In this cemetery you will find tombstones of many of the prominent local families of the day, including the Spillers, Wrights, and Blissetts.

Across the dirt road from the cemetery, in a very overgrown area, is a nice stone monument that reads:

"Site of Big Creek Missionary Baptist Church
Organized January 10th, 1829, and existed until 1931. Was a constituent member of the Unions (now Pickens) Baptist Association on its organization in 1835. It was here on September 25, 1837, at a session of said association, that the split occurred among baptists over doctrines of missions in its early days. Erected and dedicated January 14th, 1945."



"This church is said to have been the oldest congregation in Pickens County and was organized in 1823 at the Garden (Enon), then moved to Aliceville.

Its second organization was at Yorkville (now Aliceville), by Elder Jacob Crocker in 1829.

Then at Big Creek on January 10, 1829, with fourteen members, with Rev. Charles Stewart as pastor; first Deacons were Notley Gore and Dempsey White. In two months, the congregation had increased to twenty members - one - "a black woman, Melly". At that date, slaves were given the opportunity to attach themselves to that church. In the next ten years, there were thirty-four black members, out of the whole list of one hundred an sixty four. In 1848 it was agreed to build a separate building for the black population. This church was the scene of a break in the Baptist denomination in 1837, the Missiouary Baptists continued in this church and the Hardshell Baptist established a new organization."
Earliest Burial: 01/01/1849

Latest Burial: 01/01/1934