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Much of my cemetery work has been copied to Findagrave by others.  What was not copied will be moved there shortly.
 Cemeteries in Le Flore County, Oklahoma

Following list is derived from the Geographic Names Information System Query Results; information submitted by others and research about the cemeteries of LeFlore County, OK. 

NOTE: We must obtain/verify the information from other sources (birth certificates, bible records, death certificates, obits, etc.), family  and/or on site visits to the cemeteries. We do not want to others copyright to the books they have in print.

Thanks,
Marti

CEMETERIES OF LEFLORE COUNTY OKLAHOMA

 

GNIS Query Form Findagrave
Churches of LeFlore Co. Cemeteries in Le Flore County, Oklahoma 
  
Feature Name Oklahoma Cemeteries
Indian Grave Yards (About)  
Albert Folsom Cemetery approximately 3 miles south of Milton
Bennington School Cemetery see Old Bennington School Cemetery
Big Cedar Cemetery

on the South side of Hwy 62 just east of the intersection of hwy 259, across the road from the Big Cedar Free Will Baptist Church

Big Creek Cemetery  Hontubby
[could this be the Hontubby Cemetery below or are they separate cems?] 
Black Cemetery  
Bohannon Cemetery  
Bokoshe Cemetery see Old Bokoshe Cemetery 
aka Memorial Gardens Cemetery
Braidwood Area Plot  
Brazil Cemetery  west of Shady Point
also listed as Brazil Creek Cemetery
Brazil Cemetery (Black)  is it a different section of above Brazil Cemetery?
Bright Family Plot Fanshawe area
Brushill Cemetery Cameron 
Burns Cemetery Fanshawe area see notes on Burns Family
Burns Family Cemetery USGS has Burns Cemetery in Heavener area 
 - is this same one? prob not - one in Heavener area, other in Fanshawe area
Cache Cemetery see Old Cache Cemetery

Calhoun Cemetery

4 mile SW of Shady Point
was Sutter Cemetery until 1914 
aka Number 9 Cemetery
USGS has no cem for these names - did find town of Calhoun & historic post off w/o map link

Cariker Cemetery Bokoshe Area
USGS - nothing by this spelling
Cavanal Cemetery  
Cedar Grove Cemetery

just off Pleasant Valley Road out of Poteau, It is primarily an African American Cemetery, very few marked graves.11

Central Point Cemetery   Cameron Area
aka Old Liberty Hill
Cheyenne Cemetery  see Royal Oak Cemetery
Conser Cemetery near Heavener
Cowlington Cemetery near the town of Cowlington; between Short Mountain and Cowlington 
Dog Creek Cemetery  on page15 miles Southwest of Shady Point
Cemetery adjacent to Ellis Chapel Church - name?  
Edwards Store Cemetery  located at the historical site of Edwards Store, a stop on  the Butterfield Overland Mail Route
Ellis Chapel Cemetery  north of Wister
partial online
Fair View Cemetery

family oriented burial ground located on a partly shaded and dry hill about three miles southwest of Spiro, OK. Also, about the same distance northeast of the town of Panama, OK and little more than a mile due east of the intersection of Highways 271 and 31. Canvass of cemetery is printed in LeFlore Co. OK Cemeteries published by Poteau Valley Genealogical Society [PVGS].

Fairhill Cemetery
aka Knothole Cemetery

located 3 miles west of Cameron on the Shady Point - Cameron road. Many unmarked graves in this cemetery.  Canvass of cemetery is printed in LeFlore Co. OK Cemeteries published by Poteau Valley Genealogical Society [PVGS].
USGS has nothing for Fairhill or Knothole Cemetery; has a Fair Hill Church -  same area?

Fanshawe Cemetery Fanshawe area
Flemmichubbe Cemetery  take the second right hand road after crossing overpass on highway to Monroe from Poteau, travel south one mile to Rock Island Railroad, the cemetery is on the left. About 25 graves are here, no stones are complete.7
Folsom Cemetery at Pocola - located right off Highway 112 and a short distance behind the barn of Frank Fritz. Few stones, heavy vegetation and other erosive action.2   ?is the same as Albert Folsom Cemetery above?
Folsom-Morris Cemetery is this same as Folsom Cemetery above? cem is published in PVGS Cems 1979 v.3
could be same as Morris Cemetery below
Folsom (Albert) Cemetery
may be same as above referred to by Peck
 Family plot is on the abandoned old home site of Albert P. Folsom (1866 – 1936). Located approximately 3 miles South of Milton, Oklahoma in LeFlore County.
Folsom Crossing Grave Fanshawe area
French Cemetery Williams, Cameron Area
Freeman Cemetery See McCasson-Freeman Cemetery
Garden of Memories Cemetery  Spiro, OK
Glendale Cemetery  see Mountain View Cemetery
Goss Goestead Indian  Fanshawe area
Green Hill Cemetery

