Author: LeAnn Brewster

The Directors of the Cheyenne Cemetery are listed in the Cheyenne Star of January 27, 1910. They are H.D. Cox, Milo Burlingame, and R.N. Higgins. They requested interested people “come to the Cheyenne Cemetery February 7, 1910, to do repairs and improvements. Many graves are badly sunken and all who can bring wagons and teams…

SW1/4 of 1-12-26 Located 8 miles west and 1 mile south of Grimes, OK. CULVER, Cora Elizabeth 1897 – 20DEC1902 Dau of Willard William CULVER and Maudie Estella (MATTHEWS).  Family stories say she died of dust pneumonia. MATHEWS, Maudie Estelle no dates NABORS, Baby no dates NABORS, Martha Mattie 12AUG1900 – 01SEP1907

The site was picked in April 1902 by Mr. FREW. The FREWs lived, in a cellar, about a mile west of where the cemetery is now located. The top of the cellar was built with logs and tons of dirt were piled over the logs. April was a very wet month that year and the…

NE 24-15-26 Howard METCALFE says the cemetery is called Findley because the first one buried there was a child of the FINDLEYs. Howard says his grandmother, Mary CARSON, tried to help save the baby but to no avail. There are several cement stones but most are red rocks and there are signs that tell, at…

SHARP, Rosetta Ruth “Rose” B 28OCT1925, Died 8DEC2016, w/o Steve Sharp, Poet, Enthusiastic Christian, Worked in Drug Store, sold shoes 20 years.

Location NE 1/4 10-11-26 2 miles north and 1 west of Sweetwater, Oklahoma ABNER, Alva C. 1879 – 1957 ALBIN, Almeda Myers 1852 – 1917 Wife of Ura A. ALBIN, Cassie A. 1906 – 1906 Dau of John & Sarah ALBIN, George Arthur 18JAN1893 – 10JAN1979 Veteran WW I ALBIN, John 17JUN1866 – 19JAN1937 ALBIN,…

Located in the NW 1/4 of 25-15-25 BALLENGER, Baby No date Inf of Dr & Mollie BALLENGER, Baby No date Inf of Dr & Mollie BALLENGER, Bess 1898 – 1918 Dau of Dr & Mollie BALLENGER, Ivy 1899 – 1922 Dau of Dr & Mollie BALLENGER, Mollie 1874 – 1922 Wife of Dr. Ballenger CANTRELL,…

CALDER, Mildred G., Born 21MAR1914, Died 16FEB1915 daughter of John and Norma Calder CARLSON, John Edward B 25JUN1864, Died 15FEB1936,  h/o Mathilda Lindberg

On 13 January 1900, John Loring DAVIS deeded ten acres, legally described as the SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Section 12, Township 13 North Range 21 West of the Indian Meridian to the Red Hill Cemetery Association. The elected members of the association were: W. T. PEACE, R. H. DUNLAP, William…

Located in SW 1/4 of Section 21-16-21 The Red Star Cemetery was first laid out about 1903. The original survey was made by three men of the community. ADAMS, William A. 1861 – 1932 ALBIRGHT, Emma Loraine South 20JUL1913 – 22NOV1996 ALBRIGHT, Alva Hughie 19MAY1906 – 19OCT1988 ALBRIGHT, Anna No date – . ALBRIGHT, Asa…