LONE TREE CEMETERY AKA LIBERTY AKA WEEKS SEC-22 TWP-17 R-26 LOCATION: 6 MILES WEST OF ARNETT TO JUNCTION OF 6O AND 283 HIGHWAYS. TURN SOUTH, FOLLOWING THE BLACKTOP HIGHWAY 10 MILES, TURN OFF ONTO THE DIRT ROAD AND CONTINUE SOUTH FOR 6 MILES, GO WEST 1 1/2 MILE. THE LAND WAS OWNED BY QUILLIE BARTON. IT NOW BELONGS TO THE LONE TREE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. THE OLDEST BURIAL ON RECORD IS THAT OF BLANCH BARTON IN 1904. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, OKLA DEARING MCQUIGG WROTE TO ALL KNOWN FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED TO VERIFY INFORMATION. OKLA AND ONE OF HER SONS WORKED THE CEMETERY RECORDS AND DEVELOPED A MAP LISTING ALL KNOWN BURIALS IN THE CEMETERY. IN 1993 A GREAT DISCOVERY WAS MADE WHEN GOING THRU THE FILES OF "PIONEERS BEFORE 1915" AT THE GENEOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE WOODWARD LIBRARY. THIS FILE GAVE US THE MUCH-NEEDED DOCUMENTS TO GIVE MR. YOCUM AN IDENTITY. MR. HIEL G. YOCUM TURNED OUT TO BE A UNION CIVIL WAR VETERAN. THIS FILE CONTAINED COPIES OF RECORDS PROVING HE LIVED,DIED AND WAS BURIED IN THIS COMMUNITY. IT ALSO PROVIDED INFORMATION ON HIS FAMILY AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTER HIS DEATH.     EPITAPH ~~~~~~~ "YOUR HERITAGE I LEAVE THEE" NAME FIRST MIDDLE DOD VET =============== =============== =============== ========== ====== ARMSTRONG, W. -------- BARTON, ALICE EILEEN 08-02-24 BARTON, BLANCHE 10-08-04 BROWEN, INFANT -------- DEARING, ANDREW NEWTON "DICK" 02-14-05 poss DEARING, BARBARA CAROLINE 10-23-22 DEARING, CARL ------29 DEARING, ELLIS C. -------- DEARING, J. C. ------26 DEARING, LELA ------13 DEARING, LOIS 09-19-11 DEARING, OPAL FAYE 03-24-18 DYRL, UNKNOWN -------- EVERHART, MARY JANE 03-21-13 GARRISON, L.,MRS. -------- GRACE, M. M. -------- GRANDSTAFF, UNKNOWN -------- GREEN, EFFIE ROSE 01-26-79 GREEN, GLEN DICK 01-04-20 GREEN, INFANT DAU. 12-04-08 GREEN, ZACHARIAH 07-08-54 HARBOUR, JOHN JR. -------- HARDAGE, J. F. 02----18 HOSKINS, MRS.JOHN SEE:WASS -------- JACKSON, RICHARD M. 03-31-05 LAMB, CHARLIE -------- LARSON, THELMA 09-07-06 MCMILLAN, INFANT DAU. ------30 MCNEELY, M. S. -------- NOBBS, MR. -------- NORTHRUP, HARRY 02-24-40 NORTHRUP, KATE M. 12-09-57 NORTHRUP, SHERWOOD 11-18-30 PARKS, TOM -------- PRICE, ALMA 09-12-18 PRICE, BOYD 12-05-18 PRICE, BURL 12-16-18 PRICE, ELMER 09-06-05 PRICE, EMORY BLACK 10-21-06 C/S PRICE, NORMA 01-07-17 PRICE, TRAVIS A. 03-08-16 RAKES, DORA L. 10-27-10 RAKES, JAMES C. "JACK" ------28 RAKES, NANCY "NANNIE" ------28 RILEY, MAMIE LEE 12-24-12 ROESNER, UNKNOWN -------- SIAS, JAMES B. "BENNY" 01-24-57 SPROUSE, WILSON -------- STOUT, LEE ------09 TRUITT, F. M.,JR. 06-20-09 TURNER, FRANCES T. 05-19-05 TURNER, GEORGE M. 03-31-31 C/S WASS, CHARLEY G. 01-22-14 poss WASS, CHARLEY,MRS. AKA 12-06-27 WASS, FRANK G. 09-29-18 I** WEEKS, INFANT DAU. -------- WILSON, L. L. 04-10-07 YOCUM, HIEL GIDEON 09-01-05 C/N YOUNG, UNKNOWN --------