History of the Timmons New Home Cemetery, Peggs, Tahlequah District, 
Cherokee, Nation. Located 1 and 1/2 miles south of Peggs, Oklahoma, 
on County road # 4440= Lost City Road/Hulbert Road
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Submitted to the Cherokee archives page by: Lloyd Ray Timmons, 
LTimmons@intellex.com November 23,2003
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The 1st verified burial in the New Home Cemetery was Simmy Young on 
Sep 8, 1898. He was born on Jan 24, 1883. He was the son of Thomas Jacob 
Young Sr. & Sarah Elizabeth Musgrave. He was the brother of James Anderson 
Young, husband of Linnie Laura Timmons. He was buried in the yard of the 
home of Isaac Timmons & his full blood Cherokee wife Susan Fawling Smith. 
The house no longer exist. Isaac Timmons is the older brother of my great 
great grandpa, Daniel BG Timmons who lived on Clear Creek, one mile west 
as the crow flies, of the Isaac & Susan Timmons home and the original site 
of the New Home Cemetery. 

The 2nd verified burial in the New Home Cemetery was Millie Elizabeth Young 
on Nov 24, 1898. She was born on Sep 18, 1818 in Morgan County, Alabama. 
She was the daughter of John G. Young & Millie Ann Thompson. She married 
James Anderson Musgrave on Feb 25, 1838 and was the mother-in-law of Daniel 
BG Timmons.

The 3rd verified burial was Irene J. Wilkerson on Jan 16, 1900. She was born 
on Oct 10, 1879 in Peggs, Talequah District, Cherokee Nation. She was the 
daughter of John T. Wilkerson & Rebecca Oglesby. She was the sister of 
George W. Wilkerson, the husband of Ida R. Timmons, the granddaughter of 
Isaac Timmons.

The 4th verified burial was Irene John T. Wilkerson on Mar 23, 1900. He was 
born on Mar 22, 1842 in the Going Snake District, Cherokee Nation. He was 
the son of George Wilkerson & Susan Poorbear, the father of George W. & 
Irene J. and father-in-law of Ida R. Timmons.

The 5th verified burial was my great great grandpa, Daniel BG Timmons on 
Aug 30, 1900. He was born in 1827 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was 
the son of John Timmons & Temperance Stafford and the father of my great 
grandpa, Benjamin Curlee Timmons who was buried in the New Home Cemetery 
in 1925.

Isaac Timmons was buried there in the yard of his home in 1910. He was born 
in 1920 in Spartanburg, SC. The son of John Timmons & Temperance Stafford 
and the older brother of my great great grandpa, Daniel BG Timmons.
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Lloyd Ray Timmons Sr.
LTimmons@intellex.com