Orlando in Orange County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
Lock Family Cemetery
Est. 1887
Photographed By Mike Wintermantel, April 28, 2023
1. Lock Family Cemetery Marker
Inscription.
Lock Family Cemetery. Est. 1887. Also known as the Boggy Creek Cemetery, this pioneer family cemetery was established in the Boggy Creek community for William Rufus Lock and his descendants. Lock had been granted exemption from serving in the Confederate Army so he could maintain order in his home town in Echol County, Georgia. His son. Pvt. James Calvin Lock, fought in the last conflict of the Union Army's campaign through Georgia and Alabama known as "Wilson's Raid" or the Battle of Girard in Columbus, Georgia, on April 16, 1865. After the Civil War. Lock and his family relocated to Boggy Creek from Georgia where they farmed and raised livestock during the open range years. This cemetery was part of the original land purchased by Nancy P. Locke in 1881 from the Trustees of the State of Florida's Internal Improvement Fund for the sum of one dollar an acre. Among the burials is Jane Green, a well-known. independent pioneer woman of Creek Indian ancestry who ran cattle with Mose Barber and had a St. John's River creek and swamp named after her. The cemetery also contains graves of veterans from the Civil War, World War I. World War II. the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Also known as the Boggy Creek Cemetery, this pioneer family cemetery was established in the Boggy Creek community for William Rufus Lock and his descendants. Lock had been granted exemption from serving in the Confederate Army so he could maintain order in his home town in Echol County, Georgia. His son. Pvt. James Calvin Lock, fought in the last conflict of the Union Army's campaign through Georgia and Alabama known as "Wilson's Raid" or the Battle of Girard in Columbus, Georgia, on April 16, 1865. After the Civil War. Lock and his family relocated to Boggy Creek from Georgia where they farmed and raised livestock during the open range years. This cemetery was part of the original land
purchased by Nancy P. Locke in 1881 from the Trustees of the State of Florida's Internal Improvement Fund for the sum of one dollar an acre.
Among the burials is Jane Green, a well-known. independent pioneer woman of Creek Indian ancestry who ran cattle with Mose Barber and had a St. John's River creek and swamp named after her. The cemetery also contains graves of veterans from the Civil War, World War I. World War II. the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Erected 2022 by The Lock Family and the Florida Department of State. (Marker Number F-1182.)
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Location. 28° 23.714′ N, 81° 19.666′ W. Marker is in Orlando, Florida, in Orange County. Marker is on Boggy Creek Road (Florida Route 527A) west of Wetherbee Road, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Orlando FL 32824, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Credits. This page was last revised on April 29, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 28, 2023, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 173 times since then and 47 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 28, 2023, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
