Many of the Cross Creek, Florida friends Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote about in her book “Cross Creek” are buried in the Antioch Cemetery near Island Grove, FL just east of Cross Creek. James M. Stephens has written what he thinks many of those friends would say about themselves and their relationship with the late Pulitzer-Prize-winning author.
Donna Green-Townsend, a board member of the MKR Friends of the Farm, captured those narratives on video on a couple of James Stephens walking tours of the Antioch Cemetery in 2018. The walking tours were sponsored by the Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm organization.
Note: When Jim makes reference to someone “coming here in…” he is referring to when the various folks ended up buried in the Antioch Cemetery.
While there are several of MKR’s friends buried in the Antioch Cemetery, there are several (such as Dorsey, Floyd and Preston Townsend, Ella Mae Slater and Snow Slater) who are buried in the Townsend Cemetery near Grove Park, FL. As of this writing it is not widely known where Marsh Turner or Mr. Martin are buried.
Antioch Cemetery 
A tour in the Antioch Cemetery 
MKR and Norton Baskin’s gravesite 
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings gravesite 
Norton Baskin’s gravesite 
George Fairbanks headstone 
Berney and Theresa Bass tombstone 
Berney Lee Bass tombstone 
Zelma Cason gravesite 
Zelma’s mother Charity’s tombstone 
Turner Z. Cason headstone 
Widow Slater’s gravesite 
Rodney Slater tombstone 
Henry Slater tombstone 
Chet Crosby tombstone 
Tom Morrison gravesite 
Sally Morrison Smith gravesite 
Antioch Cemetery