GOOD HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CEMETERY, Anderson County, SC A.K.A. Version 2.3, 6-Nov-2006, A094.TXT, A094 **************************************************************** REPRODUCING NOTICE: ------------------- These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, or presentation by any other organization, or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Paul M Kankula - nn8nn Seneca, SC, USA Oconee County SC GenWeb Coordinator Oconee County SC GenWeb Homestead http://www.rootsweb.com/~scoconee/oconee.html Oconee County SC GenWeb Tombstone Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~scoconee/cemeteries.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/southcarolina/oconee.html **************************************************************** DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Dec-2003 DATAFILE LAYOUT : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Dec-2003 G.P.S. MAPPING . : Gary L. Flynn at (visit above website) in Dec-2003 HISTORY WRITE-UP : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Dec-2003 TRANSCRIPTION .. : (Partial) by Wendy Campbell at wcampbell4@hotmail.com CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ Northwest of Iva. #1 A096 Church = Latitude N 34 19.267 x Longitude W 82 41.800 (estimated) #2 & #3 A094 Church = Latitude N 34 19.106 x Longitude W 82 41.692 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ From memorial marker: This cemetery, dating from the early 19th century, is at the third site of Good Hope Presbyterian Church, founded in 1789. A frame sanctuary was built here in 1856 during the tenure of Rev. David Humphreys (d. 1869), who preached here 1821-1869 and was Good Hope's longest serving pastor. In 1909 the congregation moved to Iva, three miles east, and built a new brick sanctuary there. The sanctuary built here in 1856, the third to serve Good Hope, was demolished in 1924, years after the congregation moved to Iva, Rev. Richard Carter Ligon (1845-1906), buried here, was pastor of Good Hope 1876-1902; his son Rev. J. Frank Ligon was pastor 1947-49. The church cemetery also includes plots of the Beaty, McAlister, McMahan, McKee, and other early families. Pastors: John Simpson 1790-1807 David Humphreys 1821-1869 John Young Cater Ligon 1877-1902 W.S. Hamiter 1904-1910 o----------o The following list of members is from the History of the Good Hope Presbyterian Church, Iva, South Carolina, 1789-1989. Bicentennial Edition. Copyright @ 1989 by Good Hope Presbyterian Church, Iva, S.C. Dr. Lowry P. Ware authors this particular section. Next to the names, I have included dates of death, in brackets, as given by Penuel Price, Clerk of Session which is also in the History of Good Hope book. Submitted by George Price. MEMBERSHIP COMPILED IN APRIL 20 1844 BY PENUEL PRICE, CLERK OF SESSION: Adams, John Adams, Susan [d.1850] Baker, Lindsey Baker, Margaret Baker, Mary A. Baker, Nancy [d. 1857] Baker, Samuel H. Beatty j, Margaret Beatty Sen., Margaret Beatty, Ann Beatty, David Beatty, Elizabeth Beatty, Francis [d.1846] Beatty, John [d.1855] Beatty, Martha [d.1848] Beatty, Melinda Beatty, Sarah Beatty, Susan Carter, Elizabeth Christopher, Manerva J. Cunningham, Cath. Dunlap, Ann Dunlap, Matt. Howie, Elizabeth Howie, John Howie, Robert [d.1848] Jones, Mary M. Karr, Wm. J. Lesley, Esther Long, Charlotte Long, Joseph Long, Letty [d.1848] Madden, Elizabeth Magee, Elizabeth McAlister, Pamela McCullough, Andr.[d.1846] McCullough, Daniel McCullough, Elizabeth McCullough, Elizabeth McCullough, Louisa McKee, Ann McKee, Arc. [d.1852] McKee, Elizabeth McKee, Hezia. McKee, Margaret McKee, Martha McKee, Nancy McKee, Rebecca McKee, Rosy A. McKee, Sarah McKee, Wm. A. McMahan, Mary McMahan, Samuel Mecklin, Eliza. M. Mecklin, James G. [d.1856] Nelson, Amanda Nelson, Catherine [d.1846] Nelson, H.A.F. Nelson, Sarah Obryant, Andr. Obryant, Elvira Obryant, Jane Obryant, Joice Obryant, Wm. Pressly, Ann [d.1848] Price, H. P. Price, Jane Price, Penuel Prince, Jane Prince, Mark Reid, Andrew Reid, Mary Reid, Robert Saddler, Eliza. Saddler, Elizabeth M. Saddler, James Saddler, John F. [d.1857] Saddler, Priscilla [d.1857] Saddler, W.B. [d.1856] Simpson, Archibd. Simpson, Cath. E. Simpson, Louisa Simpson, Mary Simpson, Susanna Simpson, Thomas Steifel, Mary [d.1848] Tower, Sarah L. White, Eliza. White, Ezekiel White, Margaret White, Martha [d.1846] White, Sarah Ann Wiley, James Wiley, James jun. Wood, Margaret [d.1850] Yergin, Dorris Yergin, Jane E. Young, Elizabeth Young, John Young, Margaret Young, Margaret jun. o----------o THE FOLLOWING LIST IS TAKEN FROM THE HISTORY OF GOOD HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, IVA, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1789-1989. Bicentennial Edition. Copyright @ 1989 by Good Hope Presbyterian Church, Iva, S. C. Dr. Lowry P. Ware authored this portion of the history. NEW MEMBERSHIPS FOR THE YEARS 1845 TO 1857: 1845: Adams, Isaac M. Lesley, William McKee, Stephen J. Price, Margaret