Buckhorn United Methodist Cemetery
Buckhorn Cemetery
List by Rows:
by Darren Bryan
(5-21-2006)
(starting at left front corner)
922 graves
Buckhorn Cemetery
List Alphabetized:
by Darren Bryan
(5-21-2006)
922 graves
Buckhorn Cemetery List (1995)
by
David Covington
(around
623 graves listed)
Believed to be the oldest
Methodist Church in Laurens County, Ga. is the
old Darsey Church, now called Buckhorn Methodist Church, probably because it is
on Buckhorn
Creek. According to tradition, the first house of worship was built by Seth
Darsey
on what was known as the John Lord estate, called Bethsaida.
Methodist circuit riders began to minister to early settlers of the
community about 1820. In 1824 Buckhorn Church was organized and meetings
were held in a log cabin near Buckhorn Creek, about a mile east of the
present building site on the old Chicken Road. This log building was
destroyed in the late 1850's by a tornado, and was replaced by a long
structure which was used until about 1880, when a building of sawn timber
was constructed.The forerunner of the present church house was builtin 1903,
consisting of
one room, 30 by 50 feet, with four doors leading to the outside.
Electricity reached the church in the 1940's.
For the first one hundred years, the church was known as Darsey's Meeting
House and was on the Dexter circuit. Services were held on the third
Saturday and Sunday of each month. Many camp meetings were held on the
grounds with brush arbors being constructed for the preaching services.
These services lasted several days, the last tent meeting being held in 1914.
The oldest church register still in existent was written in 1897.
Seth Darsey was the first person to be buried in the cemetery in 1847, There
are several unidentified infant and
adult graves that show no dates at all, but the list contains persons buried
there up and until 1995: