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This site was the old Fairfield Mission. "Established among the western Cherokees by Dr. Marcus Palmer in 1829 under the auspices of Boston based American board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
First located in Pope County, Arkansas Territory, and known as Mulberry Mission.
Other missionaries serving at Fairfield included Dr. Elizur Butler, Rev. Charles C. Torrey, and teachers, Clarissa Palmer, Lucy Butler, Addie Torrey, and Esther Smith.
A circulation library of 150 volumes was established there in 1832 and was likely the firsh such library in Oklahoma.
The mission, discontinued in 1859, was located on Sallisaw Creek about 8 miles SW of Stilwell.
The mission cemetery is now known as the McLemore Cemetery.
Marker, Oklahoma Historical Society, 63-1995.
This cemetery is in use today. It is well maintained and fenced. Some of the old stones are broken and could be restored.
There was a survey in 1979 and some of the oldest stones were not listed. They state it was fenced, some graves maintained, which leaves me to believe it was overgrown with weeds at that time and has been restored to present condition since that survey.
If you know who is buried with the field rock markers, please let me know.
There are a couple of places with the sunken appearance of an old grave but no stone.
Send me an e-mail.
| Alberty | Sarah | no date | June 18, 1830 | Erectedy by Moses Alberty In Memory of his wife who parted this life June the 18 1880 aged 37 years. Stone hewed by F. Daly photo Chronicles of Oklahoma |
| Aldrich | Rev. Samuel | no date | November 22, 1835 | aged 37 years. photo Chronicles of Oklahoma |
| Bearpaw | William | July 17, 1884 | June 15, 1894 | Son of Alex & Akey Bearpaw. photo |
| Beaver | Betsy | September 28, 1912 | June 7, 1997 | photo |
| Campbell | James | no date | December 7, 1840 | Aged 44 years For 9 years a member of the congregation Church of Fairfield Cherokee Nation. photo |
| Chuculate | Mary | June 22, 1917 | March 25, 1918 | photo |
| Chuculate | Sarah | 1880 | 1914 | Wife of Conseen Chuculate (Wilson & White) photo |
| Cricket | Ellen & Baby | March 15, 1902 | April 2, 1924 | photo |
| Eads | Burt | January 18, 1886 | June 18, 1854 | Dbl with Callie Eads photo |
| Eads | Callie | January 19, 1891 | December 3, 1955 | Dbl with Burt Eads photo |
| Eads | Joe Ervin | January 11, 1914 | November 3, 1995 | "SGT US ARMY WORLD WAR II". photo |
| Eads | John D. | July 1, 1843 | January 2, 1926 | photo |
| Fields | Albert | 1969 | 1998 | photo obit |
| Fields | Sue | December 7, 1927 | October 10, 1996 | photo |
| Fourkiller | Unknown | unknown | unknown | photo |
| Fourkiller | Thomas | 1976 | 1977 | photo |
| Grasshopper | Sarah | 1915 | 1966 | This name was listed on a survey in 1979. I could find no stone today, it could be one of the unknown stones or marker. |
| Haven | Bennie Ray | August 6, 1924 | February 20, 1975 | Dbl with Beatrice Haven photo |
| Haven | Beatrice | January 5, 1932 | no date | Dbl with Bennie Ray Haven photo |
| Holloway | Baby Boy | no date | 1913 | photo |
| Hooper | Lucey | 1855 | 1943 | photo |
| Inman | Bertha | December 24, 1926 | December 28, 1993 | photo |
| Johnson | Theodosia | no date | October 1832 | Aged 11 years photo Chronicles of Oklahoma |
| Masterson | Doyle | February 3, 1902 | October 31, 1922 | Son of W.J. & Manerva Masterson photo |
| McLemore | French | September 2, 1846 | Was Killed this day; December 25, 1894 |
photo |
| McLemore | Geo. W. | September 20, 1868 | November 19, 1936 | photo |
| McLemore | John Ross | September 5, 1893 | August 27, 1898 | Son of G.W. & S. L. McLemore photo |
| McLemore | Julia | 1911 | 2006 | Grave beside Steve McLemore photo |
