Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Old Ponca Burying Grounds

Info. submitted by: Paul Dean

The location of the Old Ponca Burying Grounds - E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 30 T29N R24E

There were at least 4 Chiefs buried there. It is located on what used to be called "Ponca Hill"

newspsper tidbit: Miami_News_Record_1938_05_15_10 | Dawson helped to round them (longhorns) up. The shipping point was "Southern Pens", located near Ponca hill, northeast of Lincolnville. Slow moving freight trains hauled them off - to Kansas City, Chicago, the Cherokee nation and some back to texas.

newspsper tidbit: Miami_News_Record_1959_06_28_9 | In the 360 acre field north of Ponca hill - where once a company of soldiers was stationed to guard the Quapaw lands from intruders and where McGuirk now lives -the hay crew,....

newspsper tidbit: ...Early residents of the area recall seeing the Ponca "square" graves with little houses built over them. They were square because the Poncas buried their dead sitting up. ...

Melissa Abrams widow of A W Abrams homestead | ponca burying ground

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