Hello, There is a cemetary in Bokchito, Ok. I went there 2 years ago. I'm not from the area but signs pointed the way. It has many graves, some very old. Kaye Easter Sharon McAllister wrote: > Nalora wrote: > > > I knew where Bokchito was..I have a map. I have a new one (that shows me > all > > the dinky details of every square inch of Oklahoma including windmills!) > > that tells me THERE IS a cemetary nearby. I have a library that tells me > > this cemetary is NOT listed. I have a brain that says: road trip. > > Yep, that's the only solution I know! > > At least this isn't one of those little family plots... the kind that > doesn't show up on even the topographical maps [unless you count a small > unlabeled spot of green vegetation surrounded by fields, recognizeable as a > cemetery only AFTER you've found it and checked it out]. Having taken my > share of road trips, I'd like to offer a word of advice to anyone > contemplating a trip into an unknown area. If at all possible, take along > a native guide IN ADDITION TO a map. > > F'rinstance -- > > I hadn't been to what the family called the Collins cemetery since the > early 50s, even though it was less than 5 miles from home. "Knew" where it > was, of course, but had no reason to go there. Then the genealogy bug bit > and I decided to check it out. Couldn't find it again. Finally talked my > mother into a field trip. > > We found: > > 1. I'd been searching along the wrong section line. > > 2. What had been shrubby in the early 50s was now covered with > full-grown blackjacks [just enough like the location I remembered that I > did recognize it once we got there]. > > 3. The tombstones were gone. > > To cap it all, it turned out that the abandoned cemetery wasn't on the > COLLINS place after all -- it was on the CATRON place. > > In short, if my mother hadn't come along as guide I could have gone right > past it without realizing it. > > I still suspect that some of the COLLINS family were buried there as that's > the best explanation I can come up with for the misinformation handed down > in the family. But there's no one left who knows. > > Sharon McAllister > 73372.1745@compuserve.com