CRAB GRASS CREEK CEMETERY (aka Lanier Cemetery, Deer Park Cemetery & Sumner's Place Cemetery), Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area, Osceola County, Florida File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Limbrecht Lynch, (Doclynch@aol.com). 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. *********************************************************************** Directions: From Holopaw, Osceola County, Florida, head East on U.S. ighway 192 to Crab Grass Road turn Right (South) onto the dirt road. Travel about 5 miles on dirt road to Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area check-station. About ? mile past check-station turn Left (North) onto Cemetery Road. Travel about 2 miles (4x4 need to travel this dirt road) to high oak hammock, turn Right. Gate to Cemetery located about 50 yards on Right in white sugar sand, turkey oak & scrub oak area. A 10 foot aluminum gate with hog wire fence surrounds this old Cemetery. Visited in September 1997, May 9, 1998 and again on May 17, 2000. Attempted to visit Cemetery on February 12, 1998 but Cemetery Road was 5 feet under water in places. Marker number 21 was found on May 9, 1998 visit, it was not in Cemetery when I visited in September 1997. Marker number 22 was found on the May 17, 2000 visit. 1. Betty Raye Elmes Rainville Aug. 25, 1929 Oct. 4, 1984 (6' stone monument with RAINVILLE at base) 2. Kathrine Lanier Born: Mar. 17, 1816 Died: Jan. 15, 1895 Aged: 78 yrs, 9 mos, & 28 dys As a wife devoted, as a mother beloved, from loved ones on earth she parted to join the angels above. (6' stone monument surrounded by iron rail fence) 3. Lavonia Platt (Aluminum marker) 4. Katherine Raulerson (Aluminum marker) 5. Martha C. Oglesby Mother 1863 - 1883 (Stone marker) 6. Martha C. Oglesby 1863 - 1883 (Aluminum & bronze marker) 7. Lois Crosby (Aluminum marker) 8. Andrew W. Crosby Mar 18 1900 Feb 16 1924 Gone but not forgotten (Stone marker) 9. Olivia McWaters 1932 (Stone marker) 9a. OLEARY MCWATERS 1932 (Aluminum marker on same site as marker 9) 10. A. W. Crosby Apr. 5, 1856 Nov. 8, 1930 (Stone marker) 11. Catherine Crosby Mar. 22, 1863 May 8, 1947 (Stone marker) 12. Victoria A. Collins Apr. 1, 1908 May 22, 1934 (Stone marker) Please note: The date of death inscription on the marker is incorrect: It has May 10, 1933. 13. Babe Lanier (Aluminum marker) 14. Betty Lanier (Aluminum marker) 15. Denkem Cubbedge (Aluminum marker) 16. Haughty Cubbedge (Aluminum marker) (A wooden hitching rail extending from marker 15 to marker 16 with CUBBEDGE burned into center of wood. The wooden hitching rail has 3 chain hung wooden plaques. The first name of the person is burned into the wooden plaques and the third chain hung wooden plaque reads 1918 which is centered between their names: Haughty 1918 Denkem ) 17. Lamb Lanier (Aluminum marker) 18. Elon Lanier (Aluminum marker) 19. Corbett Lanier (Aluminum marker) 20. Kizzie Hall (Aluminum marker) 21. Owen Carl Glenn 1936 - 1996 (Aluminum & bronze marker) 22. Donald O. Jellison Nov. 23, 1929 Feb. 14, 2000 We Love You (Granite marker has a buck engraved below name next to dates.)