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This donation page was created to build a sustainable family legacy that is funded to support education, maintaining our family cemeteries and assisting the community of our ancestors.

The business name MGMR DA, LLC was created to establish a business checking account so that the host family reunion committee will only have to concentrate on hosting the reunion.

It is also a way to receive recurring donations for our Scholarship, Cemetery, & Disaster Funds. We are also supporting the Association for the Betterment of Bucksport, a non profit organization. We will continue to send more information to ensure wide dissemination. Your assistance is also requested to ensure all of our family members are aware.

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) – An Horry County community is honoring a previously lost piece of its history that dates back to the 19th century: a cemetery where slaves were possibly buried in Bucksport.

As the Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority expanded its Bull Creek water treatment plant, headstones were found out in the woods. That led people in Bucksport to finding an entire cemetery.

Now, they’re trying to reveal the community’s untold history. “It was always here,” said Kevin Mishoe, president of the Association for the Betterment of Bucksport. “The rumors just weren’t pursued.” Mishoe is helping preserve this rediscovered piece of woods known as Eddy Lake Cemetery.

Kevin Mishoe never expected to get help from the groups that turned out to clean up Eddy Lake Cemetery, a recently recovered African American burial ground that most people believe is filled with slaves that once belonged to Henry Buck.

About 45 volunteers rolled up their sleeves and went to work raking straw, adding mulch and even repairing deteriorating tombstones. Nine were Horry County policemen, and most of the others were descendants of Confederate soldiers.

“It was awesome, and I thought it was an opportunity to talk about something positive because you hear so much about the Civil War and how it was fought to preserve slavery,” Mishoe said, adding that for this restoration project descendants of slaves and of Confederate soldiers came together for a worthwhile project.

People in the Bucksport area have long talked about a slave cemetery, and some people knew that their relatives were buried there, but they weren’t sure where it was.

Marie Owens, whose great-great-grandmother is buried there, set out a while back to find the cemetery, and she did! It’s on property now owned by the Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority, whose officials gave her and others the okay to restore the cemetery, where they believe that as many as 100 people might have been buried.