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 Updated: 29 Oct 2009
Calhoun Cemetery
LeFlore County, Oklahoma
Location: 4 mile SW of Shady Point
was Sutter Cemetery until 1914 
aka Number 9 Cemetery
Section 12, T7N, R24E
 

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SURNAME GIVEN BIRTH DEATH SOURCE COMMENTS
           
GASTON Dock       see below
GASTON Freddie       see below
GASTON Violet       see below
JONES John 00-00-0000 08-11-1918   age 41
VAUGHAN Virgil 00-00-0000 09-26-1910 Vaughn Page  age 19

The cemetery was sometimes referred to as Number Nine Cemetery because it was located close to the old Number Nine Coal Mine. About 1918, eleven miners were killed in a mine explosion. Some of them are buried in this cemetery. 

The cemetery is in two parts: the White side and the Colored side. Most of the graves are unmarked. Information on some of the unmarked graves was obtained from old funeral home records. There are only 3 marked graves. It appears there were 11 'white' graves and 5 'colored' graves. 

Dock Gaston is buried beside his children, Freddie C. and Violet Gaston.

Source: July 2002 Sylvia Kralik  with the assistance of the PVGS Ladies. 

 

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LeFlore Co. OK
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Updated: 30 Oct 2009
Marti Graham, County Coordinator

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