Trout Creek Cemetery

Trout Creek Cemetery, originally part of the James West Survey, dates to the early 1860s. The land was later owned by Mrs. Frances Ann Dyer, and after her death it passed to her daughter Udora Dyer Ratcliff and son-in-law K. R. Ratcliff. Local oral tradition holds that the earliest burials may have been area Indians or slaves from the Salem community, but the oldest documented graves are those of John G. Barnett and his wife Christina. Also buried here are Frances Ann Dyer, though her grave is unmarked, and K. R. and Udora Dyer Ratcliff. The cemetery contains the graves of six Civil War veterans—Andrew Jackson Herrin, Stephen B. Herrin, William Henry Jarvis Holmes, Thomas Harrison Holmes, Jeremiah Patrick O' Brien, and J. R. Sise—as well as veterans of World War I, World War II, and Korea. Since the turn of the century, members of the Trout Creek Cemetery Association have cared for the historic graveyard, and the association was officially chartered in 1973. An important part of Newton County history, the cemetery remains a reminder of the area's pioneer heritage.

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