Duck Creek Cemetery
Duck Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
Columbia Township
Contributed by Beth Graves, March 2000

Located on the corners of Duck Creek and Edwards Roads, but has been abandoned and devastated.  In 1830 William Marsh sold for the sum of 6 cents lawful money to John Ferris, Thomas Cooper, Richard Morten, Benjamin Bridge, and James Lyon Jr trustees of the regular Baptist Church called Duck Creek  Church,  26 2/3 acres of Edwards road and Duck Creek.

These inscriptions taken by Mrs Baker in 1904.
 

ALLEN, Jane d. 30 Sep 1848  32y Native of Clark Co. OH
BALL, Danforth M.  son of Danforth A. and Maria A. Ball, granson of Joseph and Ann Morton
                    d. 1 Aug 1838 Madisonville,  10m 15d
BOWER, Sarah, wife of David Bower,  d. 25 May 1862
BRELSFORD, Sally J.  8 Jun 1856-30 Jan 1884
CADMAN,, George John  d. Sept 1854  13y 5m --days
CARDER, Mary, consort of the late John Carder of Ky and the mother of Maria Lyon   d. 6 Mar 1843 80y
CLARK, Jeremiah  23 Jun 1833  42y 1m 0d
CONNOR, Hannah of Milford Conn. see Peat
                    Harriet (see Peat)
                    Ira  of Milford Conn see Peat
CONOVER, Tabitha Jane   wife of J. d. 9 Aug 1849 19y 7m 9d
DICKINSON, Samuel   son of Samuel K and Anna Dickinson  d. 3 Nov 1834 19y11m21d
DRAKE, Catherine  (see Edward Drake)
                Catherine B.  dau of John and Anna Ferris  wife of Francis
K. Drake,  17 Aug 1862  42y1m6d
                Edward F. son of Francis and Catherine,  12 Jul 1837 1y7m18d
                Francis (no date)

