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REPRODUCING NOTICE: These electronic pages may only be reproduced for personal or 501(c) Not-For-Profit Society use. Use the following names, if, you would like to give any author compiling credit. AUTHORS: Paul M. Kankula-NN8NN & Gary L. Flynn-KE8FD *********************************************************************** 05-01-15 CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ Locate intersection of West Main Rd and Highway 8 in Easley. Drive (W). In 0.5 miles turn hard left (SE) onto Highway 8 (S 5th St). In 0.1 miles turn right (SW) onto Liberty Dr. In 0.3 miles turn right (SW) onto Old Liberty Rd. In 0.1 miles turn right (NW) onto Park Dr. In 0.3 miles turn right (N) onto Hagood Park Dr. In 0.1 miles turn left (W) onto Highland Rd. In 0.2 miles turn right (NW) onto Bannister St. In 0.2 miles turn left (SW) onto Blair St. In 0.1 miles turn right (NW) onto Lucky St. In 0.3 miles turn left onto Maple St. Cemetery is located on the corner of Maple & Low Ave Latitude N 34 49.981 x Longitude W 82 37.485 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ As of 8-Oct-2003, all the tombstones were broken from their base and laying on the ground. o----------o McKissick Memorial Methodist The first move to establish a Methodist Church started in the fall of 19ll, when a Preacher Yarborough set up a tent under the water tanks at the crest of Hill Street and held a lot of revival meetings. The converts from "Yarboroughs Meeting" organized Alice Methodist Church three months later, assembled at A.A. Meritt's at the end of Hill Street. This little house served as the meeting house for the Baptists and Methodist alike until the mill office building was erected. Then both denominations moved together to the two big upstairs rooms which was a school for the village for many years. In 1915 a white frame church building was to become the Methodists permanent house in the community when the Baptist part of the congregation moved to Park Street in the 1930's. The desire for a full-time preacher to serve Alice and Arial community became a reality in 1948 with the appointment of the Rev. E.P. Hammond as a pastor of the two churches. Soon afterwards a modern parsonage was erected, built in a large part, by volunteer labor from the two communities. An increased interest in the church led to a movement to remodel and enlarge the church building. The building program was finished under the pastorate of Rev. Harold T. Reeves with the addition of an education building. As a token of appreciation to the McKissick family for a memorial to the late Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Foster McKissick, the membership of the church voted in 1956 to change the name of the church from Alice Methodist to McKissick Memorial Methodist Church. Source: Easley Progress, November19, 1980. Contributed by: Anne Sheriff o----------o Alice Methodist Church began to have real "growing pains" in the mid-forties, having come through the depression with the loss of very few members, and now entering into a new period of prosperity. From its inception in 1912, the church had merely been a unit on the Easley Charge, sharing, not always satisfactorily, a pastor with Easley First Methodist Church, and more lately, having been a member of the first Church-Alice-Arial Charge, with worship services only scheduled twice a month, on alternate Sunday evening. The desire for a full-time pastor to serve the Alice and Arial communities became a reality in 1948 with the appointment of the Rev. R.P. Hammond as pastor of the two churches, and shortly thereafter a modern parsonage was erected, built in large part by volunteer labor from the two communities. A marked increase in interest was noted almost immediately, followed in due course by a movement to remodel and enlarge the church building. Carpeting, an organ, new stained glass windows, and modern lighting fixtures followed closely one after the other. The final phase of the building program was completed under the pastorate of Rev. Harold T. Reeves when an educational building including four class rooms, rest rooms, a complete kitchen, a fully equipped nursery, and a large social hall were added. Presently serving as pastor of McKissick Memorial is the Rev. Ralph T. Lowrimore, who in his first year at Alice has already received into the church 15 new members: B.H. Bowen, E.H. Atkins, J.B. Moore, W.P. Galloway, Lowell Southerland, Jack Turner, Mrs. B.H. Bowen, Mrs. E.H. Atkins, Mrs. W.P. Galloway, Mrs. Elizabeth Galloway McKinney, Mrs. Carnis B. Davis, "Bud" Gardo - these are some of the members of the Official Board. All the younger ones were born at Alice. All of the others have lived in the community from 25 to 45 years. Truly the tie between employer and employee is strong. o----------o McKissick Memorial Methodist Church stands as a symbol of the bond between management and employees at Alice Manufacturing