Bull Creek Cemetery, nr. Kenansville, Osceola County, Florida File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Limbrecht Lynch (no email address given) USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. This file may not be removed from this server or altered in any way for placement on another server without the consent of the State and USGenWeb Project coordinators and the contributor. *********************************************************************** February 12, 1998 By: Sharon Limbrecht Lynch Bull Creek Cemetery located East off of U.S. Route 441 on Ten Mile Road near Kenansville, Osceola County, Florida Cemetery located on the North side of Ten Mile Road and South of Bull Creek and Billy Lake in a high sand scrub area after driving through 2 gates and a pond. Parked next to a barbed wire fence and walked North through the aluminum gate following open white sand path in scrub to chain link fence which encloses Bull Creek Cemetery. There is a small gate on the South side of Cemetery fence. All the grave markers faced the East. There were 16 marked graves. There were 5 stone/concrete markers and 11 small, half circle, bronze colored aluminum markers from Bass Funeral Home. On the right side of the small gate was a long wooden plaque on poles. (NOTE: You will notice that the names burned into the long wooden Bull Creek Cemetery plaque and the names on some of the grave markers are spelled different. I copied these spellings down as they were the day I visited this cemetery. Grave markers with different information than the wooden Cemetery plaque are Numbers 1, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, and 16. Also on Charley Nettles(#13) stone/concrete grave marker the 6 in the birth year 1896 was written backwards "189o/". There was a row of stones laid on either side of graves 1 & 2 marking the side boundaries.) The long wooden Bull Creek Cemetery plaque had the following information burned into it: 1859 BULL CREEK CEMETERY 1919 Land Donated by William R. Billy Nettles W. R. Billy Nettles 1859-1919 Katherine Sullivan Storey Charlie Nettles 1896-1911 William Unbanks Fred Nettles 1916-1916 Hardy Tyner Lela Lena Nettles 1901-1901 Jessie Storey Joseph Nettles 1903-1903 Etta Hancock 16 years old Babies of: John & Jean Storey 1 Florido Herndon 1 Henry & Sis Savage 2 Barned & Brody Savage 1 Lizzie Davis 1 son ??? Nettle Davis 1 Thanks to Fate Nettles son of W. R. Nettles for the caring and upkeep of Cemetery. Four graves are unmarked. (NOTE: The last 2 names under the "Babies of" were faded out and this was the best that could be made of what was there.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Barney Savage Baby (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 2. Henry Savage Baby (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 3. Katherine S. Storey (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 4. Sam Storey Baby (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 5. Etta Hancock (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 6. Hardy Tiner Born Jan. 19, 1905 Died May 18, 1912 (stone marker maybe white marble) 7. Lizzie Davis (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 8. Flarde Herndan Baby (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 9. Jessie Storey (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 10. John Storey Baby (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 11. Billie Nettles Borned 1860 Died Oct 29, 1919 (home made stone/concrete marker) 12. Fred Nettles Borned Nov 4, 1916 Died Jan 4, 1917 (home made stone/concrete marker) 13. Charley Nettles Born Sep 10, 1896 Died Oct 27, 1910 (home made stone/concrete marker) 14. Joseph Nettles Bo 1903 (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 15. Lelcr Nettles Bo 1901 (metal marker from Bass Funeral Home) 16. W. A. Eubank Born Nov 9, 1849 Died Nov 11, 1913 (flat stone/concrete marker with small square foot stone with initials W A carved in it) (NOTE: Mary Phillips said the W. A. in her great grandfathers name stood for William Allen Eubank. She also said that W. A. and Mary Elizabeth (Rogers) Eubank had a daughter buried in this cemetery. Her name was Osceola "Ola" Eubank born about 1888. She was married to a Thornton Powers and was pregnant in her teen years when she ran to open a gate for him and fell. Osceola died a short time later in childbirth. Osceola Powers and her child were buried next her father's grave. There was no grave marker for her and her child.)