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/