----- > > Many decades ago in the settling of Indian Territory, small towns were > founded, flourished and died until nothing was left but an old pear tree > marking a house site, a sunken cellar and purple Iris that bloom in the > spring. Then there is a cemetery with rusting barbed wire fence and leaning > tombstones amid tall grass. Teller was one of those towns, located five > mile south of Tishomingo in Johnston County. > > Several years ago it was facing abandonment when one person began cleaning, > mowing and maintaining it each year alone. Last year a few volunteers > showed up on "work day". This person is no longer able to do this because > of health reasons and must depend on donations. The Chickasaw Nation > donated labor and materials for a nice fence. > > Names on the tombstones include Swindell, Brokeshoulder, Turnbull, > Annotubby, Beaver, Russell, Brown, Irwin, Butler, Johnson, and many others. > Send a SASE for a history of Teller. Go to :rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/OK/Johnston/cemeteries/teller.txt for a list of tombstones. > > Donations may be mailed to: Teller Cemetery Committee > Rt. 2, Box 410 > Tishomingo, Ok > 73460 > > Ruby Beaver rbeaver@simplynet.net > Researching: BALLARD, BEAVER, BENNETT, > CLEMENS, FOWLER, JOHNSON, MARSHALL, PEYTON, SWINDELL, WARD, WALKER > > > ==== JOHNSON Mailing List ==== > Do not flame other members of the mailing list > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >