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          Dothan Methodist Church Cemetery

         See also 1955 survey of Dothan Methodist Church Cemetery

Tombstone Photograph contributed by Phil Price, 17 Jun 2002

Mr. Price notes:
"I have been searching for years for my Miranda McKenzie Price Jackson. My mother (d) had told me that my ggf's mother was buried at Dothan Cemetery but it wasn't on the list and I had about given up on finding her. I found her headstone behind the Sellers plot, next to the wall, close to the 'Sarah Ann wife of Hugh P. Price' head stone.

Miranda's head stone reads:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MIRANDA JACKSON
Born Aug 15, 1816
Died Sept 22, 1864
(computer enhanced photo of tombstone)
 

March 2002 partial survey (Additions since the 1955 survey) with photographs
contributed by Sheila Berry, 29 Mar 2002.

Dothan Church Cemetery

Survey by Sheila Berry, March 2002 


NOTE: This is on the brick wall that surrounds the cemetery:
Swinton Legare Bethea 1879----1932    
AS A TRIBUTE TO THE GODLY 
AND HONORABLE LIVES OF HIS PARENTS 
AND GRANDPARENTS, HE PROVIDED FOR 
THE RESTORATION AND MAINTENANCE
OF THIS CHURCH AND CEMETERY.

Memorial plaque photo by Sheila Berry, 27 March 2002

Fitzhugh Lee Bethea 7/1/1889-7/3/1971    A LOYAL HUSBAND AND FATHER
Sarah W. Bethea 1/3/1894-5/16/1974
A.W. "Red" Bethea son of Fitzhugh Lee & Bonnie Keen Bethea 
6/20/1916-9/13/1999
Clemson A&M B.S. 1938, Colorado A&M M.S. 1945, Lt. Colonel Army Air Corps
WWII in North Africa & European Theaters, District Commander VFW 1953-1954,
Post Commander Post 6091  1952, S.C. House of Representatives 1961-1966,
US Chamber of Commerce 1959-1960, Board of Directors,Dillon County Farm
Bureau,Life Long Farmer,Rotarian,Member main street & Dothan UMC,IPTAY
member 61 years, Football teams Clemson A&M  & Colorado A&M . married to
Jo-Anne Dellinger daughter of Lester E.& Saidee Blanchard Dellinger 
9/25/1928
Children: Kitty, Buddy, Shannon, Lesa, Cammie and Fitzhugh

Caroline Elizabeth Gaddy McLean 5/16/1875-8/17/1962 married Michael Mims
2/25/1912
Lawrence Carl McLean 9/16/1898-10/6/1975

Catherine Elizabeth Bethea 7/14/1869-9/17/1951 daughter of Annie Godbold
and Edwin A.Bethea

Rev.George Emory Edwards 11/16/1873-12/27/1938
Julia Moore Edwards 5/13/1877-6/28/1968

Annie Laurie Harrell Manning 1883-1971
Eli Bethea Manning 7/15/1872-9/7/1959

Eugenia Smith Bethea 1/7/1879-8/15/1968
J.Frank Bethea 2/10/1876-5/30/1951
Mary Ethel Bethea 1/6/1903-7/7/1979
Thomas Howard Bethea 8/29/1901-12/14/1981

Truss B.Thompson Jr. 5/12/1912-11/7/1955
Ella Braddy Thompson 9/21/1888-1/3/1945
Russ B.Thompson 4/12/1889-10/26/1947

Mary Lutie Bethea 9/11/1886-1/3/1961
Robert Lee McLaurin 9/6/1907-4/3/1970
Duncan Bethea McLaurin Capt.U.S.Marine Corps. VIETNAM 10/28/1941-7/18/1988
William Lamar Bethea 8/19/1908-2/24/1972
Lillie Hotchkiss Bethea 10/28/1902-11/6/1976

Ethel May Bethea Cooper 
daughter of Dr. J. Frank Bethea & Hannah Jane Bethea
born Dillon County S.C. 2/21/1884 
died Mullins S.C. 4/14/1947 
married John Purley Cooper 1/22/1908      
HER LIFE RADIATED CHRISTIAN LOVE,
KINDNESS LOYALTY,STRENGTH,FAITH,AND PATIENCE.
SHE WAS CONTANT IN HER DEVOTION TO THE RIGHTEOUS 
CAUSES, AND EVER MINDFUL OF THE NEEDS OF OTHERS.
John Purley Cooper 
son of Noah Bryant Cooper & Lucinda Jenerette Cooper
born Mullins S.C. 6/30/1881 died Mullins 6/27/1963    
THEIR CHILDREN
John Jr.Franklin Bethea,Noah Bryant,Hannah Bethea,Flora Ethel.    
married Emma Sadie Parker 6/28/1948    
HE WAS GENTLE IN MANNER,DEEP IN
AFFECTION,FRIENDSHIP,AND CONVICTION.A LEADER IN CHURCH,CIVIC,
CULTURAL,ECONOMIC AND PHILANTHROPIC AFFAIRS.A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN.
Emma Sadie Parker Cooper 
daughter of Samuel Allen & Emma Jane Smart Parker
born Murrells Inlet S.C.10/16/1889- died Mullins S.C.7/16/1969
PERCEPTIVE OF BEAUTY & LOYAL IN HEART. A GRACIOUS LADY.

