Eastern Cape, ALBANY district, Grahamstown, Salem, Methodist Church, cemetery
Cemetery information:-
Salem is a settlement about 20 km South of Grahamstown and 20 km north of Alexandria. It was founded as a settlement of the party of 1820 settlers under Hezekiah SEPHTON. The name is of Biblical origin (Gen. 14:18) and means "peace"; the local application refers to an incident in which Richard GUSH succeeded in securing peace with marauding Xhosas by means of a sermon, and gifts of tobacco and pocket knives. The original foundation stone of the church was laid by WH MATTHEWS J.P. on 18 July 1850. The church hall bears the date of 1832.
Album complete, but the cemetery is still in use at times.
eGGSA captions by: Marielle Ford, Marie Greyvenstein, Gail Röthlin, Alex van Niekerk, Wilna Eygelaar, Tania Naude, Alta Griffiths & George Crewe
Additional information available on the GGSA Cemetery DVD:-
Cemetery ID: 454
No of names: 274
Google Earth Project Information:-
GPSID: 454
GPS: -33 28.270, 26 29.149
? Unknown & Illegible Graves
2. Salem Methodist Church & Hall buildings
3. Memorial tablets inside church
4. Memorial wall
AMM Charlotte Grace -1907
AMM Mary
ATTWELL Robert Percy -1953 & Florence May HALL -1961 :: ATTWELL Iris May 1908-1978
BRADFIELD Richard 1843-1912 & Emma 1850-1926
BROOKES Thomas Charlton -1849
FILMER John 1770-1853
GARDE William Henry 1919-1999 & Gwyneth Kathleen 1925-2018 :: VALLERY Dennise Sylvia nee WARD 1936-2017
GARDNER Hezekiah -1866
GARDNER John -1892 :: GARDNER Mary Ann -1904
GARDNER Wilmot - 1876
GRAVETT William -1872 & Charlotte -1905
GUSH Richard 1789-1858 & Margaret EVANS 1790-1881
GUSH Thomas 1817-1835 GUSH Joseph 1821-1907 GUSH John 1828-1835 GUSH Richard 1836-1881 GUSH George R. 1846-1896
HEWSON John -1919 & Elizabeth Ann -1932 :: HEWSON Gertrude Ellen -1905 :: HEWSON Leslie Arthur -1885
HILL :: REED
HILL Ernest 1870-1948
HILL George J. -1883 & Margaret QUAIL -1931 : HILL Lilian Engenie
HILL Thomas Franklin -1908 & Annie Margaret -1911 :: HILL Emma -1899
IMPEY Anne Frances 1792-1848
IMPEY Harry -1852 :: IMPEY Minnie -1862
KING
KING Thomas Sellom -1859 :: KING Judith Elizabeth 1844-1846 :: KING Thomas James -1852
LONG Oswald Jos 1917-1974 & Maria Susanna 1920-2005
MASSON :: GUSH
MATTHEWS William Henry 1788-1867 & Frances -1864
MATTHEWS William Henry Dawson -190? & Margaret Ann -1908
MILLER Thelma May nee EYRE -1984
MOSS Meryck Neville 1933-1989 :: MOSS David Meryck 1959-2014
NEL Romi formerly VON GABELENTZ nee AMM 1925-2017 :: AMM Elizabeth Marion nee MULLINS 1936-1990 ::
NORMAN William & Jane -1852 :: NORMAN Amelia
RIDDIN Colin Lawrence 1918-1996 & Joan Elizabeth Agnes WILMOT 1930-2018
RIDDIN Denis Montague -1966 :: LUCK Rosemary Jean formerly RIDDEN nee WRIGHT 1935-2017 :: LUCK Bennie 1922-2000
SLATER John Francis -1876 & Sarah Ann BLAND -1912
THOMPSON Helena Susanna nee DU PLOOY 1941-1978
VEALL Alice nee GUSH 1916-1981 :: DE LA HARPE Hubert Charles 1930-1980 & Sheila Anne GUSH 1934-2002
WEBB Brian Lansdell -1970 & Phyllis KARG -2010