DUNN, Elizabeth wife of Samuel Dunn, d. 2 Jan 1843  73y8m11d
             Samuel  18 Apr 181748y4m8d
              Samuel W. ; son of Samuel and Elizabeth  21 Aug 1821  20y
EDWARDS, Ann  25 Jan 1779 - 24 Aug 1838 born in New York City
FERRIS, Abram  17 Mar 1843  20yr
                Anna, (Catherine B. Drake)
                Catherine B. (Drake)
                Elizabeth 1809 24y
                Elizabeth (no Dates)
                Ezra  H. (no dates)
                Hannah Mariah  dau of I. and P. Ferris,  18 Sept 1834 - 1 Jan 1844
                Harriet S.  31 Dec 1816 - 5 Sep 1849
                Henriette Francis; wife of Ezra;  26 Aug ----
                Herman Cope  25 Mar 1853 - 5 Feb 1863 (8)
                Hezekiah Smith son of John and Elizabeth  5 Nov 1805-10 Nov 1824
                I.   (No Dates)
                Isaac  July 1819  84y
                Rev. Isaac  12 apr 1796- 22 Dec 1860
                John  24 Dec 1840  62y
                John 28 Sept 1847 - 1 Feb 1848
                John
                Mary Sherwood d. 1825  83y
                Phebe wife of Rev Isaac Ferris, 22 Sep 1798 - 25 Feb 1882
                Rueben  30 Nov 1840  21y
                Sherwood  9 Oct 1841 - 28 Jan 1842
                Willis Dunham   17 Jan 1843 - 7 Sep 1871
FORD, Elijah
                Jerusha, wife of Elijah Ford,  8 aug 1793 - 26 Feb 1843
                ----, 6 May/Aug 1782 - 19 Jan 1831
FORMAN, Ann  dau of John and Phebe, 5 nov 1841 - 19 Jan 1845
                    Ho--- (broken) son of Jonathan,  Sept 1819 - 25 Sept 1832
                    J. M.
                    John and Phebe had an unnamed infant
                    Jonathan d. 1 Jan 1842   66y8m6d
                    Margaret inf, d. 7 Oct 1851  9m
                    Mary, consort of Jonathan,  d. 23 Mar 183?  58y 2m 16d
                    Mary J.  (may have been on the same stone as James M. son of J. M . and Susan Forman)
                    Mary
                    Phebe, wife of J. Forman dau of E. and J Ford, d. 27 Feb 1876
                    Susan, wife of J. M. Forman,  b. 19 Feb 1826  d. 16 Dec 1845
 FOWLER, Thomas (illegible)
GIFFIN, Albert d. 12 Apr 1865  18y 2m
                Mary  d.  18 Jun 1864  14y 9m (Children of John and Elizabeth)
HAMMEL, Ebenezer F.  d. 13 Nov 1824, 10y 27d
HARDING, Susan  dau of Lodnor and Mary   d. 11 Apr 1854  10y2m
HOLGET, Hannah M dau of Abraham L. and elizabeth  d. 12 Aug 1820 1y
HOPKINS, Benjamin F.  20 Dec 1859 - 8 Aug 1860
JONES, James T son of Philip and Harriet Jones, d. 16 Jan 1834 6m5d
KNISLEY, Jonas  son of J and S.  d. 3 Oct 1827  11y ---m 23d
                    Samuel 7 Mar 1841  39y 4m 13d
                    Solomon 16 may 1829 21y 19d
LAWRENCE, Jonah, son of Oliver and --- illegible,  no dates
                            Mary wife of Oliver Lawrence, formerly wife of Enos Marsh  d. 21 Nov 1866  61y 7m 23d
                            Sarah wife of Oliver  d. 11 Oct 1856  40y 1m 26d
                            Oliver  (see above)
LYON, Eliza dau of James and Maria Lyon,  d. 25 Mar 1846 23y
            Rev. James d. 1 Jan 1865  80y 2m 1d
            Maria (see Mary Carder and also Eliza Lyon)
MARSH, Albert  son of Wm and Mary  7 Dec 1841 - 18 Aug 1861
                Anna L dau of Wm and Mary  31 Oct 1848 - 7 Jan 1860
                Edward  son of Wm and Mary   2 Feb 1838 - 11 Oct 1860
                Enos (See mary Lawrence)
                Jonathan  28 Oct 1828 - 13 Oct 1885
                Lawrence Bell, dau of Wm and Mary  23 Jan 1852 - 2 Jan 1869
                Mary Forman  wife of Wm Marsh,  7 Jan 1808 - 6 Aug 1887
                Mary (See Mary Lawrence)
                William  1 Apr 1805 - 8 Oct 1872
MILLS, Abner d. 24 Jly 1836   69y
MORTON, Ann (see Charlotte Morton)
                    Charlotte S. dau of Joseph and Ann   d. 27 Jun 1830  2y 10m 6d
                    George  11 Jul 1849  30y 7m 23d
                    Henry   d. 8 Oct 1824  61y 7--- stone broken
                   Henry  b. Apr 1786  d. 17 Mar 1837 age (illegible)
                    J. A.  (footstone, no head stone left)
                    Joseph H.  d. 9 Dec 1866  75y
                    Maria  (see Danforth Ball grandson of Joseph and Ann Morton)
                    Mary, consort of Henry d. 27 Aug 1850  86y
NASH, Martha, consort of John Nash, b. 7 Oct 1778  d. 20 Apr 1856
PATTON, Jacob M.  b. 31 Jan 1804  d. 31 Dec 1866
PEAT, Harriet, wife of John Peat, dau of Ira and Hannah Connor, b. 6 Feb
1793 in Milford Conn, d. 30 Oct 1868
            Ira C,  son of John and Harriet, d. 15 Sep 1846,  17y 3m 3d
RIGGLE, George (see Sarah Riggle)
                George W.  son of Jacob and Ruth  d. 6 Aug 1839 1y6m18d
                Jacob, See George W.
                 Sarah, wife of George Riggel, deceased ,   d. 22 Dec 1853 77y 1m 27d
                Ruth (See George W.)
SEAMAN, Sarah Wade Whiteley, wife of A. Seaman, b. 29 Apr 1831  (stone broken)
SHAW, James L.  son of-----, and Evaline Shaw,   d. 12 Oct 1840, 11y
SMITH, Abraham  d. 24 Apr 1815  39y, Native of Virginia
            E.C.  no date
            J.H.  no date
            Jesse d. 17 Aug 1833  34y 1m 24d
            Monroe son of J. H. and E.C. Smith   d. 14 Jun 1828  9m 7d
WHITELEY, Sarah Wade (see Seaman)




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