Worcester Mission Cemetery

Cherokee Co. OK Archives 
Copyright c 2003 by. Terrill White
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Worcester Mission Cemetery
Owned and maintained by the Oklahoma Historical Society

Location:  Sec. 22, R22E, T16N, Cherokee County
Directly across from the Parkhill Cemetery, Parkhill, Cherokee County, OK

1.  	Elias Boudinot - Kilakeena "Buck" Watie - 1802-1839
	
	A son of Oo-watie and Susana Reece Watie.  Educated at Moravian Mission, 
	Spring Place Georgia, and at Cornwall Mission, Connecticut.  He became 
known 
	as "Elias Boudinot," this name adopted from that of his friend, a noted 
leader in 
	New Jersey.  He made his home at New Echota, the Cherokee Capitol in 
Georgia, 
	where he served as Clerk of the Cherokee National Council (1825 to 1828); 
and 
	was editor of the Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper and translator of Biblical 
works in 
	association with the Rev. Samuel A. Worcester.

	Elias Boudinot, his brother Stand Watie, their relatives the Ridges, and 
other 
	tribesmen signed the treaty of 1835 at New Echota, providing for the 
removal of 
	all the Cherokees to the Indian Territory.  Here in the west, Boudinot 
again served 
	with Rev. Worcester in the work of the Park Hill Mission Press, near which 
he 
	was assassinated, June 22, 1839, by enemy tribesmen, ostensibly for having 
	signed the New Echota Treaty.  His burial was near the spot where he fell, 
his 
	grave covered by a large slab of stone with no inscription.

	One who knew him well spoke of Elias Boudinot as a Cherokee of honor, an 
	earnest Christian, a man of exceptional ability and fine intellect whose 
life was 
	devoted to the vision of advancement and well being for all the people of 
the 
	Cherokee Nation.
Erected by Oklahoma Historical Society 1964

2.	Dora Platt 1863   1864

3.  	John Orr    died Oct. 15, 1867

4.	Wm. Henry  died Oct. 9, 1867
	Children of W. S. & A. E. W
	Robertson.  born April 29, 1866

5.  	Mrs. A. E. W. Robertson  1826  1905
	Missionary to the Creek Indians,
	Tullahassee Mission, I. T., 1850-1905 

6.  	Rev. Wm. S. Robertson  1820  1881
	Missionary to the Creek Indians,
	Tullahassee Mission, I. T., 1849-1881
7.	Erminia Nash, second wife of Rev.
	S. A. W.      died May 1872 Aged 70

8.  	Rev. S. A. Worcester, D. D.
	Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. among
	the Cherokees.  To his work they owe
	their Bible and Hymn Book.	
	Died April, 1859.  Aged 61

9. 	Ann Orr, first wife of Rev. S. A. W. 
	Died May, 1840  Aged 40.  Daughter 
	of a Revolutionary Soldier.

10.	Mother and Infant; Sarah,
	wife of Dr. D. D. Hitchcock, daughter of
	Rev. S. A. Worcester, 1828   1857
	"There, there will be no more 
	 struggling with sin."

11. 	Caleb Covel, from Boston, Mass.
	died Sept. 22, 1850  Aged 33 years

12.	E. N. W.  ) (These two graves appear
13. 	R. B. B.   )   to be facing south.)

14.  	Charles M. Delano  1812   1861

15. 	J. M. Helton   1857   1887

16. 	Lydia Lowrey Hoyt   1803   1862
	Born on Tennessee River 1803 and
	died near Park Hill Mission in
	Cherokee Nation, July 10, 1862.
	Daughter of Major George Lowrey
	and wife of Lucy Benge Lowrey, who
	was a half sister of Sequoyah.

	Lydia was educated at Brainerd
	Mission, Tennessee, where she
	joined the Presbyterian Church
	on Jan. 31, 1819.  Wrote first
	hymn in Cherokee language.
	Married Milo Hoyt and from this
	union ten children were born.
	Many of their descendents have
	made major contributions to the
	development of eastern Oklahoma.
	The Major George Lowrey Family
	Association.  1966

17.  	Rev. Hamilton Balentine
	Missionary 28 yrs. among the
	Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws
	and Cherokees.  Born in	
	Pennsylvania  1817.  Died near
	Tahlequah Feb'y. 21, 1876.	
	"They that shall be wise shall
	shine as the brightness of the 
	firmament, and they that turn 
	many to righteousness as the 
	stars for ever and ever."

18.	G. S. Boynton  died Mar. 26, 
	1856  Aged 27 Yrs.  11 Mos. 1 Da.