U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Steven Binyard III, Charlie Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, visits the Edgerly Cemetery on Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort on Thursday, April 11. Binyard graduated from boot camp and visited the grave of his great-great-great-great-grandfather on MCAS Beaufort. About two decades ago, local historical researcher and genealogist Kimberly Morgan found the headstone of Stephen Binyard alone and neglected in the woods. She and Akosua Moore began research that would eventually lead to the cultural and historic preservation of the Binyard-Finley family. In 1866, after serving in the Union Army for three years, Binyard and his family bought a piece of land on Edgerly Plantation. This has been Binyard’s resting place since his death in 1882. After its discovery, the cemetery was cleaned-up and restored to honor the memory of Binyard and the other ancestors of the Edgerly Plantation. Lance Cpl. Kyle Baskin/USMC