Cameron Area
Northeast of Cameron on Hwy 112 and is kept in excellent condition.  It contains over 1000 graves. Practically all the leading citizens of early Cameron are buried here.8  No USGS map

Greenleaf Cemetery  Rock Island
Hall Cemetery Cameron Area
Hall Cemetery (Old) Howe-Monroe Area
Heavener Memorial Park Heavener
Hickman Cemetery Heavener Area 
Hickman Indian Cemetery Fanshawe area 
Hicks Chapel Cemetery

east of Fanshawe, Oklahoma; very well-maintained cemetery located at the top of the mountain. There are at least 100 fieldstones marking graves in this cemetery [detailed location

Hill Cemetery Heavener Area
Hodgen Cemetery Hodgen, OK
Holson Valley Church Cemetery

Holson Valley Church Cemetery is an old cemetery located adjacent to the Holson Valley Church approximately 200 yards North of Holson Valley Road. The intersection of the gravel access road to the church and Holson Valley Road is located 5.4 miles East of the intersection of Hwy 271 and Holson Valley Road. The church has a sign at the entrance. submitted by Joe and Pat LaRue

Hontubby Cemetery Hontubby, Heavener Area
USGS ?
Howe Cemetery Howe-Monroe Area
Indian Cemetery pub PVGS cem, 1979 v.2 & v.3 & LeFlore Genealogist
Indian Cemetery located on Calvin Wiles Land, outside of Panama, Oklahoma
James Indian Cemetery aka Lone Prairie Cemetery
turn west off Highway 271 at Shady Point, turn North at Calhoun Baptist Church, continue about 2 miles, cemetery is located on the left side of the road.
Johnico Cemetery
aka Jonico Cemetery
Indian Cemetery
out from Panama going to Buck Creek
Kennedy Cemetery   in Kennedy Township and mostly McAlvains and people who married into the McAlvain family are buried there.  It is located just below the Luman's place near Wister. At various times identified as Kennedy and Kennady. Submitted by Ruthie Imes  rimes@hotmail.com  [10-97]
Knothole Cemetery
aka Fairhill Cemetery
 Cameron Area
Kully Chaha Cemetery

Hwy. 112 south from Hwy. 271, which you can access from Fort Smith, Ar. When you reach Cameron, turn left, (east) to the old Hwy. 112 and go south. There are a couple of "jogs" to this old two lane road but it eventually takes you through a very small town, Gilmore. Shortly after you go through Gilmore, there is a turn off to the left, (east) and I do not know the lane or street, as you will pass several. We knew where to turn because we pin pointed a blue grey house situated in the north-east corner of the lane we turned onto to the Hall Cemetery.

If you want an easier way, take Hwy. 112 south through Poteau. You will see a turn off to Monroe. From Monroe, (which turned out to be a Service Station,) you turn north toward Gilmore, which is the old Hwy. 112. You will pass Double Branch Baptist Church and Vaughn Cemetery on your right, (east side) and reach the area described above to Hall Cemetery. The area around the blue-grey house I mentioned before is probably the center of what was once Kully Chaha. I don't know if the foundations of any of the buildings of the old town exist now. Kully was east of Hill and west of Neff; directly south of Cameron and directly north of Monroe. Hope this helps some. Sorry I didn't see the earlier inquiry.

contributed 07-2001 by Lola <coolbreze@cybertrails.com>

Lavone Cemetery  
Leard Cemetery  
LeFlore Cemetery LeFlore
Liberty Church Grave see Old Liberty Church Grave
Liberty Hill Cemetery   Fanshawe area
Liberty Hill Cemetery Cameron area
see Central Point Cemetery
Lone Prairie Cemetery Calhoun area
see James Cemetery
Long Prairie Cemetery west of Shady Point 
?? could this be the Lone Prairie Cemetery above with one or other miss named ?? 
Loving Cemetery east of Heavener near AR line
Lower Cemetery  Heavener Area
USGS has nothing
Ludlow Cemetery

Turn toward Octavia and continue. The Cemetery is on the left side of the road. It is clearly visible and marked.

