Shirley Cemetery
aka Pitchlynn Fields Cemetery

Garvin County, Oklahoma

Survey from information submitted by Bob Curry

DIRECTIONS - This private cemetery is located about one mile west of the old refinery in Wynnewood, OK.

Mr. John T. Pitchlynn owned about 650.8 acres at this location. On an old survey map from 1870, this parcel of land was known as the Pitchlynn fields. (Section 22, township 2N and Range 1 E; Section 22, overlapping into section 16 N and 28 S). Today, the Shirley family controls and owns this area of Garvin county.

John T. Pitchlynn, a Chickasaw, was the son of Senator Thomas Jefferson Pitchlynn and Mary Susan Allen (a Chickasaw), and the nephew of Choctaw Chief Peter Perkins Pitchlynn. John T's third wife was Lavina Colbert, a Chickasaw, the daughter of Hoseph Colvert of the Chickasaw Nation. After the death of John T., Lavina Colbert Pitchlynn married Perry Froman, a cattle rancher who settled in the area. John T. Pitchlynn's grave is one of the oldest in the county, over 133 years old.

If you have family or friends buried in this cemetery and
would like to add their names and information, please send
an e mail to Sandi Carter area coordinator.

LAST NAME	FIRST MI	BORN	DIED	COMMENTS
FROMAN	Lavina	1845	25/Jul/1903	Aed 58 Years Marker?
PITCHLYNN	John T.	22/Mar/1834	08/Jan/1873	Marker?
PITCHLYNN	Joseph	27/Sep/1869	11/Jun/1874	Son of John & Lavina Pitchlynn Marker?
PITCHLYNN	J. Henry "J. H."	18/Jun/1872	23/Aug/1879	Son of John & Lavina Pitchlynn Marker?
>PITCHLYNN	William B. "W.II B."	22/Apr/1868	23/Jan/1886	Son of John & Lavina Pitchlynn Marker?