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Submitted: 8/9/14 • Approved: 8/12/14 • Last Updated: 4/17/18 • R32007-G0-S3
Located about three miles from the town of Tom, Oklahoma.
The location is near where the plantation home of Chief Samuel Garland once stood.
There are about fifteen or sixteen graves in the old Garland cemetery.
It is enclosed by a wrought iron fence.
This cemetery site has been deeded to the State of Oklahoma for the use and benefit of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
"Small cemetery nearby contains the graves of Choctaw Chief Samuel Garland, and family members, including his mother in law, Sophia Pitchlynn, Peter Pitchlynn, son Sophia and John Pitchlynn.
Garland migrated from Mississippi during the Choctaw removal in the 1830s.
Garland opened and operated a large plantation in the vicinity with black slave labor.
The cemetery is the only remaining evidence of Garland's occupation.
The headstone of Sophia Pitchlynn bears the birth date of December 27,1773.
Believed to be earliest in Oklahoma."
Contributed on 8/9/14 by MryAl8
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