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OKLAHOMA COUNTY OK

Waterloo Cemetery is named for the no-longer existing town site of Waterloo, 5 miles north of downtown Edmond. The original name was Brayton. There was a steep grade near the site where, according to local legend, a Santa Fe Railway engineer almost met his Waterloo. Thereafter the community was known as Waterloo. Waterloo had a post office from April 9, 1892 to June 6, 1930.

A general Warranty Deed recorded January 5, 1898 and recorded in Book 14, page 8, conveyed the site from William H. Kelly and his wife, Irene J. Kelly to the Trustees of the Waterloo Cemetery for $40.00. The three trustees were Ogilice Donaldson, S. J. Jackson, and R. W. Gill. The deed was notarized January 4, 1898, Territory of Oklahoma, Oklahoma County. The area encompasses approximately two acres. The graves of many early pioneers who settled the area can be found in the cemetery. Several of the earliest graves are those of infants, including Carrie J. Frasier, 3 months old, died November 11, 1890; E. Ellsworth Jordan, 11 months old, died January 26, 1896; Viola May Anderson, 19 days old, died February 19, 1895; Hattie Frasier, 5 months old, who died December 15, 1899; and Nellie M. Reed, a three-year-old child, died December 12, 1891.

Some other pre-1900 burials were Blanche Loranger and Elizabeth E. Chilson in 1899; Samuel B. Twyford and Robert Davis in 1898; Lina Wackwitz in 1897; Mary Fisher in 1895; Helen A. Davis and Susan A. Frasier in 1894; and Julia Moss Doxsie in 1893. Possibly the earliest was Harry Lewis Bock who died September 18, 1890. A few of the graves listed in the 1963 survey can no longer be found. At that time there were 97 surnames listed. There were about 162 graves in the year 2000, but there have been a few burials since then.

The cemetery is well maintained by the Waterloo Cemetery Association, 601 E. Oak Cliff Dr., Edmond, Oklahoma, 73034 or phone number {405} 341-2174.

{Information obtained from OK County Cemetery Index - compiled by OK County HCE Genealogy Group, page 133.}