Turner Ranch Cemetery      Murray County, Oklahoma

Contributed by Dennis Muncrief  mudman@brightok.net
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Turner Ranch Cemetery

Sec. 35, T1N, R4E 

This cemetery is located on the old Turner Ranch
six miles east of Sulphur, Murray, OK.  This very
large ranch was home to many resident workers
who eventually had to create a cemetery for the
family members that died on the ranch.  There are
seven to ten unmarked graves just west of the main
ranch house.  It is marked by bois d' arc post at the
foot of each grave with climbing yellow roses.  The
only known person whose name is know is Melvina
Sparks who was burned to death in a house fire
shortly after mid-wiving the birth of twins.  The
twins also died shortly thereafter and were also
buried in this cemetery.  I have searched many
times for more info on this ranch but as it has sold
several time in the recent years, the current owners
know nothing of those interred here.  There are no
county records as the burials were before statehood
in 1907.

 

Melvina McAnally Sparks,  Died - 1895



Dennis Muncrief - January, 2002