Name: Painter Creek Cemetery

Active: ?, probably not.

Location: Between French Lick and Wickliffe, IN.  Take county road 875 W off State Road 145 (less than two miles south of Patoka Memorial Cemetery) and travel on the road for about a mile and half.  This cemetery is next to a saw mill.

Info: Small cemetery which appears to be inactive.  It is next to an abandoned building which was either a church or a one room school.

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Here is an almost complete list of burials.  Please note, there may be some inaccuracies.  A lot of the tombstones are very hard to read, so we did the best we could.  If you have any corrections, please send it along!

Malinda E. Parks - 4/14/1852 - 7/11/1897
Samuel Parks - 9/19/1849 - 2/1/1925
Mary M. Lankford - 6/21/1834 - 6/26/1906
William R. Lankford - 10/15/1873 - 6/6/1881
Mary Lankford - 2/1/1871 - 4/30/1889
Hiram Parks - 2/13/1854 - 12/6/1899
Nancy M.J. Davis - 4/17/1861 - 6/16/1896
James H. Davis - 8/5/1832 - 11/6/1906
Mary J. Davis - 2/13/1837 - 11/22/1898
Infant son Parks - 1/5/1888
Mattie (?) Jones - 11/2/1890 - 12/25/1903
Alex Jones - 9/19/1871 - 3/6/1904
Michael Jones - 1823 - 1882 (?)
Frances A. Jones - 5/20/1845 - 8/30/1901
Twin daughters of J. & D. Riley - 7/23/1929
Kevin Riley - 6/19/1930 - 3/18/1931
T. Francis Riley - 10/22/1926 - 3/23/1931
Lucinda Riley - 1/1/1875 - 6/13/1935
Thomas S. Riley - 8/10/1863 - 2/8/1934
Laura Belle Allen Nicholson
Emily Allen - 1851 - 1923
Abimelech Allen - 1847 - 1894
Sarah Jane Allen - 1869 - 1923
John William Allen - 1886 - 1950
Christopher Lee Parks - 10/19/1877 - 2/7/1925
Nancy E. Parks - 3/26/1891 (15 years 8 months and 18 days)
Ezra Parks PVT US Army WWI - 1891 - 1980
Eli Jones - 10/8/1841 - 12/25/1922
William B. North - 8/15/1881 - 9/21/1882
Isaha (?) North - 8/11/1877 - 9/17/1882
Roy E. North - 6/11/1898 - 12/25/1916
Clarance E. Gilliatt - 4/24/1888 - 10/14/1902
Enochl (?) Gilliatt - 1867 - 1870 (?)
James A. Gilliatt - 1/7/1870 - 6/18/1917
David F. Wade - 4/2/1829 - 10/30/1906
Mary Jane Wade - 4/13/1852 - 10/29/1930
Francis Lee Wade - 3/16/1915 - 4/26/1931
Oma Franoe (?) - 1888 - 1898
Pearl Wade - 4/17/1885 - 11/29/1934
David N. Wade - 7/8/1884 - 2/16/1944
Catherine Parks - 10/28/1838 - 1/23/1881
Eanic Parks - 1/18/1874 - 12/4/1875
Alex Parks - 3/26/1837 - 2/1/1905
Josephine J. Allen - 1885 - 1920
Lewis S. Allen - 1884 - 1936
Vernia I. Allen - 1915 - 1930
Maudie P. Allen - 1905 - 1905
Lula Parks - 1894 - 1923
Amos Parks - 1889 - 1980
William M. Parks - 5/18/1862 - 12/15/1947
Sarah E. Parks - 1/1/1865 - 2/19/1918
Lucy A. Dillard - 1858 - 1936
Lula E. Morris - 12/28/1892 - 11/2/1899
Volney B. Dillard - 3/24/1856 - 12/19/1900
J. Floyd Dillard - 1885 - 1946
Myrtle D. East - 1883 - 1925
Lou Smith - 5/21/1877 (?) - 10/25/1902
Children of Lou - Glady and Jewell Smith
Dora (J.) - 7/8/1869 - 5/26/1904
Myrtle Jones - 5/6/1882 - 3/10/1906