Luton Cemetery USGS has nothing 
Macedonia Cemetery southeast of Pocola   
Maxey Cemetery Wister Area
Maxey Hill Cemetery Poteau, OK
no USGS map -has historical place w/o link
McCasson-Freeman Cemetery Howe, OK; pub in PVGS cems, 1979 v. 3
USGS has nothing McCasson or Freeman - need location
McClure Cemetery south of Heavener near AR line
McCurtain Cemetery  between Wister & Heavener
McIntosh Cemetery  southeast of Talihina
Memorial Gardens Cemetery see Old Bokoshe Cemetery 
 
Memorial Park Cemetery see Heavener Memorial Park Cemetery
Milton Cemetery Bokoshe Area
Milton, Milton Twp, Milton (historical)
Monks Cemetery about 6 miles southwest of Shady Point in the Calhoun
area on Raymond Kirgland's land
Monroe Cemetery Howe-Monroe Area
near Monroe, about 1/2 mi south of Hwy 83
USGS has no map
Morris Cemetery

one mile east of Howe, located on Morris Creek
USGS has Morris Creek only

Mount Pleasant Cemetery Heavener Area
USGS has Mount Pleasant Church, no cem
Mountain Home Cemetery south and west of Poteau 
Mountain View Cemetery

Glendale, Wister Area
located on a ridge just east of Wister Lake at Glendale, behind Mt. View Baptist Church.  [additional - located southeast of the southern tip of the Lake Wister Dam.] - another directions: approx 5 miles out of Wister going toward Howe, OK   USGS has no map

Muse Cemetery Muse - small community near the Arkansas line and Mena, Arkansas
Myers Cemetery near Talihina
Naylor Cemetery  southwest of Heavener
is there 2 named Naylor?? 
New Home Cemetery

associated with New Home Church and located in New Home, LeFlore Co. OK on Highway 63 [Hwy 63 runs from Talihina over to the state line where it connects to Hwy 8 in Arkansas].  Carla  Jul 2000

USGS has New Home Church, New Home (historical)

New Hope Cemetery Spiro area
aka Spiro Cemetery
Spiro has 3 cems - Skullyville, New Hope, Spiro City
Nubbin Ridge Cemetery Bokoshe Area
Number 9 Cemetery aka Calhoun Cemetery
aka Sutter Cemetery
Oakdale Cemetery Heavener Area
Oakland Cemetery   Poteau Area
Octavia Cemetery Octavia Area
Old Bennington School about 2 miles west of Shady Point under a cedar tree and beside the Old Bennington School site. The school was built in the early 1890s and closed July 7, 1950 when it consolidated with Panama School
Old Bokoshe Memorial Gardens see Bokoshe - is it the same?
USGS has Bokoshe Cemetery, Bokoshe town, Church, twp and historical - no old bokoshe
Old Cache Cemetery 5 miles East of Keota on Hiway 9, then turn South and go approximately 1 mile and there will be a sign on the right side of the road that says Cache Church. The cemetery is located in front of the church. 
Online at http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/onlinecem/cache1.html
is it the same one? one online has no directions
USGS list Cache (historical) no map
Old Liberty Church Grave  
Old Liberty Hill Cemetery Cameron Area 
see Central Point Cemetery
USGS has Liberty Hill Church
Old Panther Cemetery USGS - no Panther anything in LeFlore
Page Cemetery    Pocola Area
Page Cemetery   Page Area
Perry Cemetery south of Heavener
aka Perry Family Cemetery and 
Perry Indian Cemetery
Pinnell Cemetery Fanshawe Area
Poker Bend Cemetery see Royal Oak Cemetery
Poteau Cemetery Poteau
Powell Cemetery northeast of Bokoshe
Prairie Grove Cemetery Talihina -has Prairie Prairie Grove Church - is cem there?
Reichert Cemetery
Roselawn Cme Skullyville, OK
Royal Oak Cemetery Panama area 4 mile east of Panama in the community of Poker Bend.
aka Cheyenne Cemetery
aka Poker Bend Cemetery
Royal Oak Church is beside the cemetery
east of Panama ?
Shady Grove Cemetery
Shady Point Cemetery  Shady Point, historical, township
Short Mountain Cemetery northeast of Cowlington
Skullyville Cemetery Skullyville, OK
Slatonville Cemetery has an Oklahoma side and an Arkansas side
USGS has nothing in AR or OK
Spiro City Cemetery Spiro has 3 cems - Skullyville, New Hope, Spiro City
Springhill Cemetery

Turn toward Octavia and travel toward Honobia. The Cemetery is on the right hand side of the road by the Spring Hill Indian Presbyterian Church. It is marked and visible from the road. Between Ludlow and Honobia.

