Oklahoma Genealogical Society
Oak
Ridge Cemetery
Murray-Garvin
Co., Oklahoma
From Oklahoma Genealogical Society
Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 1976
Transcribed to electronic form by Jo White
Canvassed by Robert and Kay Beal, Ridgecrest, California,
who have supplied the following information:
The cemetery is about four miles west of Davis, Oklahoma,
on Highway #7. [Editor’s note: very near the Murray-Garvin County line.] It is about a half mile north of the
highway. (See map) This data (sic) were
collected on November 19, 1973. At that
time, erosion had completely erased signs of the old road leading to Oak Ridge. To reach the cemetery, a fence and field had
to be crossed. The area is on Youngblood’s property. It is overgrown and many of the headstones
have tipped over.
Many of the
graves were unmarked. Some were marked
by only a cinder block taken from a block fence that surrounded the Digby
plot. Some graves were marked by metal
markers with a glass plate; their information has not survived aging. Perhaps there is a record of them
somewhere. The funeral home in Davis
provided the service for many buried at Oak Ridge and their records date back
to 1924.
The newspaper
obituaries found in The Davis News merit attention for anyone seeking
genealogical data. As of 1974, there
was no copying machine at the newspaper, but they will hire someone to type a
copy of the obituary if a name, death date, and some sort of fee are
provided. Since death certificates for
this area are noticeably lacking, The Davis News is a good source, and
their files date back to 1898.
Numbers correspond with maps of cemetery
at end of article.
- Judy Paralee Farris: Dec. 26, 1873 -- Jan 14,
1918: (New stone put there a few
years ago by her children. Exact
spot is vague) Her sisters, Ruth and Tilda, were buried near her. Their maiden name was Moxley. Tilda Moxley Carlton died in May 1915.
- Burrel H. Christy: Born March 13, 1889 -- Died
July 17, 1919. (BHC on what
appears to be a footstone.)
- Three cinder blocks supposedly to mark the
graves of Judy Farris’s sisters.
- Allen Seargy: Born Feb. 8, 1890 – Died July 29, 1916
(Birth date was a little vague.
1890 may not be correct.)
There are metal markers just south of the Seargy grave.
5.
Small concrete stone too old to read.
- Small concrete stone too old to read.
- G.B. Peel: Born July 1, 1873 – Died 6 Oct.
1910? (Fenced-in area)
- “Little brother,” son of W. E. & Nancy
Peel: Born Nov. 29, 1909
- Cinder block
- James S. Scribner: Born Jan. 10, 1904 – Died
Jan. 9, 1923
- E. V. (Two wooden stakes in a fenced area. One looks like a child’s grave.)
- Metal marker and cinder block
- Metal marker
- A.M. Jeeter:
Jan. 11, 1845 – Nov. 10, 1923
- Metal marker
- Stone
- Father: W.B. Wells: Born Jan. 6, 1857 – Died
Dec. 22, 1923
Mother: Blank
(This is a large double stone.
There is a son buried east of him.)
- Metal marker
- McKenley, son of J.B. and D.C. Shelton: Born
June 19, 1897 – Died July 27, 1898
- Corp’l W.W. Smith, Co. H, 5th Mo.,
Cav.: Born Sept. 19, 1837 – Feb. 11, 1897
- Mary Smith: Born June 6, 1819 – Died Feb. 2,
1897
- [Ed. Note: Number 22 missing in article but
noted on map at end of article.]
- Old large stone – unreadable
- William Paul Hutchins: Born Oct. 19, 1894 – Died
Nov. 2, 1894
- M.M. Hutchinson: Born June 23, 1859 – Died Oct.
18, 1911
- O.C., son of W.H. & Ellen J. Greer: Dec. 16,
1916 – Sept. 25, 1920 (Fenced area)
- Dink Greer, Dau. of W.H. & Ellen J. Greer:
Born Feb. 9, 1907 – Died Jan. 17, 1911 (Inside fenced area)
- Headstone, unreadable
- Small stone
- James Dunaway, Sr.: Born Sept. 21, 1833 – Died
Oct. 22, 1895
- Maud, dau. of
David and Julia Willis: Born June 10, 1889 – Died June 8, 1900
- Small stone
- Elizabeth, dau. of J.R. Allen: 1901 – 1902
- Jodie V., dau of J.L. & N.M. Fergnson
(Ferguson?): Born Dec. 1, 1895 – Died July 1, 1900
- Metal marker
- Metal marker
- Metal marker
- A bunch of rocks; may be grave markers
- A rock
- J.F. Copeland: Born July 1, 1895 – Died June 27,
1902
- Large metal fenced-in area. Could not find any markers in the long
grass
- Fenced-in area; Could not find any markers
- William Emmons: 1845 – 1901
- Cinder block
- Old broken markers and several cinder
blocks. All I could make out was
H.E. and someone had marked an “R” in it
- Three stones together: R born ? 7, 1907; M
(unreadable)
- Unreadable
- Chester E. Field, Company E, 134 Infantry: Aug.
4, 1892 – Sept. 23, 1918 – Died at Camp Dicks, N.J.
- Father, J.F. Cordell: 1852 – 1907
- Isral or Iral Wilson: Born June 19, 1901 – Died
April 6, 1905
- W.A. Harmon: Born Feb. 14, 1866 – Died Oct. 10,
1915 – Woodman of the World monument
- Amos Lee, son of W. & M. Harman: Born Feb.
29, 190? – Died ? 20, 1902
- Russel Allan: Born Dec. 7, 1903 – Died Sept. 5,
1904
- Vernie, son of J. ? orea?: Born in July – Died
in Nov. 19??
- Metal Marker
- Headstones – one has 1934 scratched on it
- Old rock marker
- About 8
large building stones stacked up as some sort of monument
- Digby family plot: It has three cinder blocks
plus three headstones in it
- Herman, son of Robert and Edna Priest: Born May
12, 1904 – Died Sept. 12, 1905
- R. Priest: Mar. 13, 1878 – Jan. 25, 1926
- B.F. Digby: Mar. 4, 1835 – Mar. 13, 1920
- Luecindie Digby: Aug. 10, 1839 – Sept. 10, 1924
- T.B. Bentley: 32 years old – Died Oct 8, 1937
Information on
some of the unmarked graves:
- Roxie Digby Rayburn: Born about 1872 – 24 May
1915
- Nancy Digby Bently: Born 1860s in Alabama
- Daniel Hunt: 27 Feb. 1854 Alabama – 13 June 1919
- Marinda Rikard Hunt, Daniel’s wife: 27 May 1852
– Dec. 1919
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