This is a test of the Rootsweb lists I am on. It is also some information for the list administrator if they feel the list is not running as expected. And finally it is an attempt to get something posted to the list so Rootsweb does not turn the list off. The list admin should probably go to this page: http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ and try to set up a new mailman login, if not already done. If you do that you will probably get to this page eventually: https://mailinglists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/lists/setupmail Then you might want to sign up for this list: https://mailinglists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/search/Listowners But be warned, you will receive postings from that list almost every day.  May 8 a day at times. Another option that I do not encourage is to turn the list over to me - at least temporarily.  Again, I do not want that done if you are willing to keep the list. Mike Flannigan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cwboyd1104 Surnames: White Classification: death Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/40/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have had no luck at all in finding the exact death date of my Grandfather, Charlie C. White, I know they lived in southern Oklahoma, but I don't know the county or town. If anyone has any information concerning this, I would appreciate hearing from you. I am also trying to connect Walter Lee White, born: about 1886..We lived near him and his family and my father, Wilton D. White, said Walter was his Uncle but I can't find him in any census. My name is Carolyn White Boyd, my email is cwboyd@juno.com, and my website is carolynboyd1.com I Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a link from the Friends of Burial Hill in Plymouth Mass., that I thought might interest you all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcwh7T7koY&feature=youtu.be https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Burial-Hill/479832968796058

Thank you very much, Fred. I've got some people right now trying to get me to help them with one of our Afri-Amer graveyards to get it named as an historic cemetery. They're not even sure who is buried where. Take care, and have a Merry Christmas and a blessed new year! Nelda ---- Dittmar@lists2.rootsweb.com wrote: > > This is a link from the Friends of Burial Hill in Plymouth Mass., that I thought might interest you all. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcwh7T7koY&feature=youtu.be > > > https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Burial-Hill/479832968796058 > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Nelda

Thank you! I appreciate the information. Sincerely, Donna Flint On Friday, October 3, 2014 2:00 AM, "ok-cemetery-preservation-request@rootsweb.com" <ok-cemetery-preservation-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Oklahoma Saving Graves (Nathan Zipfel) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:32:12 -0400 From: "Nathan Zipfel" <nzipfel@gmail.com> Subject: [OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION] Oklahoma Saving Graves To: <OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <0b0201cfde6f$2fb17990$8f146cb0$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi all, I'm the new list admin for this list. I wanted to point out our website Saving Graves - Cemetery Preservation Alliance. We have a website for Oklahoma http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ok/state1/ If you know of an endangered cemetery in Arkansas please consider submitting an Endangered Cemetery Report http://www.savinggraves.net/index.php/submit-and-endangered-cemetery-report Nathan Nathan Zipfel Saving Graves - Cemetery Preservation Alliance http://www.savinggraves.net/ Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saving-Graves/279806828729086 Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/savegraves @savegraves ------------------------------ To contact the OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION list administrator, send an email to OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION mailing list, send an email to OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2 ******************************************************

Hi all, I'm the new list admin for this list. I wanted to point out our website Saving Graves - Cemetery Preservation Alliance. We have a website for Oklahoma http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ok/state1/ If you know of an endangered cemetery in Arkansas please consider submitting an Endangered Cemetery Report http://www.savinggraves.net/index.php/submit-and-endangered-cemetery-report Nathan Nathan Zipfel Saving Graves - Cemetery Preservation Alliance http://www.savinggraves.net/ Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saving-Graves/279806828729086 Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/savegraves @savegraves

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CRYSTALKC78 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/11.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Marilyn, I'm not sure if you have found out if these two are in Egypt Cemetery or not but I live near it and would be more than happy to take a look for you. Crystal Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DorothySwanson369 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/38.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so very much. Dorothy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gnphllps Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/38.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: He has a memorial on findagrave. I requested a photo and it was fulfilled. There's also an obit, so double good. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42526467 Gene Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Thanks, Fred. Good info. ---- "Dittmar wrote: > Here is a cemetery that is getting a make over. It's located at Harrah-Newalla Rd / 192 Ave SE and E Franklin Rd.. Norman Oklahoma Here are a couple links: > > https://sites.google.com/site/knolescemeteryclevelandco/ > > http://knolescemeteryclevelandco.blogspot.com/ > > Google: Knoles Cemetery for more links and stories. > > Nice work, Lisa > > > Fred > > > Frederick M. Dittmar > Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service > PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 > > Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://www.okgensoc.org/ > Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net > > List Administrator for 99 mail lists. > 32 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 12 Miscellaneous / > 8 Canadian & 12 Province & Territories Ghost Towns lists. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Nelda B.