Clifford H.Hardy 5/11/1925-3/7/1987
Mary MacLeod Bethea Hardy 9/6/1895-7/2/1971
Benjamin Franklin Hardy M.D. 8/31/1887-9/21/1969

Alpheus Victor Bethea 5/6/1886-2/19/1954   
CHRIST'S LIFE HIS CODE, CHRIST'S
CROSS HIS CREED.
Martha Rebecca Cooper Bethea 3/25/1886-8/14/1970   
HER CHILDREN RISE
UP AND CALL HER BLESSED.HER HUSBAND ALSO PRAISES HER.

Martha Rebecca Bethea Williams daughter of Bass Partridge & A.V.Bethea Jr.
11/26/1949-10/15/1999   her daughter Susan B.& Jennifer C.Goodwin
married Donald Edward Williams 7/16/1995
Donald Edward Williams son of Annie L. Harbison & E.Q.Williams Sr. 5/10/1944
his daughter      Jessica Ann

Alpheus Victor Bethea Jr. son of Martha Rebecca Cooper & Alpheus 
Sr.12/23/1916-
11/27/1983    married 9/6/1941 to
Bess Partridge daughter of Ella Finley & Jessie Troup Partridge 2/6/1915
their children: Alpheus Victor III, Robert Partridge,& Martha Rebecca

Infant son of Merry Farmer & A.Victor Bethea III 10/14/1968

Colonel Preston Bethea Hardy 9/3/1921-3/28/1985  married to
Mary Rogers Hardy 10/13/1920     their children: Mary MacLeod 5/21/1942,
Preston Jr.8/2/1945,Timothy Glenn 10/29/1952,Coline Jenelle 2/4/1954
Benjamin Franklin HardyJr. 3/22/1919-9/22/1989   married 5/12/1941   to
Jacqueline Allen 3/28/1920     their children: Emily Shelton 10/25/1942,
Josephine Elizabeth 3/4/1947,Patricia Allen 3/7/1949,Ann-Franklin 12/5/1950,
Jacqueline Allen Jr. 10/25/1952

Edgar Frank Bostick son of Harriett Foxworth & Paul Bungah Bostick 
1/28/1911-
9/23/1992    HE RAN BEAUTIFULLY AND WITH PRESEVERANCE THE RACE THAT
WAS SET BEFORE HIM.
Lucinda  Bethea Bostick daughter of Martha Cooper & Alpheus Victor Bethea
1/5/1914   married 11/27/1937      1 daughter  Martha Bethea

Preston Lang Bethea II 10/27/1924-9/17/1971
Preston Lang Bethea 4/10/1870-4/15/1944

Frank H.Smith 7/27/1910-7/4/1976
Louise E.Smith 11/26/1912-8/9/1988

James W.McCutcheon 2/2/1906-3/3/1969
Margaret E.McCutcheon 11/10/1908-

David William Galloway 7/27/1889-2/13/1950    "Daddy"
Zimri Ellen  S.C.Tec5 62    ABN Inf.BN WWII 7/31/1910-2/23/1964

Mary Tarte Manship 2/17/1900-12/10/1987
Eugene Hampton Tarte 10/4/1904-4/5/1967
John Hamilton Tart 1/8/1860-1/1/1928
Carrie Elizabeth Tart 8/20/1865-6/16/1951    THEY HAVE GONE TO BE WITH
HIM WHOM THEY HAVE SAVED.

Clyde B. Tart 5/1/1902
Mildred L.Tart 10/31/1926-1/1/1962

Tombstone photo by Sheila Berry, March 2002

David N.Bethea 3/19/1845-2/12/1901 son of Rev.Samuel J.& Mary "Rogers"
Bethea
Anna Jane Sellers 8/11/1850-1/17/1889   daughter of William W.& Martha Ann
Bethea Sellers married 12/25/1867    to David N.Bethea

Kate Jones 11/21/1861-1/17/1952  daughter of Thomas & Sarah Nichols    
wife of
David N.Bethea married 11/28/1895

Lawrence Harrell Kilgo 5/16/1906-9/24/1981

James Earle "Red" Bethea Jr. 9/17/1922-6/25/2000    PFC U.S.Army WWII
Elizabeth Manning "BeBe" Bethea 7/9/1924    married 9/8/1945
George A.Bethea 11/18/1821-1/2/1871

William John Scully 5/21/1915-3/11/1970  married Marie Gibson Bethea
11/25/1949
Marie Gibson Bethea 1/4/1895-1/13/1985   COLONIAL DAMES XVII CENTURY
James Earle Bethea  5/6/1893-6/29/1943  married Sara Marie Gibson 10/15/1919
Andrew D.Bethea 7/13/1910-4/23/1974
Mary Sprunt Bethea 2/1/1904-7/5/1964 married 1/26/1924
Vernon Cogswell 4/1/1898-7/29/1969
William Thad Bethea 3/11/1896-1/6/1972
Oriana Berry Bethea 8/23/1898-7/14/1983

