Adair County, OK
Cherokee Cemetery
Burial Ground Form
Works Progress Administration
Indian-Pioneers Papers Project for Oklahoma
Cemeteries-Oklahoma
Whooper Cemetery
Adair County, Oklahoma
Field Worker: Dan Hummingbird
June 23, 1937
Whooper Cemetery
Founded: 1880 by Whooper family
Abandoned: 1898, reason, died out
Original Owner: Charlie Whooper
Approximately 10 graves
No marked graves
Cemetery in poor condition
Adair County, Oklahoma
Sec. 28 Twp. 17 R-25
Cemetery is in the far Northeastern Corner of the section
This information was furnished by Charley Watt, a full blood Cherokee, who
helped bury every person who was buried at this place.
He says that this cemetery was started about 1880. Squirrel Whooper was the
first one buried here.
There are six graves, only member of the Whooper family being interred here.
Charley Whooper was the last man buried at this place in 1907.
The old house burned down after the death of Charley. The condition of this
cemetery is poor.
Transcribed by Catherine Widener, 2002
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