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23414
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The Evans Family Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Greenville. Richard Evans, founder of Martinsborough (later Greenville), owned the cemetery in 1771.\r\nThe Smith Cemetery that once existed behind East Carolina University's Self Help/Proctor Hotel Building was the next oldest cemetery. A \"Mr. Brooks\" was supposedly buried in the garden of Major Benjamin M. Selby in the 1830s. In 1858, a public cemetery once located near Tenth Street became the final resting place for Civil War soldiers, but the soldiers remains were moved to Cherry Hill Cemetery about 1873. In 1831, the Baptists of Greenville buried a member near their church.\r\nCherry Hill Cemetery was created in 1873 when Tilman R. Cherry donated land to the Methodist and Episcopal churches for a cemetery. An area at the railroad tracks of west Fifth Street was reportedly a place to bury black paupers. Parker's Cemetery on Reade's Street was a cemetery for executed paupers and criminals.\r\nThe Sycamore Hill Baptist Church had a cemetery next to the church. In 1924, the Greenville Alderman turned 30 acres of the James Brown farm into \"Greenwood Cemetery.\" \r\n
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39936
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The loss of Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church, noted center for black activity in Greenville, was also a loss for the greater community it long supported. With an intent to celebrate rather than mourn, though, was “Beyond Bricks and Mortar,” an oral history project coordinated by Joyner Library. This project revealed the lives of generations of black residents who contributed to the development of Greenville. Also acknowledging their presence in the community was Sam Barber’s A Journey for Purchasing and Naming the Brown Hill Cemetery. His book chronicled the initiative to transfer bodies of those buried in the church’s cemetery to nearby Brown Hill Cemetery.
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