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