A nice final resting spot with a pretty little chruch on the grounds. I used to run from the highway to the cemetery for cross country practice. The Rock Creek Church was started in 1844, by a group of Separate Baptists located in the southern part of Keokuk county. A cemetery was started on the church grounds and many of the headstones date back to the 1850's. A study of the stones reveals the large number of deaths of infants and children and also young mothers in the 1850-1870's time period. George C. Talley, who was killed during the Civil War animosities, was a resident of Jackson Township. He was burried in Rock Creek Cemetery and on his headstone is the following inscription: ~George C. Talley died August 1st 1863; aged 29yr, 5 mo, 27da. Died as a martyr to his religious and political opinions, shot down by highway men at South English, Iowa, Keokuk county, while bravely defending the same~ Though the Rock Creek Church as an organization has been disolved, the church building is still well maintained and occasionally used for funeral services.