>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:18:33 EST >From: WendyGayle@aol.com >To: OK-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <18.c4bf3c.25cb66c9@aol.com> >Subject: [OK-OBITS-L] CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >A gentleman that lives in Claremore, Rogers County, OK wrote me and asked for >help. > One more thing about cemeteries; in the mid to late 1800's the town of >> Claremore was 3 1/2 miles north of its present location. They moved it >> so it could be on the railroad. At the old town site was a small >> cemetery with some fairly large headstones. It now sits in the middle >> of a ranch. Some one up there has been bulldozing trees and brush and >> have bulldozed the cemetery off in a ravine. Is there anything that can >> be done about this? I've contacted the county commissioner, the >> mayor,and the Rogers County Historical Society. Nothing has been done. >> Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks again for >> everything. >> >> Who was the commissioner you contacted? If need be I will call the town >> council. This is ridiculous and is still bothering me. I wonder if the >one >> you are talking about is the old Talber Cemetery that I can't find anything >> on. Let me know. >I asked him who the commissioner was that he contacted and perhaps he should >contact the newspaper. Here was the reply: > >Wendy, >The county commissioner that I contacted is Gerry Payne. That's his >district where it's located. Gerry didn't know that the cemetery >existed and he did go check on it and told me that I was right that it >was the old Claremore Cemetery and that it was gone and that it had been >bulldozed. I don't know if it had been called the Talber Cemetery or >not. I had always heard it called the old Claremore Cemetery. I don't >think Gerry knew what to do about it, so he hasn't done anything. When >I was a teen ager growing up here, one of my friend's dad was the >foreman for that ranch ( at that time under a different owner) and I >spent a lot of time roaming around that ranch. We used to read on the >old tombstones. I would guess there was about 30 or 40 graves, but >that's been so many years ago I can't really remember. I do remember >some of the names; such as Bushyhead which was an Indian family from >this area, and also several members of the Starr family. We used to >think they were probably some of Belle Starr's family since this area is >where she was from. The Indians might be who we should contact. Let me >know what you think about that. Thanks >Ed > >What should be my course of action. > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:30:53 -0500 >From: "Keith Lowrey" <rklowrey@mindspring.com> >To: OK-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <001e01bf6ea7$c6b35ae0$4f72f7a5@compaq> >Subject: Re: [OK-OBITS-L] CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I would certainly like for this subject to be kept alive on this and other >lists. At the moment, I have no recommendations. However, this is happening >more and more and I would like to know how others have dealt with the >issue.. I would certainly like to help, however I can. Keith Lowrey >----- Original Message ----- > >Subject: [OK-OBITS-L] CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED > > >Subject: Re: [OK-OBITS-L] CEMETERY IN CLAREMORE BEING BULLDOZED >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I am shocked this goes on. I think getting ahold of the media is a great >idea. To make it public and bring it to peoples attention, would have a >great impact. I didn't know this sort of thing was stil happening!! > >Also, the ancestors of these Bushyhead's (if I understood previous messages >correctly) will be outraged at this. I have heard this name on one of the >lists I'm on lately, too. > >Maybe in the meantime a petition on the internet might help?? > >Becky ......north Idaho...... > > >