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    1. Re: [CHOCTAW] Wadesville and Bohannon Cemeteries
    2. Doug Barkley
    3. This Cemetery is probably in the Volume 8, Talihina Area, Cemetery book, available from Poteau Valley Genealogical Society, P. o. Box 1031, Poteau, OK 74953 For. $14 shipping and handling included. For more books see LeFlore County genweb web site. Doug Jamialane@aol.com wrote: > This is excerpted from "The Proud History of LeFlore County" by Henry L. > Peck, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1996: > page 129: > Wadesville and Bohannon Cemeteries > The writer in company with his wife visited this old cemetery on August 15, > 1962. From Talihina go Highway 63 east towards Muse, cross Frazier Creek, > turn due south one half mile to Geo. Morgans on the old site of Wadesville, > go in his pasture at the gate, drive west for seven minutes, and enter > pasture of Harold Wright one mile. This is one of the most isolated and most > intersting of all the cemeteries that the writer has explored, and the least > visited by historians, although it is not hard to reach. It is so grown up > with seemingly every kind of bush, briar, tree or weed that it takes one with > a lot of courage to begin explorations. ................ > The cemetery contains probably 250 graves, and is well fenced but no > semblance of caretaking except in certain sections. It is located on a high > south bank of Frazier Creek. > In the extreme northeast corner are the oldest graves. The writer first saw > the grave of Gov. (Chief) Alfred Wade with grave stone epitaph well written: > "Died March 13th, 1878, age 67 years," and to his left, "In Memory of Mrs. L. > T. Wade, wife of Ex-Governor Wade, born Oct., 1820; Died April, 1876, age > 56." A few of the other older stones all in this corner read as follows: > Nancy G., Widow of Jas. Dukes, died Nov. 23, 1875, age 63; Eli P. Wade, > 1857-1869; Nancy Wade, 1843-1860; Wade Alfred Daney, 1862-1876; Elizabeth > Frazier, a member of the family from whom Frazier Creek was named, 1877-1883; > Angeline L., Wife of G. W. Dukes, Chief, 1900-1902, 1849-1887; Mary R. Daney, > 1890-1926; Lavina, Daughter of Alfred Wade, 1837-1909; Davis Anderson, died > 1900, age 68 years; Thomas Frazier, 1842-1896. > > Does anyone know of a complete listing of this cemetery? I am interested in > the Bohannon/Bohanan's that might be buried there. > The above excerpt is all that was named. > > Thanks > Jami > > ==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== > Looking for your Native American Ancestors in > Pushmataha County, Oklahoma? > Have a look -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpushma/

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