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Corrections to Grave Markers Removed From Fellowship Cemetery

February 5, 2013 Front Page Comments Off

Regarding the Fellowship Cemetery story that appeared in the Carrier on Jan. 30, Mrs. JoAnn Wilson does not have any future burial plots reserved.
Also, the rule changes as to how the plots could be marked out were in reference to a letter her cousin Coretha Russell received. While there have been rule changes, Mrs. Wilson did not receive any letters from the board of trustees for the cemetery; she was relating an incident that happened to her cousin Coretha who received the letter. This reporter misunderstood and thought she meant that both she and her cousin received a letter, but only Mrs. Russell received a letter.
Mrs. Wilson’s photographs were taken near a major holiday, but it might have been closer to Christmas than Thanksgiving. It was after her cousin had received the letter about mid-December from the board of trustees asking her to remove some of the markers from her family member’s gravesites, and Mrs. Wilson then went to the cemetery to try to document some of what was happening.
Apologies to Mrs. Wilson for the mistakes.

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Some Grave Markers Removed From Fellowship Cemetery

January 29, 2013 Front Page Comments Off

Until a few years ago, there was no charge for a plot in the Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near Sirmans, because, like small, rural church cemeteries everywhere, everyone who was eventually buried there was a church member, a relative of a church member, or someone somehow connected with the church or a church member. The cemetery itself, with some graves dating back to the 1800’s, was kept up mainly on donations.
“That little church used to have many members,” said Jimmy Holden, who lives across from Fellowship Primitive Baptist Church, where he has been a member since he was ten. He has also served on the Church’s Board of Trustees for the last 12 or 15 years. His father, Bert Holden, is the pastor. Read more

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