Village Creek Cemetery
Connersville Township, Fayette County, Indiana
39° 37'36" N 85° 06'39"W
Village Creek Baptist Church was organized on 24 July 1824. Charter members were Robert Gilky, Thomas Wolverton, William Denman, William Sparks, Phineas McCray, Stephen Harlan, James Wood, Sarah Gilky, Mary Denman, Mary Sparks, Mary Harlan, Sarah McCray and Hannah McCray.[1] Mary Palmer Sparks, daughter of Rev. Joshua Palmer, is buried in this cemetery along with her husband, William Sparks, their sons Rev. William Sparks and Hiram Sparks, grandson Hiram F. Sparks, and a number of other relatives. Also buried here are Bennett Langston and Samuel Harlan who came with the Palmers to Indiana from Laurens County, South Carolina.
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[1] History of Fayette County, Indiana: Her People, Industries and Institutions (Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1917), 420.
[1] History of Fayette County, Indiana: Her People, Industries and Institutions (Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1917), 420.
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