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History of Pine Spur Cemetery

Pushmataha County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Brenda Franklin


This is the history of the cemetery as related to me, by my Dad's cousin, Whick.
The cemetery started back in the late 1800's, while the rail road was being built.
As he told...there was a hobo that had put a plank of wood through the truss rods of the train car, and the train jumped track, this poor unidentified man was killed. Some of the rail workers, and people living there at the time wrapped his body in a sheet, put the remains in a hickory basket and buried him there. His grave is marked with an out line of stones, some of the stones are painted white. He said as time went on, several other people that died on the rail road, and some people passing through that died were buried there in that location. There are three stones in an old fenced area. Belonging to the Hamby family.
Whick states he purchased the land many years ago from the county for the back taxes owed on the track of land, and decided to set aside one acre for a community cemetery.


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