Dry Creek is a rural unincorporated community in the east-central portion of Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The geography of the area is slightly hilly, ranging from 80 to 135 feet (24 to 41 m) above sea level, consisting of mostly sandy soils with many creeks (not all dry) and ponds.

[2] Although no longer existing, the Dry Creek sawmill, built in 1841 for the expressed purpose of supplying lumber for doors and furnishings of the first Calcasieu Parish courthouse, was located on Mill Bayou, about one-fourth mile south of the current Dry Creek Cemetery.

Spears, Sr., gave permission for Ella Burnett, the infant niece of Lucy Cooper (discussed later), to be buried near the cedar tree in 1880.

Sources indicate that the Hanchey family may have lived in the Topsy area near Marsh Bayou for a short period of time before moving to Dry Creek, probably in early 1860s.

The Turners and Crumpler sisters and brother lived in Holmes County, Florida, before they took a long journey by wagon to Louisiana in 1852.

Several old Hanchey obituaries (over 100 years old) indicate the family first settled a few miles northeast of Lake Charles near the Calcasieu River in 1860.

Although this is only speculation, one Hanchey family member believes that there is some connection to the girl buried under the cedar tree.

It is not known if the Cooper family remained long at Marsh Bayou or returned to northern Vernon, as tax and property records for these areas were destroyed by the burning of Alexandria during the Civil War and the Lake Charles Fire in the early 1900s, but Property Tax Records of Angelina County, Texas, show that the family lived in Angelina County, Texas (Lufkin area) after the Civil War (1866-1873), then returning to Dry Creek.

The 1860 Census records of Imperial Calcasieu Parish do confirm that these three families were living in Dry Creek in the summer of 1860.