Creek Cemetery

The Handbook of Texas says Creek took its name from Big Creek, had a school by about 1885 and a post office in 1888, and by the early 1890s had an estimated 150 people, gristmills, gins, a sawmill and a chair factory. Aldrich's 1943 county history lists the school's first teachers: A. J. Cary in 1885, Hugh Hatton from 1886 to 1890, then Jennie Bever for three years. It names Washington Taylor, Addison Hester and Wm. C. Hallmark among the pioneers. Only a church, a cemetery and a few houses remained by the mid-1930s.

What the plaque says

Creek Cemetery Addison P. and Melissa Hester deeded two acres of land to the Creek Community (then called Georgia Camp) for a school in 1887. Their infant son, Sydney Hester (d. 1889), was the first person interred here. An additional acre was donated in 1930. Creek Cemetery contains the gravesites of many local pioneer settlers, as well as veterans of the American Civil War and World Wars I and II. Neighboring communities, and many local residents who are descendants of pioneers buried here, continue to use and maintain the cemetery. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Boggy State Park — 22 mi
  A 1,847-acre park in Leon County named for a settlers' palisade of 1840, with a 15-acre lake, short trails and the story of Tennessee farmers, the Keechi and a Ranger captain.

More markers nearby

• Homesite of Samuel Cartmill Hiroms — 1.9 mi
• William Calvert Hallmark — 4.2 mi
• Old Shiloh Methodist Church and Campground — 4.4 mi
• Collin Aldrich — 5.7 mi