| McLemore | Steve Sr. | no date | no date | Grave beside Julia McLemore photo |
| McLemore | Polly | February 10, 1820 | March 21, 1883 | Wife of R. McLemore Chronical of Oklahoma states; "She professed religion in 1840." F. Daly was the man who hewed this stone. photo |
| McLemore | Robert | no date | November 8, 1889 | About 87 years photo |
| Miller | Sallie | no date | no date | photo |
| Newman | Leonard David | March 7, 1935 | October 30, 1959 | "US ARMY KOREA". photo |
| Nofire | Lydia Scraper | July 18, 1934 | December 2, 1994 | "Beloved Mother" photo |
| Pettit | Andrew T. | September 24, 1848 | November 15, 1872 | photo |
| Pettit | Mr. William | no date | January 13, 1852 | Age 51 photo |
| Pettit | Willie | February 20, 1870 | March 23, 1871 | son of W. & L. Pettit photo |
| Ross | Andrew | December 19, 1798 | Killed this day; November 29, 1840 |
"Signer of the 1835 New Echota Treaty". photo |
| Sanders | C ? (can't read) | 1930 | can't read | photo |
| Sanders | Charles T. | May 9, 1847 | February 1, 1882 | photo |
| Sanders | David | no date | December 25, 1855 | Aged 40 years photo |
| Sanders | Elena O. | February 19, 1880 | May 12, 1881 | Daughter of Com??? Sanders (stone broken) photo |
| Sanders | Ellie | no date | August 1883 | Daughter of F. Sanders Age 1 Yr & 11 Mo. photo |
| Sanders | Esther | May 5, 1905 | August 13, 1973 | photo |
| Sanders | Gene Edward | January 10, 1946 | August 29, 2002 | "In Loving Memory". photo |
| Sanders | Grover | 1938 | 2004 | "In Memory of my Dad". photo |
| Sanders | Joe J. | no date | August 5, 1855 | photo |
| Sanders | Lynch | no date | no date | photo |
| Sanders | Mace | March 7, 1933 | November 28, 1984 | photo |
| Sanders | Slick | September 6, 1895 | March 19, 1973 | photo |
| Sanders | Tom | 1926 | 2003 | photo |
| Scraper | Bert French | July 17, 1931 | November 12, 1987 | photo |
| Scraper | Dick | 1876 | August 7, 1911 | photo |
| Scraper | Fields | November 1860 | August 11, 1927 | photo |
| Scraper | French | August 3, 1907 | September 8, 1975 | photo |
| Scraper | Jennie Beaver | May 6, 1907 | October 16, 1980 | photo |
| Scraper | Jesse | August 8, 1891 | April 21, 1948 | "OKLAHOMA PVT 331 FLD ARTY BN 86 DIV WORLD WAR I". photo |
| Scraper | John | September 7, 1895 | May 15, 1972 | "OKLAHOMA PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR I". photo |
| Scraper | Lucy | July 1869 | March 23, 1947 | photo |
| Scraper | Mary Jane | April 6, 1901 | September 19, 1972 | photo |
| Scraper | Robert | February 15, 1904 | December 8, 1988 | photo |
| Simmons | Anawake Scraper | December 7, 1897 | May 25, 1972 | W/O John Simmons photo |
| Simmons | Hoover | June 18, 1932 | December 26, 2006 | S/O John and Anawake Simmons; Unmarked grave beside his mother, Anawake photo obit |
| Simmons | John | September 27, 1878 | April 7, 1981 | H/O Anawake Scraper Simmons photo |
| Stahl | Ella Mae Sanders | May 5, 1924 | August 28, 1997 | photo |
| Turtle | Charley | September 24, 1894 | January 1, 1968 | photo |
| Turtle | Rebecca | June 8, 1884 | November 1982 | photo |
| Unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Head and foot field rock marker on the north side of Theadocia Johnson and Rev. S. Aldrich photo |
| Unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Black funeral home marker beside field rock. photo |
| Unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | photo |
| Unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Field stone between John & Jess Scraper photo |
| Unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Field stone one row to the east of the stone between John & Jess Scraper photo |
| Unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Field stone to mark grave photo |
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