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Welcome to the Wagoner County, OKGenWeb Project!  My name is Clarissa Loyd and I am the Wagoner County Coordinator.  Please check out the extensive research tools in the site menu.  Without volunteers this project would not be what it is today!  The Wagoner County site owes a debt of gratitude to the former Wagoner County Coordinators:  Terrill White, Rose Carter and Linda Simpson.

Wagoner County Cemeteries


If you have a Wagoner County cemetery transcription or photo that you would like to include in this section, please email me.   If a cemetery is currently being transcribed you may still transcribe that cemetery since it has been awhile since someone has volunteered to transcribe the cemetery or you may update a cemetery that was transcribed many years ago.

Cemeteries

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Cemetery Photos Submitter
Marshall Cemetery
NE Muskogee		 --- Need Volunteer
Memorial Park Cemetery
Coweta		 --- Need Volunteer
Mt. Bethel Cemetery --- Wagoner Co. HCE
Transcribing
Oak Grove Cemetery
Adams Creek Township		 --- Mary Lou, Roger & Terry Duncan
Evans Friendly Neighbors HCE
Odd Fellows of Coweta Cemetery
Coweta		 --- Wagoner Co. HCE
Transcribing
Pioneer Cemetery
E Wagoner		 --- Kathy Smith, Wagoner Co. 4-H Members & Parents
Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
E Wagoner		 --- Need Volunteer
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
NW Muskogee		 --- Wagoner Co. HCE
Transcribing
Potter-Simon Cemetery
(aka Bird Cemetery)
Coweta		 --- Wagoner Co. HCE
Transcribing
Red Bird Cemetery
Red Bird		 --- D.J. Jones & E.J. Jackson
Transcribing
Shahan Cemetery #1
Shahan Township		 --- Debbie Young
Shahan Cemetery #2
Shahan Township		 --- Need Volunteer
Smith Cemetery
Oneta		 --- Need Volunteer
Springtown Cemetery
Oneta		 --- James A. Hoffman
Stone Bluff Cemetery
Stone Bluff Township		 --- Debbie Young
Thomas Smith Cemetery
Rocky Point		 --- Virginia Burke & Don Izett
Three Rivers Cemetery
NE Muskogee		 --- Rose Carter & Tiffany Shockhome
Tiger Cemetery
Coweta		 --- Need Volunteer
Vann Cemetery
Taft		 --- Wagoner Co. HCE
Transcribing
Vernon Cemetery - PDF
Vernon Cemetery Information
Vernon Cemetery - Hugo Family		 --- Wagoner Co. HCE
Susan Norris
Willow Springs Cemetery
Neodesha		 --- Wagoner Co. HCE
Transcribing

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What about those "trunk tree" headstones?

Submitted by Terrill White

The Woodmen of the World is a fraternal organization in the United States. The organization was originally founded in 1883 in Omaha, Nebraska or Lyons, Iowa by Joseph Cullen Root as the Modern Woodsmen. Root left the Modern Woodsmen 1890 and founded Woodmen of the World, and that is the only connection between the two the societies.

Originally, when a member died, a hat would be passed to provide some money to his widow. Later, the organization began selling life insurance to its members. It now has many of the characteristics of a modern insurance company.  One of their meeting centers in Eugene, Oregon, the WOW Hall, is now a prominent center for arts and musical entertainment.

The most enduring physical legacy of the order may be the number of distinctive headstones erected in the shape of severed tree by members in American cemeteries.

William J. Simmons, after a successful career as a paid promoter for the Woodmen, went on to found the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915. He was known as "Colonel," his rank in the Woodmen.


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