Moses Funeral Home was established in the 1930s by mortician W. M. Boatwright in the quiet, rural town of Pamplico, South Carolina. Before closing, it was one of the oldest continuously operated African American funeral homes in Florence County. After his death in 1985, Boatwright passed the funeral home business down to his son, Hubert Kenneth Boatwright. A 1943 graduate of the Eckels College of Mortuary Science, H. K. Boatwright was a past member of the South Carolina Board of Funeral Service, National Funeral Directors Association and the Sixth Congressional District of the South Carolina Morticians Association.
When he died, Peoples Funeral Home, another long standing African American funeral home in the community, co-owned Moses Funeral Home with Boatwright. After several years of sitting vacant, Moses Funeral Home was reopened as Moses Memorial Chapel and is now an active funeral home owned and operated by Peoples Funeral Home. One unique feature that stands out is the glass room in the chapel, which serves as a “cry room” or quiet room for babies or young children.
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This funeral home appears to be in pretty good shape still. The co-owner(s) could have very well renovated this home vs opening a new one a short distance away or keep this one and still open a new one. I wonder what’s the plan for the items and hearses left behind. Those things could be donated rather than left there. It seems they could be useful to another funeral home if they don’t have any needs for them.
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Seems the owners or heirs need to have an “estate sale” and get those useful items out into the world for others to use. Always seems unfortunate when an old local business ends.
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