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Submitted: 10/3/21 • Approved: 10/3/21 • Last Updated: 10/6/21 • R1393415-G0-S3
This cemetery is located three miles east of McRae and covers four acres. A homecoming is held every year on the second Sunday of June to honor the town's deceased and raise money to maintain the cemetery.
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This cemetery was started as a family burial site when T. Alonzo Durham's first wife, Nettie B. Durham, died January 12, 1892, after giving birth to their third child, which was stillborn. Mother and child were buried in the same grave on a small knoll in the northeast corner of the family farm. In March of 1903 Alonzo and Nettie's oldest child, a daughter, died and was buried beside her mother.
The date the church was founded is uncertain. The deed to the land does not correspond with church records. The church started on an acre of land donated by W.S. Rogers, the land joining Durham's farm on the northeast corner, next to his family burial plot. In 1906 Durham and his second wife, Ida J. Durham, donated two acres of land to the church for the community cemetery. This gift included the family plot. In 1942 the trustees bought an acre of land on the south side of the existing cemetery from S.T. and Edna Cherry. Then in 1948 the Cherrys sold another acre. The Lebanon church lost attendance until it finally merged with the United Methodist Church in McRae. In November 1957 the McRae church deeded the Lebanon property to the Lebanon Cemetery Association to be used for homecomings and community gatherings only. The Association was incorporated as a nonprofit organization with a seven-member board of directors. The church building was destroyed by a storm in the spring of 1980 and never rebuilt. A pavilion was built on the spot and is used for an annual homecoming.
Contributed on 10/3/21 by hawkinsdonna48
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