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Old Dezarn Cemetery

Surveyed by

Harold O. Goins

Published in

Pioneers of Beech Creek Cemetery Book

This Cemetery is located on Little Beech Creek directly across the creek and about 250 feet from the Little Beech Creek Cemetery. It is located at an elevation of about 20 feet above the creek. This may be the oldest cemetery in the Beech Creek area. There are a total of about 11 old natural field or creek stones. None have any markings.

Francis ‘Frankie’ Dezarn and his family were the first settlers in the lower Beech Creek area. They arrived in the very early 1800’s and built a home in a small clearing about 150 feet from where Beech creek empties into Goose Creek River. As years passed by, his family migrated up Beech Creek and into the Little Beech Creek area.

Older Dezarn family members today recall that when they were children their parents and grandparents frequently decorated this cemetery with flowers. It has unfortunatedly grown over with brush and vines. Older Dezarn family records show that 6 of the stones in this cemetery are the graves of the following people.

Name Birth Death Misc. Comments

Dezarn, Caleb c1832 s/o Francis ‘Frankie’ Dezarn &

Elizabeth Gillion

h/o Eliz. ‘Betty’ Davidson

m 8-18-1855

Dezarn, Eliz. T. Liberal w/o Wm. ‘Hossy Bill’ Dezarn

T = Terozino

Dezarn, Francis ‘Frankie’ c1789 h/o Eliz. Gillion

Dezarn, Ransom c1809 s of Francis & Eliz.

h/o Sarah ‘Sally’ Samples

Ragel, John h/o Martha ‘Patsy’ Dezarn

Ragel, Martha ‘Patsy’ c1812 d/o Francis & Eliz. Dezarn

w/o John Ragel

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