Wash Tention (Tensin) - Listed of the Founding Fathers of Mt. Calvary Holiness Church Cemetery

Started by Irene Wilson on Friday, April 22, 2022
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Mt. Calvary Holiness Church Cemetery still located at, 771 Central School Road, Rembert, South Carolina, is across Central School Road from West Lee Elementary School.
Mt. Calvary Holiness Church old Cemetery is located to the side and rear of the old, white, boarded up church building next door to the new Mt. Calvary Holiness Church building.
The plaque on the old church building says Mt. Calvary Holiness Church found in 1924.

The Founding Fathers of the Mt. Calvary Holiness Church had remained in the area after the emancipated of the “negro” in 1865. The church was built for the former slaves to worshipped in 1924.

THE NAMES OF THE FOUNDERS STILL ON THE CORNERSTONE OF THE OLD MT. CALVARY HOLLINESS CHURCH:

FAMILY ANCESTORS NAMES STILL ON THE CORNERSTONE OF THE OLD MT. CALVARY HOLLINESS CHURCH:
FOUNDERS OF THE CHURCH IN 1924:
1) Nelson Bradford
2) Luke McDaniel
3) Raleigh Jenkins
4) Wash (Washington) Tention

PAST DEACONS OF THE CHURCH IN 1924:
1) Enoch Lloyd
2) Leroy McDaniel
3) George Tention
4) Nehemiah Tention

1St Minister of the church:
Rev. Mandie McCall, Pastor

Deacons of the church:
1) Deacon Fate Lewis
2) John C. Thomas
3) Leroy Johnson
4) Jasper Burris
5) Charles B. Williams

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