Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 09.18.2015
A cemetery marker is displayed at the unveiling of Edgerly Cemetery aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Sept. 18. The cemetery is home to many unmarked graves belonging to ancestors from the Edgerly Plantation. The lineage of the grave sites can be traced back to the 1880s with the head and foot stone of Stephen Binyard, a landowner on Edgerly Plantation who served in the Union Army after......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 09.18.2015
Descendants of the Edgerly Plantation visit Stephen Binyard’s grave during the unveiling of Edgerly Cemetery aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Sept. 18. Many of Binyard’s descendants attended the ceremony in his honor and celebrated their family’s lineage. The area around Binyard’s grave was recently cleared and a new sign marks the location of the cemetery....
Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 09.18.2015
Descendants of Stephen Binyard and the Edgerly Plantation attend the unveiling of Edgerly Cemetery aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Sept. 18. The ceremony was headlined by Kimberly Morgan and Akosua Moore who led the charge to have the history of Stephen Binyard and the Edgerly Plantation honored. “Being a math teacher, I know parallel lines don’t intersect,” said Moore.......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 09.18.2015
Kimberly Morgan, kneeling left, and Akosua Moore embrace their children during the unveiling of Edgerly Cemetery aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Sept. 18. The two women were brought together by Stephen Binyard, who is buried in the cemetery. “When we look at what the people who are buried here went through, we have nothing to complain about today because these people endured so......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 09.18.2015
Akosua Moore speaks during the unveiling of Edgerly Cemetery aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Sept. 18. Moore and Kimberly Morgan have worked together to restore the cemetery where Stephen Binyard is buried. Binyard was a landowner on Edgerly Plantation who served in the Union Army after he was freed from slavery in 1863. Moore is the descendant of the Edgerly plantation which is where......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 09.18.2015
Kimberly Morgan speaks during the unveiling of Edgerly Cemetery aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Sept. 18. Morgan has been overseeing the restoration of the cemetery and discovered the grave site of Stephen Binyard. “As I searched for the history of this area, I knew one thing, Stephen Binyard and his wife, Jane Henry, were a priority,” said Morgan. After he was freed from slavery......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Jonah Lovy | Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort | 09.18.2015
Stephen Binyard’s grave is displayed at the unveiling of Edgerly Cemetery aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Sept. 18. The cemetery has been cleaned-up and restored to honor the memory of Binyard and the other ancestors of the Edgerly Plantation whose burial locations have yet to be discovered. In 1866, after serving in the Union Army for three years, Binyard and his family bought a......
