Old Five Mile Cemetery
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Old Five Mile Cemetery

Murray County, Oklahoma, USA

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  • Get directions N3192 Road
    null, Oklahoma 73444 United States
    Coordinates: 34.50056, -97.30778
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Turner Twp, T1S R1W SW 1/4, NW 1/4, Sec 4

From Davis, go west on SH 7 about 9.5 miles to Mountain View Road. Turn south and go to first section line, turn right & travel west on county road 9/10ths of a mile. There is a sign on the right that reads "Arbuckle Ranch" with an underground house. The pasture gate will be there on the left. Take the pasture road 3/10ths of a mile over the hill until you come to a fork in the path, take the right fork. Continue down the hill until you come to the flat near a creek. The cemetery is about fifty yards to the right (west) in a grove of trees.

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Old Five Mile cemetery is one of the most historically significant cemeteries west of Davis Oklahoma in Murray County as it is an African American cemetery which contains the Chickasaw and Choctaw Freedmen (ex-slaves) and their descendants. The slaves were brought with the Chickasaw and Choctaw people when the U.S. Government removed them from Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Old Five Mile is one of the first cemeteries in Murray County and possibly the oldest as there are many graves marked with only native stones. There are also five graves that are the typical stone monoliths of Chickasaw burials. Descendants of these interred still live in the area known as Jacksonville. Before school integration there was a county school in the area known as Jackson Special School for local black children. The cemetery has been horribly vandalized with every tombstone, toppled and smashed to pieces.

Source: http://www.interment.net/data/us/
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Turner Twp, T1S R1W SW 1/4, NW 1/4, Sec 4

From Davis, go west on SH 7 about 9.5 miles to Mountain View Road. Turn south and go to first section line, turn right & travel west on county road 9/10ths of a mile. There is a sign on the right that reads "Arbuckle Ranch" with an underground house. The pasture gate will be there on the left. Take the pasture road 3/10ths of a mile over the hill until you come to a fork in the path, take the right fork. Continue down the hill until you come to the flat near a creek. The cemetery is about fifty yards to the right (west) in a grove of trees.

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Old Five Mile cemetery is one of the most historically significant cemeteries west of Davis Oklahoma in Murray County as it is an African American cemetery which contains the Chickasaw and Choctaw Freedmen (ex-slaves) and their descendants. The slaves were brought with the Chickasaw and Choctaw people when the U.S. Government removed them from Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Old Five Mile is one of the first cemeteries in Murray County and possibly the oldest as there are many graves marked with only native stones. There are also five graves that are the typical stone monoliths of Chickasaw burials. Descendants of these interred still live in the area known as Jacksonville. Before school integration there was a county school in the area known as Jackson Special School for local black children. The cemetery has been horribly vandalized with every tombstone, toppled and smashed to pieces.

Source: http://www.interment.net/data/us/
ok/murray/old_five/index.htm










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