Mount Olivet Methodist Church

From its historical marker:

This is Arlington’s oldest church site in continuous use. Land for a Methodist Protestant meeting house was conveyed in 1855 by William and Ann Marcey and John B. and Cornelia Brown, for whom Brown’s Bend Road (now 16th Street North) was named. The first church was completed in 1860. During the Civil War, Union troops used the church as a hospital and stable and subsequently destroyed it. The present structure, erected in 1948-49, is the fourth church on the site.

Among those buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery is Sue Landon Vaughan, one of the founders of Decoration Day (now Memorial Day) in Mississippi during April 1865. She began the practice of decorating the graves of Civil War dead, both Confederate and Union.

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Mount Olivet Methodist Church historic marker

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Satellite view of church and cemetery

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Edward Eugene Veitch and Mary Isabelle Veitch

 

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Alfred B. Clark and Alice S. Clark

 

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James R. Weekly and Julia B. Weekly

 

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Mary V. Dye and Cary L. Dye

 

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Dye Family marker including children of Hampton & Sarah Dye and also a plaque for “Local Preacher”

 

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John Scherb, Anna Scherb, and Henry Scherb

 

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Florence V. Anderson, wife of Albert Anderson. “I have suffered.”

 

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Margaret A. Dye, wife of John R. Dye

 

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Maurice M. Ball and Lillie C. Ball

 

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Praylow E. Woodyard

 

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Mother: Lucy Swain Woodyard

 

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Septemus Brown

 

 

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Thelma D. Osborne

 

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A hand-carved figure

 

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Mrs. Selena G. Lloyde

 

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J. F. Ana : S. G. Lloyde

 

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Cornelia A., wife of Dorsey Donaldson, and son, John T. Donaldson.

 

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Sarah F., beloved wife of George W. Faulkner, and daughter of the late Horatio and Elizabeth Ball

 

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Reverend Edwin R. McGregor

 

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Ann Maria McGregor

 

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Jesse Herbert Veitch and Harry Clayton Veitch

 

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This is the back of the Civil War memorial, with the name Henry “Hank” Hulme, Leader and Historian

 

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Sue Landon Vaughan, founder of Decoration Day, which was to become Memorial Day

 

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Moon over the steeple of Mount Olivet Church

 

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