Category: Cemeteries

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…

Located NE l/4 21-15-21 Dewey Twp This information comes from the book “Cemeteries and More” by Glena Belle CRANE. Updates and corrections were provided by Wanda PURCELL. ADAMS, Fannie L. 10MAR1939 – 01FEB1920 ADAMS, Richard 06NOV1832 – 06DEC1904 ADAMS, William 11JUL1808 – 13FEB???? Born in CA. ARNOLD, Isaac H. 31FEB1889 – 27DEC1901 BELL, Alvin W.…

Sometime near the turn of the century David Taylor THOMAS donated the first land for the cemetery. The cemetery is well kept. This information came from the book “Cemeteries and More” by Glena Belle CRANE. Updates and corrections have been provided by Wanda PURCELL.   First born—W.W. ASHER—-1825 First buried-George W. LEE–1903   ADERHOLD, Ella…

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…

The Kiowa Cemetery is located three miles south and three miles west of Hammon, Oklahoma on the southeast corner of Section 21, Township 13 Range 21 in Roger Mills County on the George and Nancy Lacey homestead. This information came from the book, “Cemeteries and More”, by Glena Belle CRANE. Please take a minute to…

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,…

NW 1/4 of Section 25-16-24 The first people buried here were O.K. POINDEXTER and his mother Martha. In 1986 Bud LIPPENCOTT and his wife Pauline deeded the land to the Pie Flat Cemetery Association. BARBER, Baby No dates Dau of Claude Barber BARBER, Clara 1875 – 1968 BARBER, Claude 1900 – 1968 BARBER, Edythe May…

HAWK, Catherine Frances Born 1963 – Died 8MAR2015 JOHNSON, Leah Gail 15AUG1952 – 30APR1970 Daughter of Theodore & Nellie Johnson LITTLEMAN, William  B 13MAR1950,  D. 17AUG2014   h/o Mary Bylilly WHITESKUNK, Jr., Philemon Born 26AUG1971   Died 28DEC2015