County · Marker 24-05

Tabernacle Cemetery

Marker 1: S.C. Hwy. 254, SE of Cokesbury

Front inscription

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.

County
Greenwood
Region
Upstate
City or vicinity
Cokesbury
Year approved
1961
Erected by
Robert A. Waller and John McKellar Reynolds Chapters, United Daughters of the Confederacy
Coordinates
34.266333, -82.187533

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