Union Cemetery Burial List

Union Cemetery Est. 1892, Union Twp, Payne County, Oklahoma Territory

From - The Democratic Banner, Guyandotte, WV, Thursday, 7 May 1874
"Wo, to him who can trample down without emotion the grass of the church yard, and who breathes not within his heart a fervent prayer at sight of those tombs, where so many affections, so many hopes are swallowed up, and many we will hope are at rest in the Lord. The only thing certain is the distruction of the body, and the immortality of the soul; for that frail body, dust and forgetfulness. For the soul, a celestial dwelling where it will enjoy eternal happiness, if it has not betrayed the purpose of its mission, in the course of its short pilgrimage on earth. Yes! tread lightly in the cemetery; there kneel in that place consecrated to grief and meditation. It seems impossible, even to approach such a spot without the soul being benefited; it will probably awaken some holy recollections of childhood or some warning of the shortness of life. What a volume are those tombs; how eloquently do they speak to the heart, at least to those who understand their language --how forcibly do they announce the nothingness of terrestrial things! Yes! it is in these pages, traced by the hand of death, that we may study and learn the necessity of virtue -- If man approached more frequently the resting place of the dead he would not remain so indifferent to the mild voice of conscience."

This is a partial list of the BURIALS which I am transcribing from the old Sexton records book now in the possession of Ted & Frances Driggs, the current sextons & caretakers. I will have the rest in a few days and will add to this record with a Map of the cemetery showing locations of each burial.
A more complete Tombstone transcriptions from each stone and photos, as well as from the county files, will be added here as I get to them. If you don't see your family here, please come back as I will post all as soon as I can get to them.

Please Note: I neither Research Genealogy nor Do Look-ups for other families. These records are posted in the hopes that it will help others find the burials of lost loved ones and to also help the Union Cemetery effort - Teddie Anne "Annie" Driggs

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The Union Cemetery MAP will go here

BURIALS
All the ROWS run North to South with graves facing the rising sun. Some of these burials are family plots and some are individual gravesites.]

Beginning on the East corner of the Union Cemetery, on the North end:

1a. BLACKBURN (Husband & Wife)
Joseph - 1930
Elizabeth - 1940
(NOTE: The BLACKBURN family plot is a burial in the Northeast in the access roadway - we do not know why it was placed there, instead of in the ROW):

- then moves over 25 ft. from access road, to begin plotting with Row 1.

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ROW 1

1. [DIX Family-owned plot]
     William T. DIX - buried 1924 [Union Army Veteran]
     Josephine DIX (Wife) - 1913
     Joseph MOSIER - 1881
     Catherine MOSIER (Wife) - 1921

2. [Geo. W. STILES Family-owned plot]
Frank Merritt STILES - 1894 *

3. Bob MANSFIELD Family lot
Unknown Baby (?)

4.   [T. A. DRIGGS Family-owned plot]
        (of the original Cushing settlers)
    Charles Eric LEDBETTER (young son) - 1995
         ~ son of Teddie Anne DRIGGS

Note: The STILES * family had been using the Brethren Cemetery west of Cushing for some time, and no longer needed their plot, so they deeded it back to the Union Cem., It was sold to Mrs. T. A. Driggs-Ledbetter in 1995.

5. [vacancy]

6. [W. E. CARDIN Family-owned plot]
     Addie CARDIN - 1912
     W. E. CARDIN - 1948
     Darrell "Blackie" CARDIN - 1996(?)
     Emma Lou CHAFFEY (dau. of Darrell CARDIN) - 2000

7. J. J. PARIS - 1913
M. E. PARIS - 1913

8. [H. L. FULKERSON Family-owned plot]
   [this is a Husband & Wife burial]- the Original Fulkerson's of Cushing)
    Harley L. FULKERSON (husband) - 1939 (no info on wife)
    Augusta Erma FULKERSON (child) - 1916
    Marvin Loyd FULKERSON (child) - 1911

9. [H. L. FULKERSON Family-owned plot]
Myrtle Marie FULKERSON (child of above couple) - 1913

10. [FULKERSON family-owned plot]
Effie Elizabeth EMBRY - 1974

End of ROW 1 - on southeast side of cemetery

There is a 25 ft. roadway to the south fence

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ROW 2
- beginning on the southeast end of the cemetery and going North

11. James SHADDOWEN - 1998

12. [H. L. FULKERSON Family-owned plot]
never used [vacancy]

13. [J. W. FULKERSON Family-owned plot] (Husband & Wife stone?) - only shows the one date
       J. W. FULKERSON - (north side)
       Lucinda FULKERSON - 1909 (south side)
       [Baby Matts?]