E Price, P. R. 1846: Addams, Elvira Addams, Bethiah Junking, Elizabeth Reid, J. H. 1847: Brown, John Hays, Mary Humphreys, Mary Pernel, Elizabeth Sadler, David Sadler, Jane Walker, Eloner Walker, James 1849: Adams, Preston L. Beatry, Thomas N. Beaty, Eliza. Jane Bozman, Sarah Ester Dunlap, John Hatton, Caroline Hatton, Eliza. Hatton, Melissa Howie, Melissa Howie, Nitha McAllister, William A. McBride, Mary Elizabeth McCullough, Margaret Adaline McKee, David Sadler, Mary Louisa Simpson, John Milton Simpson, Nancy Emily Walker, Mary Ann Walker, Samuel 1850 Adams, James Alexander Adams, John Ellison Beaty, Martha Jane Crofford, John A. Hutchinson, William (restored) McKee, Stuart McMahan, James Neal, William Robertson, Martha T. Robertson, Phebe Ann Sadler, David F. Sadler, James H. Young, Mrs. Sarah 1851 Taylor, Tolliver Taylor, Ann Elgin, Ann 1852 Long, Issac Jasper 1853 Stevenson, Amaziah 1854 Baker, Cornelia Beaty, Claudius S. Beaty, Eliza. Beaty, Margaret Beaty, Ruffus Beaty, Sarah T. Beaty, Wm. A. Boyd, Jane Brown, Sarah Hatton, George McDuffie Hatton, Priscilla Hatton, William McAllister, George W. McCullough, Rachel M. McGee, Jesse McKee, Isaac W. Prince, Martha Prince, Mary E. Sadler, Archibald T. Sadler, Joseph R. Sadler, Julia Sadler, M. Saraphina Sadler, Rufus E. Seawright, Andrew Seawright, Miss Elenor White, A. E. White, I. Cornelia Wright, Margaret E. Wright, Thomas B. 1855 Adams, Mrs. Mary McAllister, Obediah McClinkscales, Miss Essee Sherard, Mrs. Phebe Strange, W. P. 1856 McAllister, John A. Rice, Archibald W. Robertson, Mrs. Jane Sherard, William Yancy 1857 Sadler, Catherine L. o----------o A094 GOOD HOPE PRESBYTERIAN A239 ROBERTS PRESBYTERIAN No persons now living who can tell about the church. It is not known exactly when they were first organized. The names of the churches were not on the list of the General Assembly of the South Carolina Presbytery in 1789. Roberts was named for Col. Roberts of the American Revolution. It was on the road from Pendleton to Hamburg and the road from Anderson Court House to Andersonville, at the junction of Seneca and Tugaloo Rivers, 9 miles from Anderson Court House and 3 miles from Sloan's Ferry, near Devils Fork, Mountain Creek and Generostee. They may have been Big and Little Generostee Churches. Good Hope was organized near the same time...12 miles from Roberts and 6 or 7 miles from the Savannah River on head waters of Little Generostee and Rocky River. They shared the same ministers. The early settlers were Scotch & Irish from the northern portion of our country. Ministers: the Rev. James Gilliland, the Rev. Thomas Reese, the Rev. John Simpson. Simpson buried at Roberts. He died October 1807 (other sources have 1808). The Rev. Samuel Davis moved to N.C.; returned to S.C. Anderson District in 1821, then back to N.C. The Rev. James McElhenny died 4 October 1812 age 44; buried Stone Church. The Rev. Mr. Price came from James Island. The Rev. Thomas Dickson Baird b. 1773, Ireland. To U.S. in 1802. A blacksmith, he worked 3 years in Pennsylvania. In 1805 he went to Williamsburg Co., S.C. Ordained and installed as Pastor of Broadway Church near Verennes in May, 1913. In 1815 went to Newark, Ohio. The Rev. Richard B. Cater was born 1791. Beaufort to Greenville, then to Pendleton....then to Taledago, Alabama. The Rev. David Humphreys born 30 September 1793, Pendleton....appointed to visit Southwest tribes of Indians and returned from this mission in 1820. Members, under the influence of Gen. Andrew Pickens removed to near Oconee Station and united with Bethel Church under the care of Rev. Andrew Brown. Soon after, a colony left for the west. In 1837, 16 members moved to Chambers Co., Alabama. Other ministers at Roberts Church: W.H. Harris, B.D. DuPre, A.W. Ross, W. Carlile 1946-50. Supplied by Licentiates: J.C. Williams 1844-45, Joseph Gilbert. Members: Wm. C. McElroy united 1824 - became a Minister, moved to Virginia. He Married Harriet Simpson, daughter of Judge Simpson of Princeton, N.J. Wm. H. Harris united 1828, ordained 1836....to Carroll Co., Mississippi in 1845, died 1849. Married four times. John McLees united 1828, age 15. Ordained 1846. Robert McLees - ordained 1856. Died April 1866. John S. Wilbanks united 1856. To Arkansas 1866/67. David W. Humphreys to North Mississippi then back to S.C., then back to Mississippi. Hugh McLees From Good Hope: Robert H. Reid, son of Andrew Reid, Esq. Ruling Elder. To Georgia and Alabama then back to S.C. Isaac Jasper Long - to Arkansas Elders: James Hillhouse, Hugh Wilson, Robert Dickey, James Stephenson, Gilmer Henderson, Martin Allen 1820. TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife Simpson, G.W. b. October 12, 1777 d. May 29, 1831 Simpson, Sarah w/o G.W. Simpson b. January 15, 1776 d. January 30, 1835 o---------o Some of my wife's McCARLEYs were at Good Hope PC in the first half of the 19th century (when it was still out in the country), though most of that family remained at Roberts PC, where the family had been