Indian Pioneer Papers - Index
Cemeteries - Miscellaneous
Date: July 23, 1937
Burial ground: Boiling Springs
Founded: unable to find out
Present owner: no one lives close to this burial place
Number of graves: can not count them all; marked graves: none
Condition: lots of grown timber and grass
Field Worker: Bradley BOLINGER
We went to Boiling Springs.
This place is about eight miles northwest of Wilburton. This burial place is
in the top of a good sized mountain. There are no head markers. Mr. MICKLE
tells me that they did not put any head markers to the Indian graves those
days. The only thing they did was to build a small log or native rock house
over these graves. You cannot find these graves now unless some of the ruins
of the little buildings are left.
You can count the noticeable
ones but you are not able to tell if the number you count is all the graves or
not. There is still an Indian church house near this burial place and the
Indians who are left in this section of the county still hold their church
services there.
Transcribed by Gay Wall walltribe@earthlink.net
November 1999.