WARDS GROVE CEMETERY

Ward's Grove Cemetery is located in Rogers County, Oklahoma. T23N R17E Sections 19 and 30.

Begin at the Foyil school at the corner of Fourth St and Pine, go north on the county road (S4200}, through the four way stop signs {at .2 mi.}, cross E400, up Coot Robinson's Hill, in .8 mi. turn left, west, on Ward's Grove Cemetery Road. The road is winding. The cemetery will be on your right in about .7 mile. It is about 1.5 mi. from the school.

There are two entrances leading north from the east-west road county road. [see drawings] The first entrance divides immediately Section C on your left and Section E on your right. As you travel north you will find Section D on your left and Section F on your right. The cemetery road turns left, west. On your left is Section D and you will pass on your left the remains of an old cemetery road. That is the divider between Sections D and B. Section B ends at the county road.

The second entrance is the "old" entrance. It divides Section A on your left and Section C on your right. (As you make the curve to your left, after turning in, ahead is what appears to be an "old road" long unused.} The road turns to the left, west, on your right is Section B. The road enters into the county road.

The platting of the cemetery lends itself to rows running north and south. Each row has a variance of spaces between plots, thus, a varying number of plots per row. An attempt was made to locate by use of graph paper. [see field notes and drawings] Some rows have no or few burials, some have many.

Section A begins in the SE corner of that Section with the first 23 plots empty. The first identifiable marker is that of "Ballie BARBEE" in row 1, plot 24. Row two begins with Russell Lowell REED and so forth. There are approximately 17 rows utilized in Section A.

Section B begins in the SE corner of that Section with row 1 plot 1, Coke W. HINTON. At this date this is the largest section. it consists of 23 rows beginning with the "old road" on its east ending against the fence at the county road to the west. The south boundary is a cemetery road and the north boundary is a cemetery road. There may be as many as 70 possible plots in a row. This section has some anomalies because of the curve and location of the cemetery road on its south side. For example: Rows 11 and 14 begin with plots 9 as the first plots with burials in them.

Section C begins in the SE corner of that Section with the first 2 plots empty. The first identifiable marker is Edward E. SEARLES in row 1 plot 3. There are approximately 5 rows in Section C. The platting of Section C, row 2 ends with plot 39, Noah R. SMITH.

Section D begins with several empty plots in row 1. The flag pole is in plot 24, row 1.

The first identifiable burial in row 1 is plot 53, Richard A GLOVER. There are 6 identifiable rows in Section D. The 6th row is in the "old road", plot 49, Florence G. MEACHAM.

Sections E and F are the "new" sections. The platting begins in the south west corner of Section E. Row 1 plat 5 is the first indentifiable burial, James William "Bill" WOOD. At this time it has only one burial outside of row 1. In row 4, plot 44 is Joe C. FORD. This section ends after plot 65, Loran Merle KEELING.

Section F is a continuation of the east side of the cemetery road. The flag pole on the west side of the road is the divider between Sections E and F. Think of a line east from the flag pole continuing to the fence. In Section F the first plot is empty and plot 2 has David Michael RIDDLE. Section F ends where the cemetery road turns west. Sections E and F probably have enough room to have five rows.

Section B, row 10, plot 38 is considered the oldest interment. Lore has the earliest burial here in 1885.

Some rows are curved, some end and offset with another, some "V" with another beginning in the middle of the "V". These rows are not straight, and as with the plots, they were "eyeballed" in an attempt to plat.

There will be an addendum at the end of each calendar year beginning after 2003.