14. [Frank COURTRIGHT Family-owned plot]
Orrison COURTRIGHT - 1909

15. [PVT. 1st CL] John ISOM - 1927
[a small W. W. I Veteran stone]
- sad to say that this beautiful memorial was broken by vandals in 1980s

16. [Archie MANSFIELD Family-owned plot]
never used [vacancy]

17. [vacancy]

18. B. J. FULLER - 1906

19. Ed WALKER - 1898
( ) WALKER (young boy) - no stone or date known

20. [R. H. LAMLEY Family-owned plot]
      Royal Henry LAMLEY - 1923
      Lacha LAMLEY - 1896
      Aunt Jessie LAMLEY (sister of first wife)

~ end of Row 2 on Northeast end of cemetery)

[Then a 25 ft. easement to the north road front on Grandstaff Rd.]

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ROW 3
- (From the Front Gate Entrance on the east side of the Main Access Driveway, going South):

21. [J. W. MANSFIELD Family-owned plot] - of the original Cushing settlers
      Sarah Myrtle MANSFIELD - 1902
      Fred MANSFIELD (son) - 1923
      J. W. MANSFIELD - 1919
      Sarah E. MANSFIELD - 1899

22. [H. H. HENDERSON Family-owned plot] - old family too
       Hubert H. HENDERSON - 1940
       Sarah E. HENDERSON - 1945
       Paul L. HENDERSON - 1937
       Manvil L HENDERSON (son) - 1919

23. Bethel MANSFIELD (dau of the above) - 1908
Virgil MANSFIELD (son of the above) - 1899

24. S. W. KELLER - (no date)
Stone there reads "MOTHER"

25. [Chas. M. SHREVES Family-owned plot]
       (covered over with concrete)
     Large spire-like stone in the middle "Father":
     Charles Milton SHREVES (father) - 1915
    [there are four smaller stones, on either side of the large one]
    a. Ida Mae (May) SHREVES "Mother" - 1949
    b. Viva SHREVES - (no date)
    c. Freddie SHREVES - (no date)

26. {E. TANNER Family-owned plot]
George W. TANNER - 1903 [Civil War Veteran- Union]

27. [Eli. McINTOSH Family-owned plot]
Luther McINTOSH - 1906

28. [Manly THOMAS family-owned plot]
      Amanda E. THOMAS - 1949
      Manly THOMAS - 1928
      Manly THOMAS (child) - 1913

29. [H. L. BROWN family-owned plot]
(no other info in records)

30. John A. SMITH (Rev.) - Apr 2002
(Husband of LeaDean CRAIG-SMITH, my father's BAILEY cousin)

~ end of Row 3 on south end of Cemetery

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N. to S. MAIN ACCESS DRIVEWAY from FRONT GATE ENTRANCE on Grandstaff Rd.

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ROW 4
- (going back North on west side of Main Access Driveway)

31. Wanda CRAIG-MARTIN (my father's Bailey cousin) - 1993
[dau. of William "Wild Bill" CRAIG and Avis BAILEY-CRAIG]

32. [Samuel HALL Family-owned plot]
never used [vacancy]

33. Bessie YOUNT - (no date)

34. [N. GARRET Family-owned plot]
marker (but no name or date)
[Record shows the lot was made out to "GARRET". No other info available from records book. ]

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< -EXIT DRIVEWAY to West Gate on Battleridge Rd. from Main Driveway (longer used)

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35. Flag Pole area (12 X 21 ft)

36. [ROSS]

37. [R. CARDIN Family-owned plot]
Talitha (nee MILLER)

