Tillman County, OK - Amyx Cemetery --------------------------------- Copyright © 2000 by Carolyn Tharp patharp@ou.edu This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. --------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Source: From "Now and Then" by Carolyn Maxwell, The Frederick Press, March 24, 1977 (reprinted in The History of Tillman County©, Volume II, published 1978): ------------------------------------------------------------------ Amyx Cemetery A small country cemetery on the Philip Amyx homestead (more recently known as the Tom Amyx place) has never been named, but the only appropriate one, to my way of thinking, is the Amyx Cemetery since the majority of people buried there are children of the family. It is located eleven miles east, five miles south, 1-3/4 miles east, and 1/4 mile south from Frederick. Philip and Mary Catherine Amyx have five children buried there with three stones: Eva C. Amyx, November 26, 1893 - September 8, 1908; Theodore Amyx, 1908 - 1909; and Gladys Marie, 1912 - 1913; and Infants of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Amyx, 1914 and 1916. Kate Lasley and Lydia Simpson, daughters of Philip Amyx' uncle, Henry B. Amyx, recall 15-year-old Eva's death from typhoid fever soon after the families arrived in Oklahoma. "She died at 4 o'clock one morning," Mrs. Simpson says. "Someone went to Frederick for a coffin at daybreak, brought it back that same day, and Eva was buried that night. There were so many sick with the fever then, and it was feared more would catch it if she wasn't buried as soon as possible." In addition to these five children, there is a stone for Arlie Amyx, 1904 - 1910. He was the son of Peter and Myrtle Amyx, brother and sister-in-law of Philip. Buried in graves without markers are Julia and Jim Amyx' infant son, Eldon, who died in 1928; Banks and Hannah Donahoo's baby; and John Perry's baby. Julia Amyx, who first told me about the cemetery, says it is possible there are others buried there whom she doesn't remember. In 1976, members of the family gave donations, and Dick Dunham, whose wife Oleta is an Amyx, erected a sturdy fence around the plot. Granite pieces have been taken there, and it is supposed they'll be laid outside the fence making a walkway around the small family graveyard.