Old Indian Cemetery      Murray County, Oklahoma

Contributed by Dennis Muncrief  mudman@brightok.net
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The Old Indian Cemetery

This old cemetery was a local cemetery used by the
Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians that live in the area on Guy
Sandy Creek south and west of Sulphur.   The exact location
is not know now as the area has been taken by the
Department of the Interior and the Arbuckle Lake area.  The
cemetery was located in Section 18, T1S, R3E.  The
cemetery was moved during the construction of the lake.  

I have visited with several people who had relatives buried in
this tiny cemetery.  It was related that the interred were moved
to Greenhill cemetery in Davis, Sandy Baptist Church
cemetery, or Oaklawn Cemetery in Sulphur.  The choice of
the cemetery was left to the family of the interred.  The move
occurred during the building of the lake between 1964-66.

It should be noted that the interred who did have monuments
will be listed in the new respective cemeteries registry they
were moved to, but there will be no way of knowing who they
were.

No one that I visited with knew of any other name for the
cemetery other than that listed above.  Several efforts have
been made to find records of this cemetery from the National
Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the
Bureau of Reclamation.  None of these agencies seem to have
any record that a cemetery was ever there or that one was
moved during the construction of the lake.

Those who were known to be buried there but listed nowhere
else were:

Cyrus Gilbert

Lucy Alexander Gilbert



Dennis Muncrief, 2001