The World of the Cemetery

Episcopal Church

I thought you might be interested in seeing some images from the time when the people buried in the Episcopal Cemetery were still alive. Above is the Episcopal Church and the graveyard in a photo taken before 1890. Only the latter exists today.

Not everyone in the cemetery was Episcopalian. Some were Methodists. Below is the Methodist Church, which still stands.

Methodist Church

My great-grandmother, who moved to the area in the 1910s, was a Presbyterian. She and her family attended the Presbyterian Church, shown below. The building still exists but now belongs to the St. Francis A. M. E. Zion Church.

Presbyterian Church

Then there's the Catholic Church. Unfortunately this pretty little building was demolished in the 1920s to make way for the current structure, which happens to be a huge eyesore.

Catholic Church

Here's a general view of the town in the late 19th century.

The next pictures come from my great-grandmother's collection of newspaper clippings and whatnots. Below, on the left, you can see the building where she met my great-grandfather; they were both renting rooms in it at the time.

Next, here's West Main Street with the town's first fire brigade.

And lastly, some random views of the town, from between 1900 and 1927.