Thomas Cemetery

Date: July 2, 2002

Cemetery: Oak Grove Cemetery
Street:
City: Oak Grove Community, east of Broken Arrow
County: Wagoner
State: Oklahoma
Nation: USA
Zip:
Location: Section 36, R15E, T19N, Adams Creek Township, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. East side of Oak Grove Road, between 61st and 51st Street.
Land Type: Private
Status: Abandoned
Accessible: Open
Unmarked graves: Large number of unmarked graves
Graves within: 39
Oldest grave: 1902
Newest grave: 1947
Records: Unknown
Inventory: Last inventoried by Donald A. Wise May 28, 1988
Records location: Unknown
Owner: Unknown
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction

Vandalized: No
Overgrowth: Problem-Access
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Drainage: Good
Problem: Apathy
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Restoration: No work started as of yet
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Residential
Change: Unknown
Reason:
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Contacted: Tulsa county court house

Other Information:. This cemetery will be cleaned up and kept that way even if I have to do it myself. There are so many children resting in this cemetery. The only thing that I am worried about is how to go about restoring the headstones or even if that can be done?

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name: Lana Trussell
Email: nanalana42@cox.net

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