The Story
Bethesda Cemetery lies beside the old Bethesda Methodist Church on Bethesda Church Road southeast of Lexington, and its graves are part of the record catalogued by Historic Oglethorpe Inc. in its county survey, where the site is listed as the Bethesda Methodist Church Cemetery, marker I-8. Around eighty burials are documented here, a few still unidentified, including one individual recognized on Find a Grave as a notable interment. The quiet churchyard reflects the Methodist congregations that anchored community life across nineteenth-century Oglethorpe County.
About this site
Bethesda Cemetery is a cemetery in Lexington, Oglethorpe County. It is one of 53 cemeteries documented in Oglethorpe County, among 71 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.8374, -82.9768 near Lexington. The nearest cataloged historic site is Chafin Cemetery (cemetery), about 1.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Stevens Grove Cemetery, Pentecost Chapel Holiness Church Cemetery, and Dozier Rees Cemetery.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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