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Mount Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery

Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA

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  • Get directions 908 Wright St., Sweetwater, TN
    Sweetwater, Tennessee 37874 United States
    Coordinates: 35.60139, -84.46111
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Copied by Lawrence McConkey, Englewood, Tenn.
Date: Sep. 8, 1939

It seems that approximately fifty years ago the Negroes of Sweetwater needed a building for a church and land for a cemetery, so they purchased a building and about one acre of land from Raz Ragon. The building, used by the Cumberland Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist denominations to worship in, was called Mount Bethel. The rest of the lot was used as a Negro cemetery. The entire lot is now used for the cemetery and the Mount Bethel Baptist Church is just across a side street from the cemetery on another lot. The cemetery may be known to some people as Mount Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Wilson Jones and the Rev. Henry Brient, Baptist Ministers, are buried here.
The cemetery is located in Sweetwater between Wright and Lenoir Streets, west. The exact number is not known but there are approximately 100 or more unmarked graves.

Presently most of the grave markers are gone except one. Through a WPA listing done in the 1930s, I am listing those people buried here.





Copied by Lawrence McConkey, Englewood, Tenn.
Date: Sep. 8, 1939

It seems that approximately fifty years ago the Negroes of Sweetwater needed a building for a church and land for a cemetery, so they purchased a building and about one acre of land from Raz Ragon. The building, used by the Cumberland Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist denominations to worship in, was called Mount Bethel. The rest of the lot was used as a Negro cemetery. The entire lot is now used for the cemetery and the Mount Bethel Baptist Church is just across a side street from the cemetery on another lot. The cemetery may be known to some people as Mount Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Wilson Jones and the Rev. Henry Brient, Baptist Ministers, are buried here.
The cemetery is located in Sweetwater between Wright and Lenoir Streets, west. The exact number is not known but there are approximately 100 or more unmarked graves.

Presently most of the grave markers are gone except one. Through a WPA listing done in the 1930s, I am listing those people buried here.





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