Buck Creek Cemetery

Buck Creek Cemetery
Childress Co. TX

This is a cemetery reading from The Thorny Trail (Midland Gen. Soc.) Summer-Fall 1978. Contributed by Dora Fern Durfey (Mrs. Velman) Warrick Box 1109 Wellington, TX 79095
Buck Creek Cemetery, Childress County, TX. Read by DFD Warrick, and her cousin Cliff Campbell, 30 April 1978

Buck Creek Cemetery is located about 2 ½ miles south of Loco in northern Childress County. It is 6 tenths of a mile north of Hwy 62 on the first road after crossing Buck Creek bridge going east from Hwy 87.There are 8 to 10 acres in the fenced area and most of the graves are in the south half of the fenced area towards the eastern fence with a few graves at the very southwest corner. The reading was done by rows. At my recent visit this did not seem to be practical as rows were very hard to distinguish other than those in the very middle of the cemetery. There are more graves present than when this was read. In fact there were graves as recent as 1988. I did not have time to read the new graves. The following is as reads on the original document. Changes or additions will be noted with bold type.

(Note: the above paragraph contributed by Ken Taylor, who visited this cemetery on 10 Sep. 1998
Updated 2009 by Vicki Shaffer from tombstone photos)

Row 1
Henry A. Salter Feb 1, 1854 / Dec 10, 1905
Velma Leone Edwards Sep 10, 1909 / Jan 13, 1916 (flat marker)
Edna Della Edwards Dec 9, 1888 / April 13, 1939
George Houston Edwards Dec 4, 1885 / April 30, 1949

Row 2
Sara Jane Smith Feb 24, 1878 / Jan 30, 1968
JH Jim Smith Jul 28, 1858 / Nov 28, 1933
Flonnie Dec 30, 1901 / Oct 17, 1902 (double faced stone on front side) d/o J.H. & S. Smith
Earl Jun 6, 1899 / Jul 10, 1901 (back side) s/o J.H. & S. Smith
John M. Smith Dec 7, 1822 / Sep 11, 1902
BC Lanier Feb 1, 1824 / Jun 4, 1904
Travis Creasy Dec 13, 1910 / Sep 21, 1914

Row 3
Maragaret Ann Hawkins Feb 25, 1851 / Dec 31, 1924
Newil Clayton Aug 29, 1919 / Jan 27, 1920 Son of EM & BB Fortney
Bulah Bell Oct 23, 1895 / Aug 29, 1919 Wife of EM Fortney
John K Campbell Jul 12, 1871 / Jul 29, 1915
Susana Kenney Aug 30, 1842 /Feb 8, 1900 Wife of WT Campbell
Wm. T Campbell 1837 - 1917
Mary Ann Malley Mar 28, 1875 / Oct 4, 1930
John T Malley Jan 8, 1875 / July 17, 1941

Row 4 & Row 5
Unreadable metal markers

Row 6
Mrs. RJ Griffin May 10, 1862 / Oct 9, 1943 (Former wife of Jackson Woods)
WO Griffin Mar 2, 1867 / Jul 6, 1926
Ida Bell Willis Dec 9, 1891 / Apr 17, 1923
Martha L. Griffin Dec 13, 1841 / Apr 25, 1914
Samuel L. Griffin Oct 8, 1906 (Infant son of WO & EL Griffin)
May Griffin Apr 8, 1906 (Infant daughter of WO & EL Griffin)
Emma L. Griffin Apr 4, 1874 / Apr 17, 1908 (Wife of WO Griffin)
Two graves in enclosed wire fence
Ann Steen Dec 12,, 1828 /Jan 27, 1892
BF Steen Apr 15, 1833 /Dec 7, 1912

Row 7
Andrew Irvin Sep 14, 1872 / May 9, 1899 (Son of WM & MA Irvin)

Row 1 in very southwest corner of cemetery
Richard O Woods Died June 10, 1940 Age 54,6 mo. 9 days (Marker not present 9/10/98)
Stone pillar with following two names
Jackson L. Woods Jan 20, 1844 / Apr 30, 1904
Nettie H. Woods Jan 27, 1899 / Jan 19, 1901 (Daughter of JL & RJ Woods)

Additional Burials

Tommie William Wilson Apr 26, 1907/Dec 12, 2000
Rosa Bell Burnett Upton Jan 22, 1874/ May 18, 1930 (unsure - no stone)
Mary Irene Smith d/o J.H. & S.J. Smith Jun 6, 1904/Oct 30, 1908
Sue (Vaughn) Campbell Sept 23, 1916/Oct 29, 2002 (w/o Frank W. Campbell)
Frank Walter Campbell Nov 16, 1912/Oct 20, 1983 Parents of Frankie Sue, Sharon & Walter

Researcher Addenda:
I can offer this as a follow up to some of the names you listed. John M Smith was the father of JH Smith. Flonnie and Earl Smith were the children of JH and Sara Jane Smith. If it is of any help to anyone Sara Jane Smith's maiden name was Goodson. I believe her father's name was John or J. Goodson. I have more details for the descendant but none on the ancestors. - Shawn Smith