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Wesley Cox, the caretaker keeps the cemetery mowed and looking good.

Jimmie Newsom can be found donating his time to cleans the tombstones in many cemeteries.

As you can see in all the photos, tombstone of all sizes and shapes are found in this large cemetery. It is said there are over 600 graves in the Beech Creek Cemetery.

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Old, broken and forgotten vs New, or shiny white.

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Military or Hand-Carved Both can be found in Beech Creek Cemetery.

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Two more that Jimmie has cleaned.
You can see where they were almost black and unreadable.

One last shot of the old church across the graveyard.

Check out the 1999 Cemetery Working Day

Photos (C) 1999, Roy L. Johnson

Web page created by (C) Annette Carpenter Womack; Update 30 Jul 2004