Stapp Cemetery   aka Zoe Cemetery
Summerfield Cemetery  

historic cemetery is the burying ground of many noted pioneers and prominent Choctaws.5

Sutter Cemetery aka Calhoun Cemetery
aka Number 9 Cemetery
USGS shows Sutter (historical)
Swallow Rock Cemetery Fort Coffee was built at what was called Swallow Rock; Fort Coffee & historical
Sweeney Holson Family Cemetery Fanshawe area
USGS no Sweeney
Talihina Cemetery  Talihina Area
Tarby Prairie Cemetery need map  !!!!!! recheck before remove linking
//okgenweb.net/~okleflor/cemetery/tarby.htm  has two Wilson burials   
need location / directions
Terrell Family  Terrell Lake area?
Thessalonians Cemetery one burial  //okgenweb.net/~okleflor/cemetery/thessalonians.htm
Trahern Station Trahern's Station was the residence of James N. Trahern.
The Trahern burial plot at what was once known as Trahern's Station is thought to have once been about 20 acres according to historical research.
Trahern burial plot near Panama, OK
USGS none
Turkey Creek Abandoned Cemetery Fanshawe area
Turkey Creek - is this right area north and east of Red Oak?
Unidentified Choctaw Indian  Fanshawe area
Vaughn Cemetery

Cameron Area  -
located one mile south of Gilmore by the Double Springs Missionary Baptist Church.  It has been the burying ground for the community for over one hundred years.  Lots are all marked with stones and cement blocks.6

Wadesville Cemetery  
Wall Cemetery
Wards Cemetery east of Spiro, between Spiro and Pocola 
Watts Cemetery  
Welch Family Cemetery  
Whitesboro Cemetery north of Wister, Oklahoma
Talihina area?
 
Winlock Family Cemetery  
Wister City Cemetery Wister Area
Witteville Cemetery
Witteville, OK
Woods Cemetery Woods Cemetery is located just west of Whitesboro on the highway just across from the school, said to be easy to find
USGS has Woods Creek only
Zoe Cemetery see Stapp Cemetery
   GNIS Query Form -- Mapping Information Home Page
 
 
Cemetery adjacent to Ellis Chapel Church - fairly good-sized cemetery adjacent to the Ellis Chapel Church on the outskirts of Wister.  Going west on Hwy 270 toward Wilburton, turn north just at the edge of Wister following signs.  Headstones date from the mid-to late-1850's.  The cemetery is currently being enlarged on its northern and western boundaries.  Many of my family are buried there along with numerous other families. John C. Baldwin, Tampa, FL MerfB@aol.com [10-97]


Hall Cemetery (Old) - located on road to Slatonville, leave Poteau on Hwy 112 East, travel Cameron road to Reed Adams Corner, turn east for two miles.1

Indian Grave Yards - Many cemeteries in LeFlore County are known as Indian Grave Yards.  Hundreds scattered all over LeFlore County are now abandoned and they are grown up in trees, briars, weeds and bushes.  Many have been plowed under and the land is in cultivation or in pasture.

An early practice of the Indian was to bury underneath the floor of the home.  After death, burial took place as soon as a coffin could be made and the grave prepared, usually on the same day of death. Many Indian grave yards are to be found near or in the yard of the Indian home.  This signifies a mark of loving respect to their memory, and one by one as the living pass they will be interned in this plot.  The Ward Cemetery near New Hope, the Conser Cemetery, the Fulson Cemetery near Howe and the Page Cemetery at Page are all examples of family cemeteries. Usually well kept and substantially enclosed with iron fences and the graves marked with stones. 10



Sources:
1Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 126.
2Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 128.
3Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 129-130.
4Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 130.
5Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 131.
6Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 131-132.
7Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 133.
8Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 133.
9Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 134.
10Henry L. Peck, The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County, A History of An Oklahoma County, (Muskogee, OK: Hoffman Printing Co.) 1963 reprint 1967, p. 134-135.

11Doug Barkley
 
 

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