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Farming For A Better Future, page 216
Town Creak Church & Cemetery
The church that accompanied Landersville/Town Creek School was Town Creek Church on the 1960 USGS topographic map. Today, it is Town Creek Number One Missionary Baptist Church. The church is located on the north side of Old Alabama 24 at the intersection of County Road 111. The church also has a cemetery with a sign that reads “Town Creek No.1 Missionary Baptist Church, Landersville, Alabama Cemetery." It has about 77 known burials.
The cemetery appears to have been first used by the Gallaway and Taylor families. The earliest burial is Delilah Ponder Gallaway (1797-1834). These burials most likely represent an old plantation cemetery for white people. There is a possibility that there are unmarked slave graves as well.
The cemetery either went unused or graves did not have markers in the late 19th century through the time that the school closed in the 1950s. Following this hiatus, the church was established and Gertrude Brow Hubbard (1924-1959) was the first known burial at Town Creek No.1 in the 20th century. Most of the burials are from the 1980s to the present. Gholston, Jackson, Owens, Warren, and Young are common family names here.
(Left) Sign to Town Creek No. 1 Missionary Baptist
Church Cemetery, 2009 (Findagrave.com, User FHTerry) (Below) Excerpt of 1930 Census with Robert L. and Bessie Owens (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com) (Bottom) Excerpt of 1940 Census with Annie Warren (National Archives and Records Administration via Ancestry.com)
(Above) Photograph of Audry and Adrion Otilla Owens Warren (Findagrave.com, user Anthony Echols)
(Above) Photograph of Anna (Annie) Ophillea Caroline
Stovall Warren (Findagrave.com, user Anthony Echols)
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