connected from its founding. Several GAMBRELL families, including that of Joel Bruton GAMBRELL (father of James Bruton GAMBRELL cited in the historical marker) removed from Anderson Dist., SC to Tippah Co., MS in abt 1843, and they were followed in that migratory path five years later by some McCARLEY families, including that headed by my wife's gggfather, Elias McCARLEY. The Elias McCARLEYs settled fairly near the GAMBRELLS and, like them, affiliated with Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in rural Tippah (now Union) Co., MS. [Elias McCARLEY had been reared on Big Generostee Creek, and his father and both gfathers had been elders at Roberts PC. Elias m Margaret Hester EARP, who was reared a bit further southwest, where her family were leaders in Ruhamah Methodist Church. We do not know if they were Presbyterians or Methodists after their marriage, but they were decidedly Baptist at least from their arrival in MS (and perhaps, in a compromise, were Baptists in SC bef moving to MS.] Elias and Margaret's eldest son, William Benjamin McCARLEY, m 7 Feb 1867 Tippah Co., MS, Mary L. "Molly" GAMBRELL, third child of George Vaughan GAMBRELL, brother and next-door neighbor of James Bruton GAMBRELL, presumably in Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church. If you are not familiar with Dr. James Bruton GAMBRELL of the marker, see the following: The Handbook of Texas Online GAMBRELL, JAMES BRUTON (1841-1921). James Bruton Gambrell, Baptist minister, teacher, and editor, the son of Joel Bruton and Jane (Williams) Gambrell, was born in Anderson County, South Carolina, on August 21, 1841. When he was four years old the family moved to northeastern Mississippi. Gambrell enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army in 1861 and served as a scout for Gen. Robert E. Lee'sqv Army of Northern Virginia. He fought in the battle of Gettysburg and was afterwards commissioned a captain and sent to scout in the western territory around Memphis, Tennessee. On a return trip for a conference with the Confederate War Department, he married Mary T. Corbell, on January 13, 1864. They eventually had nine children. After the war Gambrell enrolled in the University of Mississippi and became pastor of the Oxford Baptist Church. In 1877 he began editing the Baptist Record, the state paper of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, and in 1893 he was elected president of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He served at Mercer until December 1896, when he was elected superintendent of state missions for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Under the leadership of Gambrell and James Milton Carrollqv the federation of Baptist schools in Texas known as the Texas Baptist Education Commission was developed. In February 1910 Gambrell resigned as superintendent of state missions to become editor of the Baptist Standard,qv the state paper of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. At the time Gambrell assumed the editorship, the Standard was owned and operated by George W. Truett, Robert Cooke Buckner,qqv H. Z. Duke, C. D. Fine, and Gambrell, with Robert H. Coleman serving as business manager. During Gambrell's years as editor of the Baptist Record he had advocated private ownership of religious papers, but by the time he took over the Standard he had changed his mind, for he believed that private ownership led to self- aggrandizement of the editor and exploitation of the readers. Thus, when J. Frank Norrisqv resigned as editor and put the Standard up for sale in 1909, Gambrell joined the others to form a denominational ownership of the paper. Under this representative group, the paper was freed of a $30,000 debt, and ownership was transferred to the Baptist General Convention of Texas in March 1914. In 1912 Gambrell began teaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. In December 1914 he was elected general secretary of the Executive Board (missions and education) of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. At that time he resigned his positions with both the Standard and the seminary. He was secretary of the Consolidated Board for four years. He served four terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, from 1917 to 1920. In 1920 he accompanied Edgar Young Mullins, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, on a visit to European Baptist communities. During their European tour the two made a missionary survey of countries devastated by World War I.qv After his return from Europe, Gambrell suffered a heart attack in Fort Worth from which he never fully recovered. He died at home in Dallas on June 10, 1921, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists (4 vols., Nashville: Broadman, 1958-82). E. C. Routh, The Life Story of Dr. J. B. Gambrell (Oklahoma City, 1929). Presnall H. Wood and Floyd W. Thatcher, Prophets with Pens (Dallas: Baptist Standard, 1969). By: Travis L. Summerlin at rrcurlee@cox.ne on 29-Oct-2005