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HISTORIC Bethany Reformed & Lutheran Church Cemetery

United Church of Christ

STREET II NUMBER East side SR 1716 0.2 mi. South of jet. with SR 1800

CITY. TOWN Midway

STATE

CATEGO,.V

_DISTRICT _BUILDING(S) _STRUCTURE X SITE _OBJECT

xx VICINITY OF

OWNERSHIP

_PUBLIC ~PRIVATE

_BOTH PUBLIC ACQUISITION

_IN PROCESS _BEING CONSIDERED

CODE 037

STATUS

~OCCUf'IED

_UNOCCUPIED _WORK IN PROGRESS

ACCESSIBLE _ YES. RESTRICTED

JL YES UNRESTRICTED _NO

NAME Bethany United Church of Christ

STREET II NUMBER

_NOT FOR PUBLICATION CONGRESSIONAL DI.STRICT

COUNTY CODe Davidson 057

PRESENT USE

-AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM _COMMERCIAL _PARk

_EDUCATIONAL _PRIVA TE RESIDENCE _ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS _GOVERNMENT _SCIENTIFIC

_'NDUSTR'AL _ TRANSPORTA TlON _MILITARY x_oniER Cemetery

Route 6, Box 341 telephone: 919-769-2194

Winston-Salem _ VICINITY OF North Carolina 27107

LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURT.HOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC

Register of Deeds Office, Davidson County Courthouse

STREET II NUMBER

Lexington aro1ina

I FORM PREPARED BY NAME I TiTlE

Ruth Little, Consultant

Branch July 26, 1983

es and His 919/733-6545

North 27611

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This large cemetery contains about 400 gravestones, of which approximately 150 are of local craftsmanship, and are generally smaller in size than those at Abbott's Creek and Pilgrim churches, the other two largest groupings of local gravestones. The grave­stones have apparently been rearranged in widely spaced rows, with footstones often placed beside headstones. The earliest inscribed marker is dated 1781. Three of the early gravestones, dated 1789, 1797, and 1828, are for the Lang family, and were moved to this cemetery from their original location in the Lang Family Graveyard nearby. A large number of gravestones by the Sw~egood School, including the earliest examples of the style, 1799-1814, and the last dated example, 1857, are located here. Two of the earliest are the gravestones of Joseph Clodfelter's grandparents, Sarah and Felix Glatfelder. These are seminal to the evolution of the pierced style, and may have been carved by Joseph's father Jacob. The beautiful pierced gravestones for Joseph's parents, Jacob and Margaret Clodfelter, who died in 1837 and 1857, were probably carved by Joseph Clodfelter himself. Both Joseph and Jacob probably lived near Bethany Church, and the pierced gravestones in the cemetery represent the full evolution of the pierced style which is attributed primarily to their hands. Another significant group of gravestones here are the monuments to the Livengood family, carved in the l830s and l840s by the "Modern Master." In the l820s the wealthy John Lindsay family commissioned marble gravestones from a professional stonecutter named Davidson, from Petersburg, Virginia, and his signed gravestones are the earliest marble monuments in the cemetery. The family of wealthy merchant Jacob Mock commissioned fashionable urn-and-willow gravestones of marble from Moravian stonecutter Traugott Leinback of Salem in the l840s. But the majority of the Bethany congregation continued to patronize local stonecutters until the l850s. The following gravestones, grouped by schools, are the most significant:

Early Phase:

Crude, plain stones--178l-l828 Johannes Lang Thomas Lang

Simple Decorative Shapes illegible Hugh Yokley Cadrina Lang

Incised Floral Ornament Adam Kreim illegible Marilia Qwiwein

Semicircular monogrammed tympanum

d. 1789 1752-1797

1807 -1818

1752-1828

1794 1779-1781

1808

Phelep Zenk 1813-1818 George Fein 1807 Susanna Fein 1760-1793

Form 10·1Il00'11

Bethany Reformed & Lutheran Church Cemetery Continuation sheet 7 Item number

Swis egood School--l820s-l830s

Grab Schrietiwadie Sarah Glatfeltern Felix Glatfelder William Weer George Nifong Catharone O. Chnard Philip C. Lenard Edward Burk Lucy Delap Sophia Wear David Wear Margaret Clodfelter Jacob (Clodfelter?)

Derivative Pierced Tradition

Infant of Joseph Clodfelter Benjamin Farabee Sanruel Zerner Peter Clodfelter George Long Christina Motsinger N.W. Susan William Clatenba

"Modern Master"--1830s-l840s

Tobias Livengood Philip Livengood Susanna R. Livengood John Livengood Daniel Motsinger

Traugott Leinback, Salem--1840s

Jacob Mock Margaret Mock Juliana Mock

Davidson, Petersburg, Va.

Infant of John & Elizabeth Lindsay

John Lindsay

1717-1799 1731 .. 1813 1727 .. 1814 1753 .. 1800 1753-1797 1802-1822

1817 1740-1825 1833-1834 1816-1837 1778-1838 1771-1857

-1837

1823 .. 1836

1767-1842 1763-1843 1775 .. 1853 1764-1833

1807 1782 .. 1793

.. 1807

1771-1834 1806-1833 1834-1836 1766-1841

-1845

1778-1844 1822-1843 1775-1843

1817 1767-1828

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PERIOD AREAS Of SJ~NIFlCANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

_PREHISTORIC

_1400-1499

__ 1500- 1599

-ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION

_1600-1699

~1700-1799

~1800-1899

_1900-

-ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC

-AGRICULTURE

-ARCHITECTURE

X-ART

_COMMERCE

_COMMUNICATIONS

SPECIFIC DATES various

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

_CONSERVATION _LAW _SCIENCE

_ECONOMICS _LITERATURE X_SCULPTURE

_EDUCATION _MILITARY _SOCIAUHUMANITAAIAN

_ENGINEERING _MUSIC _THEATER

_EXPLORA TlON/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY _ TRANSPORTATION

_'NDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY)

_'NVENTION

STONECUTTERS: Traugot t Leinback and unknown others

Bethany Reformed & Lutheran Church was established in 1789. In that year Frederick Miller deeded land for the church to the ttinhabitayts of Brushy Fork belonging to the Societies of the Church and Presbyterian parties. H

Footnote

lSink and Matthews, Pathfinders Past and Present: A History of Davidson County, North Carolina, 21-22, 146.

CRITERIA ASSESSMENT

A,C Derives primary significance from the unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected here in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. These highly decorative soapstone gravestones with folk symbols for resurrection and eternity represent the height of folk art accomplish­ment within the craft community of the Anglo-German farmers of north Davidson County.

Believed to be the home church of Joseph Clodfelter, the only stonecutter in the Swisegood School who can be positively identified. Many fine examples of pierced gravestones attributed to him, including monuments for his grandparents and parents, are located here.

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IIMAJOR BIBUOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

Sink, M. Jewell and Matthews, Mary Green. Pathfinders Past and Present: A History of Davidson County, North Carolina. (High Point, N.C.: Hall Printing Company, 1972.)

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The cemetery boundaries include an area of roughly 2 acres with the approximate dimensions of 250 feet by 300 feet by 250 feet by 400 feet in a trapezoidal configuration as shown on the U.S. Geological Survey map, Midway, N.C. Quadrangle.