OLD TABERNACLE CEMETERY - FEBRUARY 10, 2003

Billie Hitt reads the sign for Old Tabernacle. Most of the letters have fallen off.  Mr. Jake Bryan proceeds on into the area where the tombstones begin.   There are a lot of sandstones marking graves.  When Shed Hill and Rebecca Davis did a cemetery census, they recorded 37 tombstones. At one place, we could count 6 graves in a row that were marked with sandstones.  Some markers have been pushed aside by the timber growing in the graveyard.  Members of the Parker Family came in in 2002 and did some massive cleaning. You have to be careful walking because of the stumps that were left. Billie and Mr. Jake agree that in the late spring, "Roundup" needs to be brought in and heavily sprayed over the whole area to remove the stumps and saw-briars.  Then later in the year, another application applied.

This is a good view of the scrub that needs to be sprayed.
 
 

This stone is the oldest that was found of the marked stones.  In the background, you can see how some of the stones are leaning, plus note the wonderful job that was done on cutting out the bigger undergrowth.

This double marker is for Mr and Ms W. C. Hallum.  In the Davis Census, a death date is not listed for Mrs. Hallum. Someone has had it added and it is still clean.
 
 

Two Confederate graves are marked. Both have the newer foot stone type marker in front of the original markers.

Another general view of the stones in Old Tabernacle. It is just a little over a mile from Mr. Jake Bryan's home and is next to the old Pittsboro-Coffeeville Road.  The land belongs to Martha Belle Hubbard.

This is an example of serveral of the unusually shaped stones in the cemetery.  This is for Luella Bryant Johnson.