Pleasant Hill Methodist Church

Partial Tombstone Transcription By Sybile McMillan Pierce
August 2004

1. Pvt. John D. Grimes - son of Williams Grimes
17th Infantry Co. H. S.C. Volunteers - CSA
B. March 5, 1821 D. May 18, 1903 - Bamberg County, S.C.
Wife: Cynthia K. McMillan Grimes - dau. of James M & Martha Sandifer McMillan
B. September 5, 1819 D. June 4, 1898 - Bamberg County, S.C.
Both are buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery.

2. George William Lawton Bishop - son of George William & Mary Platts Bishop
B. October 3, 1847 D. July 12, 1913
8th Battalion of State Troops, Senior Reserves, Company C, Barnwell & Beaufort
Counties - CSA
Wife: Martha Christine Prescott - dau. of Lewis Martin & Mary F. McMillan Prescott
B. January 20, 1848 D. January 30, 1911
Both are buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery.

3. John Myers Bishop - son of George William Lawton & Martha Christine Prescott
Bishop.
B. October 29, 1871 D. September 24, 1925 in Colleton County, S.C.
Death Certificate #: Vol #: 27 Cert #: 16947 Age: 55 Page #: 127
Wife: Cevilla Ann Rentz Bishop - dau. of S. & Janie Elizabeth Rentz
B. February 3, 1868 D. June 21, 1948
Both are buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery.

4. James William Goodson - son of George William & Laurie McMillan Goodson
B. September 13, 1861 D. March 12, 1930
1st wife: Eugenia Victoria Padgett Goodson - buried in theGreat Salkehatchie Baptist
Church Cemetery, near Ulmer, S.C.
2nd wife: Mary Virginia Bishop - dau. George William Lawton & Martha Christine
Prescott Bishop

B. November 5, 1873 D. December 5, 1919
Death Certificate #: Vol #: 39 Cert #: 21229 Age: 46 Page #: 145
Both James & his 2nd wife are buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church
Cemetery.

5. Carey Edwin Goodson - son of James William & Mary Virginia Bishop Goodson
B. October 5, 1893 D. September 13, 1898
Buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery.

6. William Hamilton Folk - son of William Calvin & Annie Eugenia Copeland Folk
B. December 17, 1866 D. July 4, 1934
1st wife: Ella Hughes Folk- dau. of George & Frances McMillan Hughes
2nd wife: Laura Rebecca Fender Folk - dau. of Jacob & Jane Fender
Only William Hamilton Folk is buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church
Cemetery.

7. George William Kinard - son of Adam W. & Martha Thomas Kinard
B. October 20, 1902 D. September 1934 in Orangeburg Hospital, Orangeburg, S.C.\
Wife: Edrie Fender Kinard
Only George William Kinard is buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church
Cemetery.

8. Jacob William Copeland, Sr. - son of Jacob Lazerus & Mary Anne Lane Copeland
B. May 13, 1867 D. October 31, 1923 in Bamberg, Bamberg County, S.C.
Death Certificate #: Vol. # 27 Cert. #: 18575 Age:56 Page: 69
Wife: Catherine Augusta “Gusta” Bishop Copeland - dau. of Jacob & Mahala Kinard
Bishop
B. February 8, 1887 D. March 7, 1940 in Bamberg, Bamberg County, S.C.
Death Certificate #: Vol#: 9 Cert#: 3703 Age: 73 P.C.: 500 Page: 35
Only Jacob William Copeland, Sr. is buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church
Cemetery.

9. Jacob William Copeland, Jr. - son of Jacob William & Catherine Augusta Bishop
Copeland
B. February 4, 1897 D. August 17, 1985
He is buried in the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery.

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August 2004

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