CREECH CEMETERY Whitehall, Columbus County, NC Submitted by Dave High, June 1998 North Carolina, Columbus County, NC All rights reserved, 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Search: Ctrl + F This cemetery is located on the Early Caffee farm on Whitehall Road, SR1702, 3/4 mile from Red Hill Road, SR1700. It is about 1000 feet off the road, beside the Jean Caffee Powers house. There is a number of unmarked graves, perhaps as many as 50. The cemetery was surveyed by David B. High on June 3, 1998. 01 Ralph W. Burney, 2/18/1915-9/10/1957, PFC, US Army, WW II 02 Leardes E. "Pete" Peay, 11/15/1914-9/16/1979 03 Iola Caffee Peay, 10/17/1917- , same stone as #02 04 Marcus D. Creech, 11/15/1855-3/8/1935 05 H.[Herbert] Lenwood Creech, 8/4/1917-1/23/1973, NC Cpl, US Army, WW II 06 Anna M. Creech, 9/1/1919- , same stone as #05 07 Addie Cornelia Creech, 11/28/1888-8/11/1964 08 A. B. Creech, 9/5/1877-1/16/1924 09 Mary B., daughter of A. B. & Addie Creech, 10/30/1914-5/2/1919 10 Elva M. Barefoot, wife of J. W. Doorse, 1859-1936 11 T. J. Barefoot, 1/21/1853-10/31/1913 12 Four unmarked children's graves 13 John Thomas Caffee, 10/18/1877-2/25/1950 14 Margaret [Baldwin] Caffee, 1/10/1885-2/11/1962, same stone as #13 15 Pinksey M., son of J. T. & Margaret Caffee, 7/4/1915-8/7/1934 16 Clyde Caffee, 6/29/1923-10/12/1943 17 Arthur Caffee, 6/14/1919-9/22/1992 18 Lucille [Bowen] Caffee, 2/7/1920- , same stone as #17 19 Y. F. Penny, 4/13/1895-7/2/1957 20 Lena Smith Penny, 9/17/1900-7/22/1989 21 John H. Smith, 9/5.1869-1/9/1954 22 Sarah Roxannah, wife of J. A. Smith, 5/9/1863-5/16/1921 23 Isdell Grady Smith, 6/7/1903-5/28/1949 24 Janie Ellis Smith, 9/18/1905-6/28/1995, same stone as #23 25 Mary Lee Smith, 6/6/1935-1/3/1956 26 Lucille Smith Rhodes, 8/12/1928-1/3/1956 27 Calvin C. Creech, 1/30/1844-12/11/1909, Co H, 51st NC Regt, CSA 28 Mary C. Creech, 12/6/1862-4/13/1930 29 Wooden marker 30 Zelma Burney Barnhill, 3/12/1912-3/7/1946 31 Charles Luther High, 1/9/1931-12/18/1988, Us Army, Korea 32 Charles R. High, 12/21/1970 33 Mary M. [Caffee] High, 9/9/1907-- 34 Oscar H. High, 6/29/1906-4/5/1952, same stone as #33 35 H. C. Creech, 5/14/1848-7/1/1921 36 Roseman G. Creech, wife of H. C. Creech, 1/3/1852-6/6/1908 37 Infant son of H. C. & R. G. Creech, 11/14/1885-9/30/1886 38 Infant son of Norman & Liela Sykes, 10/15/1942 39 Clarinda C. Sykes, 6/11/1865-1/20/1935 40 Henry L. Sykes, 10/9/1873-5/21/1956, same stone as #39 41 Infant twin sons of Clarinda & Henry Sykes, b/d 1906 42 M. V. Coble, 1882-1926 43 Nellie Ray, infant daughter of Lucinda & Isaac M. Ray. 9/5/1912-8/2/1913 44 Lucinda Creech, wife of Isaac Melton Ray, 11/7/1878-4/6/1913 45 Henry Marshall Creech, 11/8/1849-6/12/1909 46 Martha Elizabeth Byrd, wife of Henry Marshall Creech, 10/7/1861-11/15/1951 47 Billy Earl Smith, 2/22/1954-4/22/1954 48 Infant son of Arlene & Hezekiah Smith, 1/5/1956-1/6/1956 The following graves were in a separate section at the rear of the cemetery. 49 Jethro J, Odom, 9/1/1859-5/5/1863 50 Lewis N. Odom, 9/27/1861-10/20/1870 51 May A. Odom, 10/27/1880-10/13/1883 52 Alexander C. Odom, 10/6/1833-10/16/1886, Co H, 51st NC Regt, CSA 53 Mary A. Odom, 8/12/1839-6/5/1924 ©1998 Jerome Smith, Columbus County Coordinator Columbus County, North Carolina, USA All rights reserved. ====================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogy information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must contact the submitter or the listed USGenWeb archivist.