Pentecost Methodist? Are you serious?

Once more Mrs. B'rer and Old B'rer scampered off into the hinterlands locating graves of distant kin. In this case a 4th Great Uncle (on the branch what can't spell right - these are 'eth' instead of the correct 'ith' Griffiths. 

Let's face it. Spelling was highly variable in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this case we have brothers (two of several) where one used 'eth' and the other 'ith' spellers. No one can say why this was.

In this case the 4th Great Uncle, his wife, and a spinster daughter (She passed away at age 65 having never married. That is the very definition of 'Spinster'!). But also an infant that could not immediately be placed. The infant's birth and death made it highly unlikely that he was the son of B'rer's uncle. A little digging revealed that he was a grandson of B'rer's great uncle. Pity. The little fella lived but a scant 18 days.

Spinster Cousin (flat stone), 4th Great Uncle, 4th Great Aunt (upright markers), and infant cousin (flat marker)

Infant's stone held up for photo (normally laying flat)

But finding the child's stone and reading it firsthand showed that his Find A Grave entry in error. His name was totally wrong and he was not linked to his parents. Both things have now been corrected.

That is the least we can do to keep his short life from being totally forgotten.

Before we could locate the graves we sought, we noticed something we did not anticipate at all: A Revolutionary War Veteran!

And he explained the oddity of a Pentecost Methodist Church!

The church is indeed a Methodist Church. But is it named for the man who founded it - one William Pentecost. Our Revolutionary War veteran was also a Methodist preacher!

William Pentecost's marker

The number of Patriots we are finding in these far-flung places is astounding. Not at all what we expected given how remote the area was at the time.