Taken by Allison Pierce (2016)

This is new sign that replaces the old photo below at Boykin Truett / New Hope Cemetery.

This lovely Sign sits between the 2 Cemetery entrance roads on Wolf Creek Road .Although it says New Hope Cemetery , there is 2 Cemeteries at this location. New Hope Cemetery is the old Cemetery that began being used some time after 1824 , when New Hope was 1st founded. Over 100 years later this Cemetery had filled and many of graves were unmarked. For fear of opening graves where there was existing graves or the possibility of burying someone on top of another grave, The Church Leaders chose to discontinue any new burials. There have been some burials in the old cemetery since , but they were where the person already had a grave plot next to a marked grave of a spouse or family member.

Mr Truitt , who was a Faithful , Devout and Devoted Church Member at New Hope , bought the adjoining property to New Hope so that his Church Family would continue to have a burial place .

Unfortunately , My Truitt died in a mining accident and was one of the early burials in his New Boykin Truitt Cemetery.

All of the graves in Boykin Truitt were buried after the early 1940's. Any graves that were buried before that are in New Hope Cemetery. There are some graves in old family plots that were buried years after New Hope was blocked from any new family plots.

Photo is taken in middle of NEW HOPE Cemetery and looking out onto the rows of newer graves at BOYKIN TRUITT Cemetery

New Hope Cemetery in Eden