Here is a cemetery that is getting a make over. It's located at Harrah-Newalla Rd / 192 Ave SE and E Franklin Rd.. Norman Oklahoma Here are a couple links: https://sites.google.com/site/knolescemeteryclevelandco/ http://knolescemeteryclevelandco.blogspot.com/ Google: Knoles Cemetery for more links and stories. Nice work, Lisa Fred Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://www.okgensoc.org/ Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net List Administrator for 99 mail lists. 32 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 12 Miscellaneous / 8 Canadian & 12 Province & Territories Ghost Towns lists.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: IanSwart Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/39.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Check out this site www.swartrestoration.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Donnie_Poe Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/37.1.2.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Just curious if there is an update to this. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: kaletatorti Surnames: Cox Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/37.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I also have family at this place, Lonnie Cox, I went there in the 1970's, crawled through the trees, hung in the barbed wire fence but found just a few tombstones! I will send the too my friend who works for the Choctow chief. Kaleta Torti Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lizro55 Surnames: Pate Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/37.1.2.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have family also buried in Cox's Chapel North of Durant.My maternal grandparents, maternal great-grandparents, aunts and uncles and great uncles and aunts as well. The famiy name is Pate. My mother passed away in 1994 and it had been several years before that since we visited the site. Before that my uncle Clarence Covey used to keep it up when he lived down the road, but he moved to California in the 70's and I don't know anyone that did much with it after that. I know that family pitched together and paid for a chain link fence to surround their lots to protect it from the cows. But the weeks were so grown up and covered so much that it was hard to eve see the gravesites. There were also snakes and mentioned before, ticks and chiggers abound. I would say that it would take an insecticide and herbicide being sprayed and given a chance to act before much could be done. The road looks like a private road but I understand that the Chapel area has to be left accessible. You t! hink you are driving into someones back yard when you enter. I don't know if they actually own that property or not, but they are required to fence it off from their livestock thus the animals have free rein. It would take someone organizing those families that are concerned and coming up with a financing plan to salvage all the graves that have been destroyed. Contact me and I might be interested. I will probably try and go out there this fall when the snakes and ticks hibernate. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gfrance_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/11.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much for your reply. Unfortunately, I still have not found out where my Great Grandfather, George McKinzie is buried as well as his brother, John H. McKinzie. I know that their parents are: James Henry McKinzie & Susan unknown. We don't know what happened to her. The last child was born in 1866 (Oscar) and we wonder if she died in childbirth. Susan was on the 1960 Washington County, Arkansas with husband, James Henry McKinzie and family. They had 12 children, including George & John. On the 1870 Washington Co., Ark, Susan is missing and he is married to the 2nd wife. We know James Henry McKinzie 2nd married Eliza Townsend. They had one child, Alice McKinzie. James Henry mcKinzie 3rd married Susannah (Wolfe) Givens 10/1/1871 in Cooke Co TX. This Susannah was previously married to Isaac Givens. If she is the same as the first wife, we don't know about it. They are on the 1880 Montague Co TX Census. James Henry McKinzie died in 1882 and is buried in the Hardy Cemetery in Texas. On the 1900 Chickasaw Indian Nation Census - list John H. McKinzie living with his brother, William McKinzie. John H. was the 2nd husband of my great grandmother, Nancy Jane Moseley-after George died. Nancy & John H. were separated and divorced. Nancy and children are living in another household in this same census. I will peruse the Pontotoc Co., OK cemeteries. Thanks for your help. Marilyn Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Winnie_Yandell Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/11.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Marilyn, I don't know if you've found your McKinzie brothers' graves since your post; I've checked ancestry.com and on the Aldrich-Hix Family Tree, John H. McKinzie is shown bn Mar. 1847 in GA; son of James Henry and Sussana Givens McKinzie; mar. 1) Mary Trammel in 1869; was in Washington Co. AR 1860 census; mar. 2) Nancy Jane Mosely in 1896; and, in 1900 Fed. Census, was living in Township 5, Chickasha Nation...(Pontotoc County is in Chickasaw Nation); So he could be buried around Ada. No death date shown on the FT; I did not find either John or George on Findagrave search, but they still could be in another cemetery listing in the area...go to Pontotoc Co. Cemeteries...many of the cemeteries have been canvassed and have a listing of names. I'm no kin but know people who have lived in and around Ada, OK. Good luck. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dannareese Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/37.1.2.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much. This has been such a sad situation for to long. Hopefully they'll make things happen. Tell her that Terry D Cole who is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer is the person that I drove 3 hours and spoke with in person. This was after the first letter I wrote to Chief Pyle. Terry told me that they had surveyed the cemetery and were going to contact the owner of the land and get her ok to go in and fence and clean up, but then I never heard from him again...until I wrote Chief Pyle another letter. This time one of Terry's workers emailed me and I still have that email saved telling me that they were working on it, but that's been over 2 years ago. Terry's number at his office is 580-924-8280. The day I met with him he had called me and we spoke about the cemetery and made a date to meet during spring break of '06 and set a time at his office. I drove down there which is 3 hours for me and he had either not written our appointment down or simply forgot bec! ause he was leaving to go to Mississippi I believe for some thing. I just happened to catch him. I would have been furious if I had of driven that far and him not be there. From the results that I got out of the meeting I might as well have not spoken to him. I just want the cemetery cleaned up and fenced to keep the cows out. Everyone one of us deserves to have a decent burial site where our family and friends can come and pay their respects. It's just so sad to me. Thanks so much for your help with this. Let me know if I can help. Like I said I will be more than happy to come and help with the clean up. Danna Mullens Reese Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: annieedwards1947 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/37.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Where it says "now here in the good old USA" is supposed to be "not here in the good old USA", guess that will teach me to preview it before I post it. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: annieedwards1947 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.cemetery.us.okcempres/37.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Danna, I called my friend in Colbert OK and she was shocked at this story and how its been handled or, should I say mis-handled. She will contact Marion Downs and Chief Pyle. She said she always thought so highly of the Indians because they honored the dead just as they honored the living. So much for that misconception. She said she is also going to call channel 12 news and get them to talk to Marion and the chief also. She said she could hardly believe that this was happening right down the road from her. She said it sounded like something out of a third world country, now here in good old USA. She said it is a shame so many cementerys have just been left to decay without care. She said one just across the border in Denison Grayson TX is also in shambles with tombstones turned over and broken, it is such a shame. Oakwood, I believe it is called. We will see if she or the news media can offer any hope by getting someones attention that has the power to do something. Knowing! her she will keep on until someone listens. Will let you know, we will keep in touch. She also said she is kin to a lot of EARNHARTS and SMITHS that are buried around Durant, Calera, Cartright and Colbert and she said some of her own relatives could possibly be right out there with the cows running across their graves. She said it makes her shudder to think about it. Right under her doorstep. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.