Creek Stand AME Zion Church Cemetery contains the graves of Creek Stand's earliest African-American pioneers and their descendants. Oral history holds that many enslaved people were buried here generations before the original church was built in 1895. These ancestors came to Macon County from 1820 to 1850 with their enslavers during "Alabama Fever" and made vital contributions to establishing and sustaining the new settlement. After the Civil War, formerly enslaved people adopted surnames from slaveholding settlers such as Dr. James E. Ellison, who donated and sold land for the church building in 1893 and 1894. Trustees of the new church included Russell Dawkins, Stephen Pace, Sidney Mahone, George Washington Pace, and Taylor Robinson. Several of the community's first African-American landowners may have donated land that established the church cemetery. The slave burial ground lies within the flat grassy area near the original church site and extends into the adjacent woods, a place families regularly maintained through the late 1950s before it became overgrown and graves were no longer visible. Several weathered headstones with illegible inscriptions have been found in the woods, and the oldest legible markers date to the early 1900s, showing continuity of surnames from past to present and an enduring kinship shaped by neighboring farms, marriage, and church membership.