Indian Creek Cemetery

Jasper, Jasper County TX

This is of my great-great grandfather, Richard E. Powell b 12 Nov 1812 d 25 Nov 1880.                   Please note that the gate is missing as it must have been stolen since the last time I was here. 

Jane Sanford Keppler

Jane Sanford Keppler with granddaughter Cierra Laster.

Cierra Laster is looking at the graves of her gggg grandparents Micajah  Hart & Sophia Tyson Hart.

Micajah  Hart JR. 15 Jan 1816 Greene, NC d 22 Sept 1864 Jasper TX

Sophia Tyson Hart b 18 Mar 1821 Greenville, Pitt NC d 11 April 1888 Jasper, TX

SEALE, RICHARD (ca. 1797-1875). Richard (Uncle Dick) Seale, founder of the oldest church for blacks in Texas, was born a slave around 1797 in Alexandria, Virginia. The date of his birth is uncertain, but he treasured a silver coin given to him, according to his mother, by Gen. George Washington when the child's crying during a parade attracted Washington's attention. Seale acquired some education and became overseer for his master, Joshua Seale, whose plantation was west of Jasper in the Indian Creek community near Bevilport, Jasper County, Texas. Richard Seale was a devout Christian, interested in the spiritual welfare of his people. About 1850, with Joshua Seale's help, he organized the Dixie Baptist Church, of which he was pastor. Part of the original church still stood in January 1967, when the structure was awarded a historic building medallion. Seale died in 1875 and was buried at Indian Creek in the Seale family cemetery.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: William Seale, A History of the Dixie Baptist Church (MS, Dixie Baptist Church, Jasper, Texas). William Seale, Texas Riverman: The Life and Times of Captain Andrew Farney Smyth (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966).

William Seale

Click here for Powell's buried in Magnolia Springs Cemetery, Jasper Texas.

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