Old Mill Creek Cemetery Murray County, Oklahoma Contributed by Dennis Muncrief mudman@brightok.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Old Mill Creek Cemetery Murray County, Oklahoma Contributed by Dennis Muncrief, August 7, 2001, (mudman@cableone.net) Old Mill Creek was on the Jack Penner Ranch located in Twp 2 S, R 4 E, Section 3 on the Eastern Murray line. The cemetery is located on Mill Creek originally known as Cherokee Creek. This land belonged to Cyrus Harris, the first Governor of the Chickasaw Nation. Cyrus Harris put a grist mill on the creek and the name changed. Several years ago, the remains of Governor Harris and those of his family were removed to the Drake-Nebo Cemetery some five miles west. The course of Mill Creek had changed to where it was beginning to wash the coffins of the Governor's family away. The town of Mill Creek moved some five miles east to it's present location after the Frisco R.R. came through in 1901. The names below are the only ones that remain in the Old Mill Creek Cemetery. Check the Drake-Nebo cemetery registry for the family of Cyrus Harris. The Penner Family are relatives of Governor Harris. The names below, were taken from the book "Mill Creek, The Life and Times" by Harold Garrison with his permission. (Consult the Drake-Nebo cemetery registry for the Harris family records.) James Dawson Heald b. May 5,1874 d. Oct 5, 1876 John E. Carter b. March 4,1861 d. Dec 7,1887 Eliza J. Guy** b. May 4,1841 d. Nov 26,1887 w/o C.H. Heald Andrew J. Harrison b. Aug 21,1870 d. Sept 9,1884 s/o J.P. & E.J. Harrison William A. Gibson b. June 14, 1892 d. Sept 18, 189_ s/o W.A. & S.L. Gibson L.C. Ellis b. Jan 23,1897 d. April 16,1897 d/o L.U. & N.B. Ellis **ELIZABETH JANE GUY HEALD ELIZA WAS BORN IN INDIAN TERRITORY & MARRIED CHARLES HOBART HEALD AT ELM GROVE, I.T. ON APRIL 10, 1861. SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF TEN CHILDREN. SHE DIED IN 1887 AT THE AGE OF 47 AND WAS BURIED IN THE OLD MILL CREEK CEMETERY. SHE WAS RE-INTERRED AT BOGGY DEPOT ON APRIL 11, 1992. BOGGY DEPOT WAS THE SITE OF HER HOME DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF HER MARRIAGE. ELIZA WAS THE FIRST WIFE OF C. H. HEALD, THE NAMESAKE OF HEALDTON, OK.