Company, with more than twenty- five percent of its present total membership, and nearer fifty percent of its active membership, either recipients, or members of the families of recipients, of 25 year awards from the Company. As a token "of appreciation to the McKissick family for the continued interest in the welfare of the community and as a memorial to the late Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Foster McKissick", the membership of the church voted in the early part of 1956 to change the name of the church from Alice Methodist to McKissick Memorial Methodist Church. This action came as a climax to the last phase of a major remodeling and enlargement program begun some seven years before. Approved by the Quarterly Conference and the District Superintendent, the new name became official by action of the Annual Conference in August, 1956. Alice Methodist Church was organized on January 7, 1912, when a group of twenty- three persons assembled before the Rev. A.A. Merritt in one of the company houses in the new Alice Mill village. This same house served as "meeting house" for the Methodists and Baptists alike until the mill office building was erected. Then both denominations moved together to the two big upstairs rooms which served as "schoolhouse" for the village for many years. In 1915, a beautiful white frame church building was erected across the street from the company office, and this edifice was to become the permanent home of the Methodists in the community when the Baptist portion of the congregation moved to Park Street in the early 1930's. The original fine oak paneling and heavy exposed beams in the Sanctuary are the especial pride of the membership today. When the two denominations separated, the prospect of forty active Methodist members supporting a church seemed financially grim. But under the able direction of the Rev. M.B. Patrick the storm was weathered and the church grew. The Woman's Missionary Society was organized with Mrs. G.L. Austin serving as first president. Under the organization effected by the consolidation of the Methodist Churches in the United States, the Woman's Missionary Society was superceded, in 1940, by the Woman's Society of Christian Service, with Mrs. Carnis Bowen Davis elected first president. In 1954, the Wesleyan Service Guild, for employed women of the church, was organized, with Mrs. Davis elected its first president. Having more than tripled its membership in three years, the Guild, now headed by Mrs. Elizabeth G. McKinney as president, is one of the most effective working units in the church. o----------o McKISSICK MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST The Easley Progress Wednesday, November 19, 1_____ The first move to establish a Methodist Church was begun in the autumn of the year 1911, when a Preacher Yarborough set up a tent under the water tanks at the crest of Hill Street and held a series of revival meetings. The converts from "Yarborough's Meeting" organized Alice Methodist Church three months later, assembled before the Rev. A.A. Merritt in a little house at the end of Hill Street. This little house served as the meeting house for the Methodists and Baptists alike until the mill office building was erected. Then both denominations moved together to the two big upstairs rooms which served as schoolhouse for the village for many years. In 1915, a white frame church building was erected across the street from the company office, which was to become the Methodists' permanent home in the community when the Baptist portion of the congregation moved to Park Street in the early 1930's. The desire for a full-time pastor to serve the Alice and Arial Communities became a reality in 1948 with the appointment of the Rev. E.P. Hammond as pastor of the two churches, and soon thereafter a modern parsonage was erected, built in large part by volunteer labor from the two communities. An increase in interest in the church led to a movement to remodel and enlarge the church building. The building program was completed under the pastorate of Rev. Harold T. Reeves with the addition of an educational building. As a token "of appreciation to the McKissick family for the continued interest in the welfare of the community, and as a memorial to the late Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Foster McKissick", the membership of the church voted in 1956 to change the name of the church from Alice Methodist to McKissick Memorial Methodist Church. McKissick Memorial United Methodist Church, with Rev. D.A. Morrison, Jr. as the current pastor, continues to look toward the future with great anticipation of mission in the Easley area. TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife DAVIS, Cora Lee, d. 18-apr-____, p. j.d. & rutha davis MAULDIN, Rosa Boggs, b. c1850, d. 16-jan-1918, a. 68y NOTION, Cleamon E., b. 26-dec-1918, d. 16-mar-1920 VAUGHN, Daughter, b. 2-jan-1920, d. 20-nov-1925, father j.s. Vaughn