David Addison Hamilton 6/1/1891-7/27/1959    married 12/25/1910
Sallie McKenzie Hamilton 7/25/1889-6/18/1970  A MOST GRACIOUS LADY

Robert H.Martin Sr. 1/13/1918-7/16/1970   S.C.   PFC U.S. Army WWII
Mildred Estelle Martin 1925-1995

Palmer Rogers 4/5/1887-12/16/1964   INTO THY HANDS O LORD

Charles C.Seals 5/7/1907-3/11/1966 N.C.PFC 194  WWII Quartermaster Co.
Mary J.Seals 10/31/1876-8/17/1959

Otto R.Edwards 5/19/1893-3/16/1964 N.C.CPL U.S.Army WWII
Margaret Sellers Edwards 8/14/1900-3/27/1977 daughter of Benjamin Bethea &
Norma Watson Sellers
Ruth Sellers Smith Watson 10/17/1902-5/16/1990  daughter of Norma Watson &
Benjamin Bethea Sellers  married Clayton Smith 10/7/1939

Melletto Floy Bethea 12/26/1892-11/9/1953
Frances Marion 9/21/1892-8/24/1944
Bessie Stanton 1905-1990
Sara Marie Stanton 4/29/1923-7/19/1991

Augusta Bethea wife of H.H.Humphrey 11/20/1869-5/17/1957

Annie R.Sellers 11/23/1878-5/27/1956   daughter of Maggie Mace & John C.
Sellers    SHE LONGEST LIVES WHO MOST TO OTHERS GIVES HERSELF FORGOTTING

Hannah Gardner Wallace 3/11/1861-10/25/1955

Lizzie Jones Long 11/11/1877-8/28/1954   Children: 
Nellie,Ada,Ernest,Earl,Hazel,
James
Earl Jones Long 6/10/1908-6/11/2001
Nancy Long Jarrett 12/5/1948-7/23/1997   OUR PRECIOUS DAUGHTER

William A.McQueen 3/7/1881-11/7/1957
Sarah J.McQueen 11/16/1883-1/23/1968   IN HIS WILL IS OUR PEACE

Everett M.Johnson 1/2/1913-6/7/1961   HE LIVES WITH US IN MEMORY AND
WILL FOREVERMORE.
Joseph C.Johnson 1/4/1889-2/1/1958
Jennie M.Johnson 7/18/1895-12/28/1989    GONE FROM OUR HOME BUT NOT
FROM OUR HEARTS.
Carl L.Johnson 7/23/1905-1/16/1976
Ivey Johnson 1/4/1860-7/4/1940
Ella Johnson 11/3/1866-4/12/1952

F.Monroe Campbell Sr.1886-1959
Cora J.Campbell 1891-1981

Photographs contributed by Carolyn Kellar, 2001

Please note the erosion, in just 10 years' time, of this old wooden marker for
George and Mary Jane Norton Herring:
1989 photo | 1999 photo

1955 survey of Dothan Methodist Church Cemetery
 

       Dothan Cemetery

    Inscription provided by Michael Cole, 1998.

  • John W. McKENZIE, b. Nov. 6, 1837 - d. May 18, 1904
    A kind wife mournes in thee a husband lost;
    The poor, a friend who felt what friendship cost.

    Inscriptions provided by Victoria Proctor, 1997.

  • W. W. SELLERS, b. March 27, 1818 - d. March 28, 1902
  • Martha BETHEA SELLERS, b. Dec. 2, 1821 - d. Feb. 2, 1893
  • Allen McKENZIE, 1850 - 1923
  • Mary, Wife of Allen McKENZIE, b. April 6, 1855 - d. May 15, 1893
  • James McKENZIE, 1852 - 1914
  • Eli H. McKENZIE, March 10, 1844 Feb. 17, 1909
  • Dolly, His Wife, Nov. 8, 1851 - Juy 13, 1942
  • Robert Chauncey, Infant Son of David and Frances McKENZIE, b. Nov. 16, 1888 - d. July 17, 1889
  • Mary F., Wife of Allen McKENZIE, b. Feb. 28, 1858 - d. May 29, 1921
  • B.F. McKENZIE, b. June 16, 1854 - d. Dec. 30, 1920
  • Lizzie, Wife of Frank McKENZIE, b. April 30, 1850 - d. Jan. 7, 1906

    • JACKSON Inscriptions provided by David Jackson, 1997.

  • Alice Wagstaff Jackson................................1863......................5-28-1939
  • Debby Jackson....................................................................... ..8-26-1879
  • Dora D. Jackson..........................................2-4-1866.................7-25-1914
  • Flora Jackson..............................................3-19-1860...............10-10-1936
  • H.H. Jackson...............................................No dates
  • Nancy McCormick Jackson...........................9-28-1826...............11-16-1900
  • Reuben B. Jackson..............................4-20-1824...............8-15-1900
  • Sarah Ann Jackson Price...............................Age: 80 years