Description of the Cemetery If you ever visit this cemetery you will understand more about this map and how they buried the ones who have passed on back then. Back then the ones who have passed on were buried very close. Coffins were much smaller and today we have a coffin then we have a vault to protect the coffin.
The funeral homes do not have a map or a full list to tell were every one is buried so I have come up with this map. The cemetery is not this perfect. The head stones are faced different directions. Some that are buried here are not even marked due to markers being moved, rotten or mowed over. If you would like to be buried here please consider the chance of being buried on someone else or if the digger finds another persons remains then they will
just cover that one up and move on to the next site.    The funeral home is not responsible for damaging these old graves and do not have to restore what they have damaged.   Please if you are uncertain about a place you want to be buried in chance someone else is buried there then let that uncertainty give you a chance to let the ones who have passed rest in peace and undisturbed.
There is a New Salem Cemetery Plot List that goes with this map and tells the information on the headstone it self other than verses due to not enough room.
The list has the names/dates and also I have added comments on the information I have found in books/marriage records and other family history donated by family members.

Information by JoLynn Self      H.C. 66 Box 17-1 Sawyer, Oklahoma  74756   jandjself@1starnet.com  2-18-2002

 

• The Self family files contain many of the families buried in this cemetery.

 
• See also Self Family Biographical Information.

 
• Map of New Salem Cemetery Plot Placement and more photographs

 
• Newspaper Articles about the Cemetery

 
• More Photographs of New Salem Cemetery

Reverend Thomas Daniel Ayers (25 Jul 1861-15 Feb 1934) and his wife, Ida Ethlyn Looney Ayers (23 Aug 1859-1 May 1952), previously thought to be buried here, have been found at Oakwood Cemetery in Honey Grove.

The parents of Ida Ethlyn Looney are still thought by family to likely be buried here, though no stones have been found. These are: David Reasons Looney 13 Jan 1799 Sumner County, TN - died 1878 and his wife Mary Ann Fowler Looney b. 1834 in Georgia and d. 9 Mar 1886 in Fannin County, TX.
(Please contact VASPANN@aol.com if you are researching this family.)

• Gillenwater Family Photographs
• Self Family Website
• Page Family Photographs
• Broadfoot Family Photograph

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Notes from Barbara Craddock Pike    see also her other family info
New Salem Cemetery:

Jones, William Craddock  Infant of J.W. & Mary H.02/00/1881-03/00/1881
Jones, Tammie  Dau. Of  J.W. & Mary H.  02/23/1864-08/26/1869

(Mary Hannah Craddock was the daughter of Thomas Elmore Craddock and Malinda Lanius.  She married John Watson Jones in 1860 in Fannin Co.  These two Jones Childen were theirs.  Malinda was already buried in this cemetery, so they must have decided to bury these children next to her.)

Craddock, Malinda  Wife of T.E.    11/16/1822-04/15/1859
(This is Malinda Lanius Craddock.  She was the daughter of Daniel Lanius & Mary (Polly) Butt. Malinda married Thomas Elmore Craddock in 1841 in Madison Co. Missouri. They located in Honey Grove, Fannin Co. about 1848-1849.  She died (apparantly) due to childbirth complications,with her last child,  George S. Craddock, born 2 days before she died.)