Dear List Members, I receive the following message today and am wondering if there is anyone on the list who lives close to this cemetery and would be willing to survey it for the Oklahoma Cemetery website and take pictures. Kathleen Burnett List Mom david yandell wrote: dyandell@msn.com > Dear Ms. Burnett: Re: Barnett Cemetery found near Wetumpka in Hughes > Co. OK. In today's (Monday) Daily Oklahoma, there is a front-page > article about this cemetery Mr. Alton Barger, found on his land near > Wetumpka. He did list some names--one Civil War Col and his > wife--buried there with several others. Is there someone who could > check this out and perhaps get the names listed for the > internet? WinnieChickasha, OKdyandell@msn.com >

This cemetery has been listed on the Hughes County site for some time. It was canvassed in about 1979, I'm not real sure of that date by Fran Cook. At this time, I do not have the list of those buried there but I'll be happy to check on it. I hope to have it online soon. Vickie Neill Taylor flip@okplus.com

My husband and I "explored" this cemetery about 14 years ago looking for his great-grandfather Denney who is supposedly buried "near Wetumka". At that time it was severely overgrown and had more frogs hopping around and in it than I had ever seen in my life. Since I had on sandals, my husband waded in to look for information. He reported not seeing any identifiable names on anything. I later contacted a firm somewhere in OK who will search cemeteries for a fee and their report said there were a few stones with the name Barnett and no names left on any of the stones and the cemetery was in terrible dis-repair. I don't know if I still have the photos they sent, but there were a few above ground level graves made from some kind of red bricks. Hope someone has abetter luck than we did!!! Mary Anne Denney