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Description: Also known as the Boggy Creek Cemetery, this pioneer family cemetery was established in the Boggy Creek community for William Rufus Lock and his descendants. Lock had been granted exemption from serving in the Confederate Army so he could maintain order in his home town in Echols County, Georgia. His son, Pvt. James Calvin Lock, fought in the last conflict of the Union Army’s campaign through Georgia and Alabama known as “Wilson’s Raid” or the Battle of Girard in Columbus, Georgia, on April 16, 1865. After the Civil War, Lock and his family relocated to Boggy Creek from Georgia where they farmed and raised livestock during the open range years. This cemetery was part of the original land purchased by Nancy P. Locke in 1881 from the Trustees of the State of Florida’s Internal Improvement Fund for the sum of one dollar an acre. Among the burials is Jane Green, a well-known, independent pioneer woman of Creek Indian ancestry who ran cattle with Mose Barber and had a St. John’s River creek and swamp named after her. The cemetery also contains graves of veterans from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.