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Located at Nutbush in Haywood County, the church was organized in 1822 after a camp meeting by Bishop Moses Brock. The church was formerly known as Buckhorn church and located a mile south of the present location. Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States worshiped at Buckhorn when camped at the site and surveying in the Haywood-Lauderdale area.

The church moved to the present location circa 1848 and changed the name to Trinity.

Trinity Cemetery [is located] directly behind the church building, and the first burial was that of Bennett Greaves in 1849. This is the final resting place of many soldiers of all wars, including Southern and Union soldiers [in] “The War Between the States.” During reconstruction Trinity cemetery was a meeting place of the Ku Klux Klan, and there this clan was disbanded by its cyclops when unlawful bodies began operating as clans.

Trinity Cemetery Association, formed in 1907, meets monthly, supervises the care of the grounds and with Trinity Church holds an annual Homecoming on the 2nd Sunday in May, Mother’s Day. Government markers have been secured and set in place for all the unmarked soldiers. The following lists were supplied by Dr. Robert Rooks and his father, Ned Rooks, who lovingly place American and Confederate Flags on the graves each year for Homecoming.

Click here to view a list of American Service Men and Women Buried at Trinity United Methodist Cemetery.