The annual Shiloh Cemetery clean-up will be held Labor Day, Monday, September 5.
Roger Carter, long-time trustee of the cemetery and long-time clerk of the Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church nearby, asks those with loved ones buried there to come and help with clean up at the cemetery.
Volunteers are asked to bring lawn mowers, weed trimmers, edgers, rakes, hoes and trimmers to do the work.
The cemetery, which now has about 1,500 interments, is the resting place of many of Pierce County’s prominent citizens. It is the burial site of Pierce County’s only Revolutionary War soldier, Elder Isham Peacock, once the pastor of Shiloh Church.
The church, which dates back to the 1820s, is still active.
While the cemetery is on church property, lots are to be cleaned and kept up by the descendants of those buried there or anyone in the community willing to do the task.
There is no “perpetual care,” meaning the families of those buried there are expected to help clean around the graves.
Carter does accept donations for those unable physically to clean around their lots. That money is used to cover the expenses such as fuel and weed killer to clean those areas.
For more information, contact Carter by phone at 449-2625 or by mail at 6119 Big House Road, Blackshear.
