St. John's Methodist Church Cemetery is located in the village of Hope adjacent to St. John's United Methodist Church. The cemetery was originally used by the Moravian settlement in Hope. After the Moravians left the town, the cemetery came into the posession of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church (now a United Methodist Church). On an arch above the gated entrace to the cemetery is inscribed: "The Methodist Episcopal Church St. John's of Hope 1832."

St. John's is very large and is still active. This is not a complete transcription of the cemetery. It is instead a selection of the stones within the cemetery, which were collected between June 1983 and 24 March 2004, by Esther Doyle Read. The transcript does not include the Moravian section of the cemetery. There are 153 individual burials in this collection, as well as three additional individuals, whose names appear on the stones, but who are not buried in cemetery. There are also a limited number of photographs of the grave stones and monuments. If there is a thumbnail photograph located next to transcription, then there is a photograph for that particular transcription. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger version of the photograph. Larger versions of the photographs on this page may be viewed by clicking directly on them and then using the buttons that appear in the lower right corner of the photograph to enlarge the photo.

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