George's Creek Cemetery

George's Creek Cemetery. . Barnard's Trading Post #2, called Barnardville, was an early Anglo settlement and trading post. At this post they traded with the Comanche, Kichai, Tawakoni, Waco and Wichita people who had long occupied the area. The Anglos later built two settlements: Fort Spunky and George's Creek. By 1854, a small community had formed. The population began to decline in the 1920s, and the post office ceased operations in 1939., In 1870, Thomas Taylor conveyed seven acres for the specified uses of a school house, meeting house and burial ground to the trustees of George's Creek Cemetery, James E. Norton, Thomas Taylor and Elias Underwood. The meeting house and school house were built where the cemetery's Section E currently stands; these buildings were moved west of the creek as part of an effort to move the town in the early 1900s. By 1901, the cemetery included 338 graves. In 1911, J.H. Allison deeded four acres containing the tabernacle to the trustees. An additional four acres were later donated., There are at least 208 unmarked graves within the cemetery. The oldest marked grave is that of Sara Olive Berry (d. 1862). Burials include veterans of the Civil War and victims of the 1918 Epidemic. In 1909, the tabernacle at the cemetery was built by the George's Creek Baptist Church. Until 1915, the church held services, revivals, and camp meetings there. Active burials and community gatherings still occur. Until 1979, burial privileges were open to anyone. Later, burial privileges were restricted to direct descendants and their families. George's Creek Cemetery is a historical link to the early Anglo pioneer settlements and the burial place for many of these settlers and their descendants. , Historic Texas Cemetery - 2021.