Creef's Family Cemetery - East Lake, Dare Co., NC

Dare Co., NC Cemeteries

Creef's Family Cemetery
East Lake, NC

Directions: From Manns Harbor going west on Hwy. 64 this cemetery is on the side of the road just before you get to Robertson's Landing Rd. (SR 1169). It is well maintained and visible from the road. Google Maps for this cemetery.
Photographed: Nov. 23, 2001 by J.A. Owens.

Extra information is indicated in brackets. If you happen to have photos of headstones from this cemetery and would like to submit them please drop me a line. Click on underlined names for a picture of the tombstone.

NAME	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS / INSCRIPTION
Creef, A.E. [Ann Elizabeth]	May 20, 1852	Nov. 10, 1869	Daughter of G.W. Creef & Margrett his wife
Creef, Arthur W.	June 4, 1877	Nov. 24, 1900
Creef, Calciedonia S.	Nov. 12, 1870	Apr. 5, 1963	Mother [see obituary]
Creef, Civility	June 13, 1854	Dec. 4, 1898	Wife of J.W. Creef - Asleep in Jesus
Creef, Miss Edna [Funeral Home Marker]	[June 7, 1889]	Dec. 25, 1950	Age 61 years 6 months 18 days [Death Certificate]
Creef, Elmer L.	Dec. 23, 1897	July 4, 1908	We love him, yes, we loved him. But angles [sic] loved him more.
Creef, Grady [A.]	[Sept.] 1900 [1900 census]	[Apr. 14] 1903	[see April 24, 1903 newspaper article]
Creef, John Sanders	Oct. 20, 1863	Jan. 20, 1941	Father
Creef, J.W. [James Washington]	Jan. 18, 1850	May 8, 1928	Father - A precious one from us has gone.
Creef, Nancy S.	Feb. 18, 1866	May 10, 1930	Mother
Creef, Otis Elwood	Dec. 18, 1890	June 15, 1963	[see obituary which states he was age 82 at his death which would put his birth date at c1880. Social Security Deaths state his birth as Dec. 23, 1880. His 1918 WWI Draft Card was signed "Otis Ellwood Creef and he gave his birth date as Dec. 23, 1881. He lived in Philadelphia, Pa. at that time.]
Creef, Phebe Ann	Jan. 24, 1865	Apr. 14, 1903	[see April 24, 1903 newspaper article]
Creef, Rovania	1883	1889
Creef, Willis M.	Dec. 6, 1876	May 29, 1904
Nixon, Julia Pinner [Funeral Home Marker]	[Aug. 20] 1906 [NC Deaths]	[Oct. 12] 1981 [NC Deaths]	[Julia Anna Marie Twiddy was the daughter of John Thomas Twiddy & Rhoda Jane Crain. Julia was first married to Herbert Lee Pinner in Elizabeth City, NC on Sept. 29, 1925. After Herbert died in 1960 she married William Porter Nixon, widower of Mary Angeline "Sweetie" Meekins, on Oct. 6, 1962 in East Lake.]
Nixon, William P. [Funeral Home Marker]	[June 1] 1888	[Oct. 13] 1973	[Death Certificate] [see obituary]
[Pinner, Courtland Albert]	[Apr. 17, 1875]	Jun. 11, 1950	Father [Death Certificate]
Pinner, Herbert L. [Funeral Home Marker]	[May 14] 1902 [Delayed Birth]	[Dec. 5] 1960	[see obituary]
[Pinner, Nora Elizabeth Rogers]	[June 21, 1871]	Sept. 5, 1925	Mother [Death Certificate] [Wife of Courtland Albert Pinner]
Simpson, Jimmy D.	Feb. 1, 1934	Aug. 19, 1986	Pfc. US Army Korea
unknown			Carved on cement slab - 22 1931 - could be Feb. 2, 1931 or something entirely different