38. [T. W. LAWSON Family-owned plot]

39. D. M. FERRY

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ROW 5 - going back South from North end of Cemetery

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40. (VACANT)

41. J. C. HENDERSON

42. Ed McCASKEL

43. Joe YOUNT

44. Geo. HULL

45. Joe HARILAND

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46. No Info [poss. VACANT]

47. [Ben. DENNIS Family-owned plot]
(young Son)
(Written on the Cem. Platt is the name, "Edward")

48. [Ben. DENNIS family-owned plot]
(another young Son)
(Written on the Cem. Platt is the name, "Edward")

49. D. D. BEEN

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ROW 6 - heading back North

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50. Baby WEBB

51. R. COCKRELL

52. Mary COCKRELL

53. No Info
(Poss. VACANT)

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< -EXIT DRIVEWAY to West Gate on Battleridge Rd. from Main Driveway (longer used)

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54. H. FOX

55. No Info

56. N. LOFTIN Family-owned plot
(Margaret)

57. RUSK

58. [J. H. (John Hamilton) DRIGGS Family-owned plot - Large Juniper trees on either end & plot surrounded by concrete wall]
       Elliott Driggs (his younger brother)- South end of plot
      Then one stone for husband & wife:
      Husband - John Hamilton DRIGGS (Civil War Veteran UNION ARMY- Kentucky)
      Wife - Lucinda Josephine (nee GOULD)
      Eunice Eugenie DRIGGS - north end of plot
NOTE: the stone was moved by vandals in 1984 and sits now at the foot of her parent's stone, but her burial is on the north side of her parents.

59. [Chas. HUMPHREY Family-owned burial]
(his wife)

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ROW 7 - going back South)

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60. W. N. (Walter Nelson) DRIGGS plot
Child
Note: Walter Nelson DRIGGS & Myrtle E. DRIGGS (nee BROWN) are buried at Fairlawn Cem., Hwy18, N. of Cushing, OK.

61. J. R. CARDIN plot

62. E. BOLIVER plot

63. No Info

64. DODSON plot

65. [Mark BRANSTETTER Family-owned plot]

66. Ben WILSON

67. [L. L. FERGUSON Family plot]

68. [F. H. FERGUSON Family plot]

69. No Info

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ROW 8 - beginning on the southwest end, and going back North

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70. STEDDUM plot
Gary STEDDUM

71. Tom COALE

72. J. W. BATCHER

73. Lilly STALLSWORTH

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< -EXIT DRIVEWAY to West Gate on Battleridge Rd. from Main Driveway (longer used)

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74. S. HENDRIX
E. H. HAZELTON

75. [LOYD YOUNT Family plot]
Loyd & Sarah M. YOUNT
"Father" & "Mother"

76. J. T. FOSTER

77. [T. E. DRIGGS Family-owned plot - for future burial]
(2 Stones in place, but neither is deceased)

78. [W.A. DRIGGS Family-owned plot]
Husband: William Albert "Bert" DRIGGS
Wife: Matilda Artnecie "Till" (nee NIMROD)
Read about Bert & Till Driggs - Oklahoma Pioneers on the 1891 Land Run

79. [J. H. (John Herman) DRIGGS Family plot]
Infant dau. Driggs (twin) - b. 22 My, 1917; d. 22 May, 1917
Jack H. DRIGGS (twin) - b. 22 May, 1917; d. 28 Dec, 1997 (Cremated-Interred here on Memorial Day, May 31, 1998)
Note: John Herman DRIGGS & Louise Jean "Lou Jean" DRIGGS (nee BROWN) were buried at Fairlawn Cemetery, N of Cushing, Payne CO. OK.

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ROW 9 - last row, northwest corner, going back South)

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80. [W. J. RAMSEY Family plot]
W. J. RAMSEY
B. RAMSEY

81. [J. F. RAMSEY Family plot]

82. {T. E. RAMSEY Family plot]
(Geo. RAMSEY)

83. B. HENDERSON

84. W. L. BROWN (father of Myrtle & Lou Jean Brown- Driggs)

85. C. H. BARTON

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