Gardner Cemetery - Bryan County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Angie Long 7 Jun 2003 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Angie Long went to this cemetery and sent this report. The people that own the property are very nice and will gladly show you the cemetery. Call first to set up a time, they work outside of the home. Their names are Terry and Charlotte Morgan. (Note: contact me, okarchives@comcast.net, for Mr Morgan's phone number) Mr. Morgan would not be opposed to a group coming in to work on the cemetery and do some clean up. He said that when he first bought the property from his Uncle he had contacted a local paper to see if someone might be interested in cleaning it up but found no one interested. He is not "into genealogy" and did not know of the Bryan County Genealogy Society. He also did not know that the Cemetery had a name. I had printed out the email that you sent to me with the names and information that you had. I gave it to him, he seemed happy to have it. I have some new better directions to pass on to you to find the cemetery. Oklahoma is naming all streets these days to make it easier for emergency services to find people so I have street names now to pass on and the streets are marked with signs. I know this will help the next person that wants to go there. Directions are: From Durant go 5 miles West on US 70. Turn North on Kiersey-Silo Rd. (there is a storm shelter business on the corner. Follow this road for 4 miles. Turn East on Quail Creek Rd. and go 6/10 of a mile and turn right to go to Mr. Morgans home. (His home has a green metal roof at this time) He will take you across his field to a gate and then you go approx 1/2 mile to a certain thicket of trees (there are several thickets of trees on this property) We had to cut our way into the thicket of trees to get to the headstones, many were broken and laying over and hard to get to because of all the thorns. But I am really glad that I was able to find my gr-gr grandmother and gr-grandfather's graves. But it was very sad to see the cemetery in this shape. Mr Morgan said that he didn't think anyone had been there besides me and one other person in aprrox 20 years since he helped his uncle clean up the cemetery when he was a young boy for the genealogy society to come in and canvass it. He said he was young and didn't realize until my visit that they had come and this happened. I would be glad to go with a group to work on this cemetery if you should hear of someone putting something together. Because it is so enclosed the way it is, Mr. Morgans livestock do not even go in there. I have some pictures also if you are interested in them. Angie Jenkins Long Information from Bryan County Cemeteries, Vol I Name Birth - Death Notes -, - No date - No date Canvass rock with C W on it Gardner, - No date - No date Canvass w/o G G Gardner Gardner, G G 16 Nov 1848 - 04 Sep 1902 Canvass Gardner, J J LD 22 Jul 1813 - 31 Jul 1890 Canvass Gardner, Margaret No date - 30 Dec 1891 Canvass 66Yrs, 11mo, 15 da (w/o Rev J J Gardner) Marcum, James 18 Oct 1859 - 24 Jan 1892 Canvass Marcum, James W T 06 Mar 1889 - 02 May 1891 Canvass (s/o J and Mary U Marcum) Marcum, Mahala 05 Apr 1827 - 09 Feb 1899 Canvass Marcum, Rachel A 27 Jan 1850 - 26 May 1887 Canvass (w/o B Marcum) O'Neal, Cassandra Francis 14 Feb 1831 - 26 Nov 1903 Canvass O'Neal, Hiram 18 Jan 1828 - 05 Sep 1901 Canvass Scroggin, Susan Gardner No date - c 1898 Submitter (ggrandmother of Letha Dills Young) Dills Stewart, Nancy E 12 Mar 1875 - 31 May 1876 Canvass