Lake Chapel: Once a Church, now a Cemetery
The following information is quoted from A Survey of 22 Cemeteries in the Johnsonville-Hemingway Area of Old Williamsburg District of South Carolina by Elaine Eaddy, circa 1979, with additional updated commentary from Josh Dukes following: Lake Chapel Baptist Church and Cemetery as seen on a 1946 map "Lake Chapel was a small nest of Baptists surrounded by Methodism at Prospect, Ebenezer, and Old Johnsonville. All were a little too far to make traveling easy and comfortable by horse and buggy. The writer [Elaine Eaddy] has not been successful in determining what influences led to the establishment of a Baptist Church at that particular time and place, nor has a precise date been determined. The deed was not recorded; indirect evidence, however, indicates that the church was built about 1890. Julian Tanner Sr, born in 1880, was a small boyfollowing in his father's footsteps when the beams and sills were being hewn for the building. More than 50 years later, when the building