Small Cemeteries & Burials - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Mary Louise Kordis Morgan    mlmorgan@telepath.com
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This will record some of the small burials that have been noted in the county.
Hobbs Ranch is enclosed by private property now and almost impossible to access.
When I was there we could only find two stones there. This is from the
Kingfisher times and free press several years ago. Mrs E. S. Hobbs said that
there were at least a dozen stones there in her life time and she had lived
there for 65 yrs.  This is #12 on the map. Section 19 Township 18, Range 7
               
DIXON, Jno.           Co. A. 72nd  U. S. C. Inf.
TALBORT, Damagrios    Mar. 29, 1900   
     age 65 yrs 5 mo. & 29 days  m. to W. T.


I have reports that there was a cemetery called Ridgeon, which was on a farm
owned by a man of that name.  One called Hedrick but found no material to suport
this claim to a name for one.

Wilson cemetery was a private burial ground for a family of that name from most
reports. It was located on the Garald Fullers farm. Reports of all the way from 3
or 4 graves to 20 some. 

A lady traveler who died      around 1899 or 1890
Wilson, Levi                  about 1900

A report of three other Wilson brothers being burried there.
  
There was a report of one of the cemeteries being called Haymaker.  

East of Dover there is noted the burial in the corner of a farm of 3 people.  At
one time the colored had to be buried in their own cemeteries and a Dr. Bailey
[who was white] had married a colored lady and they had a child, they both died
about the same time and were buried on the farm.  Later when Dr. Bailey died he
was burried with them.  For a long time a relative sent flowers from Kansas to
decorate the graves of them.  I saw a single marker of some sort in a pasture west
of Loyal.  Was not acessable to me.  Also had a report of 3 graves in a corner of a
field in the same location but was not able to find them or find any one with a exact
location.  On the Jim Vance farm there was an indian burial ground containing 9
graves reported by Robert O. Murphy in the Kingfisher Times.

In the Banner area Dr. Long and a neighbor each deeded one acre for the Banner
Cemetery. Franklin Walker was the first to die in this location and was buried on
his farm and later moved to the Banner Cemetery.

Jack King and John Henry Scorborough each gave 1 acre for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.
There are lots of unrecorded single graves in our county on the different farms.
On the House & Nelson map they marked lots of them they have no names attached to
them they were just told about by word of mouth, some lived there and some were
just passing by.