Cemetery Name

Dick's Creek

Township

Status

First Known Burial

General Condition

Tombstone Condition

OGS Cemetery #

Location:

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STR/ VMD

Property Account:

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Map:

• USGS GNIS - Dicks Creek Cemetery; FID #1039705
• Google Map at coordinates 39° 29' 22"N, 84° 19' 01"W
• TopoZone map at coordinates 39° 29' 22"N, 84° 19' 01"W
• Warren County Auditor for Dicks Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery [see county aerial map of the property]
  • Property Account # 2433059, Parcel ID 08333000010] - 0.5 acres
  • The 32.7 acre Grace Baptist Church campus is located across the street from the cemetery on the West side of Union Road, Property Account #2304487, Parcel ID 07034760050
• Aerial Image of the cemetery location from Windows Live Local - looking west across Union Road towards the Grace Baptist Church [click on the compass points for views from different angles]
• Range 4 North Township 3 East Section 33 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map showing the Presbyterian Church
• The Franklin Chronicle, Franklin, Ohio, Thursday 22 Oct 1931 - "Seven Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers to be Marked by Patriotic Society."
• "Residents, officials balk at talk of moving cemetery; Dicks Creek Cemetery is home for the remains of veterans of Revolutionary War, Civil War"
  by Ed Richter, staff writer, The Middletown Journal, Tuesday, March 20, 2007
• "Developer opposed to moving cemetery"
  by Ed Richter, staff writer, The Middletown Journal, Friday, March 30, 2007

Cemetery History

Dicks Creek Cemetery, one of the oldest surviving cemeteries in Warren County, is the final resting place for many of the original settlers in the Blue Ball area. It was established in 1810 when Joseph Parks and his son, Robert, donated a parcel of ground on Union Road for a church and an acre of ground adjacent to it for a cemetery. The first known burial is for John Bigger who died 5 Dec 1809.

From various sources , we know of 133 burials in the cemetery. Gravestones for 88 of them have been located and photographed. This last known burial in the cemetery is said to be that of Bruce Mell in the 1920s.

The cemetery is the final resting place for Seven Revolutionary War veterans (one of the highest concentrations in Warren County) Joseph Parks, Robert Boal, Joseph Green, Andrew Karr, James Wilson, John McMeen and John Bryant. It is also the final resting place for Civil War soldiers John Logan and Theophilus L. Todd. . Gravestones remain for all of these patriots except the gravestone for Joseph Parks.

Cemetery Transcriptions

• D.A.R. TURTLECREEK CHAPTER:
  Early Vital Records, Volume 4 page 10.
• WARREN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY:
  Vol 7 Old Cemeteries in six townships, pages 420-423
  Dana Palmer, Theresa & Alex Baughman  visited the cemetery in Nov 2003 to photograph all extant gravestones in the cemetery. Other photos have been contributed by Amber Geisler.  These photos have been added to the Warren County, Ohio Virtual Cemetery Project and will be incorporated into a future update of their cemetery books.
• Other Known Transcriptions
  • "Epic of Blue Ball Ohio" published 1978 by the Blue Ball Historical Society, pages 90 & 91 contains a listing of 83 burials in the cemetery
  • In September, 1995, Opal Barret privately produced a book listing Dicks Creek burials with a grid map to show the relative location of the various stones Copies are available for viewing at the Warren County Historical Society and at the Warren County Genealogical Society

Gravestone Images

Gravestone photos for the Warren County, Ohio Virtual Cemetery Project are being posted to the Warren County OHGenWeb Project
To view images ===> Dicks Creek Cemetery
To submit images ==> email to Arne H. Trelvik at atrelvik@gmail.com [please send high resolution digital images if available]