Tillman County, OK -Eschiti Methodist Church Cemetery http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/tillman/cemeteries/eschiti.txt --------------------------------- Copyright © 2000 by Carolyn Tharp E-mail 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, November 7, 1974, (reprinted in The History of Tillman County©, Volume II, published 1978) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eschiti Methodist Church Cemetery Eschiti Cemetery Northeast of Grandfield three cemeteries can be found within a half mile of each other. The first, Grandfield's city cemetery, stands on fifty acres that were part of the original Eschiti townsite (north half of Section 3, T 4 S, R 14 W.) A quarter of a mile directly east (across the runway of an old airport, part of a field, and a dry creekbed) is an overgrown plot which used to be the churchyard of the Methodist Church in Eschiti. Only three stones, almost lost in the tumbleweeds, remain in this graveyard. Then, a quarter of a mile further east is the old Eschiti cemetery, located on a hill which gives a fine view of the countryside. A dozen stones, most fallen now, can be found there. Inscribed on the three stones in the church graveyard is this information: CLARK, J. G., January 20, 1860 - June 14, 1909 FLEMING, M. L. S., daughter of R. E. and M. J. Fleming, November 30, 1909 - June 27, 1911 TYLER, Martha A., August 15, 1884 - October 15, 1909 On the stones in the Eschiti cemetery is this information: BAKER, Mary Jane, October 8, 1852 - March 21, 1913 BARTON, Estella, daughter of M. R. and S. E. Barton, December 10, 1911 - December 7, 1912 BODLE, Dilemma M., August 12, 1877 - February 7, 1912 CRABTREE, Lula A., wife of T. J., December 17, 1886 - February 11, 1911 FLEMING, Mattie J., May 30, 1873 - September 8, 1911 FLOYD, Doshier, March 8, 1904 - October 23, 1911 LAX, Hattie, daughter of A. A. and M. E., November 27, 1892 - February 18, 1910 LAX, Elvira, daughter of A. A. and M. E., April 3, 1906 - March 1, 1910 MARTIN, Nellie Floyd, January 14, 1871 - March 30, 1911 WEAVER, James V., son of L. and Bessie Weaver, September 13, 1911 - May 5, 1913 WEBB, James H., son of L. H. and E. R. Webb, natives of Alabama, August 14, 1910 - December 4, 1910 WITT, Ora, daughter of J. G. and Dora Witt, September 6, 1901 - March 24, 1909 Like all the other country cemeteries, it appears there are many more graves than are marked. We found remnants of wire fences, native stones arranged in rectangles, bricks marking four corners --- all without tombstones. Also, many large depressions indicate removals to other cemeteries.