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Chilocco Indian School Cemetery,Kay County, Oklahoma, USA

Chilocco Indian School Cemetery,Kay County, Oklahoma, USA:

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Located three quarters of a mile south of the Chilocco Indian School complex, which is eight miles north of Newkirk in Kay County, Oklahoma. There were around 100 graves there as reported by the Tulsa World, mostly small native stones. Only one upright and inscribed stone remained at that time. The first burial was said to have been in 1884 and the last burial in 1923.

The school had been open for almost a century when it was closed on June 15, 1980. There was an article in the Tulsa World entitled "Cemetery Returning to Prairie Silence," on May 22, 1980 by Brian Coyne.

Reported in the book from the American Indian Institute; "Our People And Where They Rest," James W. Tyner, Maxine Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, American Indian Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1982 (Library of Congress No. QE99-C5-T97) Volume 11, p. 54. Their information is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogical information, this is merely a "source" and should be considered as such. It falls upon the end-user to verify the accuracy.

Tyner related that he had gone to school there, class of 1930.