Scott's Lane Cemetery

SCOTT

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 8/23/2022 at 20:47:49

… (reference is made to) Scott’s Grove north of Mt. Pleasant and the Methodist camp meetings held there. The camp meeting ground was on the east side of the present U.S. Highway 218, and in the low-level space on the south side of the creek, and now a pasture. The part of 218 between town and the creek was, and is still known as “Scott’s Lane.” A man named Scott lived at the point where the Trenton Road turns to the west. Scott was the only fatality of the great storm of 1882, and he was buried in a little cemetery across the road to the east. When we first knew the little burying ground, there were signs of quite a few graves, and perhaps a dozen tombstones still standing. The last time we visited the little space, the plow had relentlessly bitten into the sacred soil until little was left, and most of the tombstones were gathered in a pile. We understand that the whole space is now under the plow and the identity of those interred there is forever lost.

(Excerpt from “The Bystander’s Notes”, “Mt. Pleasant News”, Wednesday, September 5, 1945)

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