The Annual Cemetery Meeting is held on the first Saturday in May at noon. The 2024 meeting will be held on May 4. This year, a dedication program for the Texas Historic marker for Georges Creek Cemetery will be held at 11:00am.
Members interested in having family reunions at the cemetery tabernacle or at Georges Creek Church, please send an email to board@georgescreekcemetery.org so we can mark the calendar.
You may reach the trustees via email: board@georgescreekcemetery.org
If you would like to have obituary information / picture added to an interment listing, please send the information to board@georgescreekcemetery.org.
In order to better maintain the cemetery grounds, a new set of Regulations have been established. Regulations (NEW)
To qualify to be buried at the George’s Creek Cemetery, you must be a member of the Georges Creek Cemetery Association. Association membership is open to any person who is a direct descendant or spouse of a direct descendant of an individual buried in the cemetery. Adopted and stepchildren are considered the same as natural born children.
George’s Creek Cemetery has been certified and recorded as a Historic Texas Cemetery.
Wording approved by the Texas Historical Commission and is being created on a marker:
Georges 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 Georges 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 a effort to move the town in the early 1900s. By 1901, the cemetery included 338 graves. In 1911, J.H Allison deeded 4 acres containing the tabernacle to the Trustees. An additional 4 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
Marker is property of the state of Texas