Several of my Bronaugh and Knowles ancestors are buried in the Barren Creek Cemetery in Polk Co. I was lucky enough to be able to visit the cemetery two years ago, plus the courthouse, museum, genealogical society, and library. I have a question about something that is in a cemetery book (I don't know which one) that includes Barren Creek Cemetery. It says "From an undated newspaper clipping "Early Memories of Barren Creek Church", Aunt Betty Williams says, "The cemetery was started in about 1867....(the first two burials are discussed and then she says) "no one was buried there until the next summer and then it was Uncle Tommy Knowles." "Thomas Knowles was born in 1785 and died in 1871..." Thomas Knowles is one of my ancestors. I have him on the census in 1850 and 1860 in Polk Co. Does anyone have any information on the clipping "Early Memories of Barren Creek Church" or any other information about the Barren Creek church? I'm trying to learn more about this Knowles family. (Two of Thomas Knowles' daughters--Ellen and Judah-- married into my Bronaugh line. Thanks, Cindy Shebbear: A village in Devon, England. From the Old English, "sceaftbearu" --the grove where poles were cut.