Mt. Olive Cemetery

A Historic Cemetery in Mars Hill’s Long Ridge Community

Mt. Olive Cemetery located in Mars Hill’s Long Ridge Community and near the Anderson Rosenwald School. To support the hopes and dreams of the Mt. Olive community for maintaining and improving the cemetery, we are pleased to name this worthy cause as our July Mission of the Month.

If you would like to donate, please make your check payable to MHUMC and put Mt. Olive Cemetery in the memo line and place it in the offering plate. You may also elect to give online and designate.

Founded in 1936, the Cemetery was purchased from the County School Board and is adjacent to the Historic Anderson-Rosenwald School. Among those buried there are the decedents of Mr. Joseph Anderson, who was one of the founders of Mars Hill University and Ms. Viola King Barnette, whose letter to the State School Board Superintendent was responsible for ensuring that all children across the state could receive a public secondary education.

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