Kiowa Cemetery Information

Submitted & © by: Leila Evett

Transcribed by: Mollie Stehno

LOCATION; The Kiowa Cemetery is located three miles south and three miles west of Hammon, Oklahoma on the southeast corner of Section 21, Township 13 North, Range 21 West of the Indian Meridian, Roger Mills County on the George and Nancy LACEY homestead.

NAME: The community as well as the cemetery was named for the Big and Little Kiowa creeks that flow on either side of the cemetery location. The cemetery has always been known as the Kiowa Cemetery, however, there was a brief period of time (1902-1906) when the community was known as Larned because of a post office by that name located just across the road from the cemetery in Section 28. A news item in the Hammon Advocate February 1915 reports that Frank Luttrell was in town Wednesday and said he was closing his store at Larned.

HISTORY: The idea of designating this corner of his homestead as a cemetery may have been in George Lacey's mind for sometime before it became a reality. There was no cemetery in the community. Many of the homesteaders were accompanied by suffering from Tommy HILL (son told his son Ed an aging parent and George, himself, was in very poor health cancer. However, it was on 17 March 1899 the day little of Elbert R. "Froggie" and Emma HILL) died, that George to go to the Hill residence and tell them he was setting aside the southeast corner of his homestead for a community cemetery.

That same year, 1899, four people were interred in the cemetery-all being fairly young in years:

Tommy HILL one month
George LACEY 45 years
Cal ROWLAND 38 years, and
Charley Eakins 25 years.

The 1900 and 1910 federal censuses show residents of the Kiowa Com-munity born in the following locale:

States of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, New York, and Virginia
Territories of Arizona and New Mexico Foreign countries: Ireland and Bohemia

The Kiowa school house always served as community building and as a meeting place for the various churches. In 1898 the Baptist Church was organized with charter members from the EAKINS, McREYNOLDS, and LACEYfamilies. The Methodist Church was organized soon thereafter. Over the years churches of all denominations were invited and welcomed to the community. The Kiowa Cemetery accommodated any and all denominations. was given as a free (and still is) cemetery with each family choosing a location so long as they did not infringe upon previous burials.

There was one thing all homesteaders had in common--they were pioneers of pioneer parentage. With many, it was several generations of looking for their last stand. With many as attested here, it was their last stand. Today many of the pioneer families have descendants still living in the area here for burial. Other families having moved away desire to be returned Persons buried here who were born 1850 or earlier:

Most of these people had lived in Texas prior to coming to Oklahoma Territory. The cemetery is currently being maintained under a trust fund. Copies of which follow.

THE PERPETUAL CARE TRUST FOR KIOWA CEMETERY

Know all men by these presents:

That we the undersigned, all of whom are relatives of persons interred in a certain cemetery located in Roger Mills County, State of Oklahoma, have this day voluntarily associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a trust under the laws of the State of Oklahoma

The name of this trust shall be, KIOWA CEMETERY. THE PERPETUAL CARE TRUST FOR

That the purpose for which this trust is formed and the nature of the operation or objects or purposes proposed to be carried out is to perpetually provide a fund for the maintaining and care of the Kiowa Cemetery located in the SE corner of Sec. 21, T l3N, R 21 WIM, Roger Mills County, State of Oklahoma.

That the trust shall have one trustee. The trustee of said trust shall be appointed by the District Court of Roger Mills County, State of Oklahoma. That in the event that the death of the trustee or the resignation of said trustee then and in that event, the District Court of Roger Mills County, State of Oklahoma shall appoint a successor trustee. No trustee shall receive any compensation for his service as said trustee for this trust but, may, out of the income received, pay all proper items of expense incurred in the performance of his duties including the cost of a bond if any.

The trustee shall accept gifts, donations, and bequests to be used to carry out the purpose of the trust and for no other purpose.

The care provided for under this trust shall be furnished only in so far as the net income derived from the investment of said funds re-ceived will permit. The funds received by the trust shall be invested in real estate loans secured by first mortgage on the real estate which have been approved by the District Court of Roger Mills County, State of Oklahoma and in deficiency warrants of the State of Oklahoma, state bonds of the State of Oklahoma, and in Federal Bank and Savings and Loan Associations passbook savings accounts, Certificates of Deposits, Money Market Certificates up to the amount insured by the Federal Government.

The sums paid into or contributed to this trust are expressly authorized for a charitable eleemosynary purpose. Such sums discharged a duty due from the persons contributing to the person or persons interred or to be interred in this cemetery and likewise are for the benefit and protection of the public in that the cemetery is preserved and beautified and prevented from becoming a place of reproach and desolation in the community.

The trustee of this trust shall on or before the 10th day of January and on or before the 10th day of July of each year following his appointment and on the 10th day of January and the 10th day of July of each succeeding year make a full report to the District Court of Roger Mills County, State of Oklahoma of his doings in the matter of his trustee- ship. In each of the reports he shall apportion the net proceeds received from the sum total of the permanent fund and make a proper credit to each of the separate funds assigned to him in trust. This report shall contain a true and correct statement of the funds received, together with the kind of investments made of such funds and the expenditures of the income of said investments of said funds for the period of his trusteeship.

Dorothy F. Griffen
Elisabeth Luttrell
Leila F. Evett
Audie Luttrell
Steve Evett
R. D. Burrows
Freddie H. Lacey
Esther A. Burrows
Vonnel Lacey
Dalton G. Burrows
LaVada (Lacey) Alongi
Carolyn S. Burrows
May Zelle Brothers
Larry D. Burro
Timothy R. Brothers
Mira L. Burrows
Will R. Brothers
Maude Hibler
S. C. Spitzer
Sarah A. Brothers
Bessie Spitzer
Chester Mathews
Derrall Luttrell
Lena Ford
Linda K. Page

Nov 10 1981

E. CAMPBELL
Court Clerk Roger Mills

DISTRICT COURT WITHIN AND FOR ROGER MILLS COUNTY

STATE OF OKLAHOMA

IN THE MATTER OF APPOINTING A
TRUSTEE FOR PERPETUAL CARE FUND No.1
FOR KIOWA CEMETERY

ORDER APPOINTING TRUSTEE

This matter comes on for hearing upon the application of the lot owners of Kiowa Cemetery located in Roger Mills County, State of Oklahoma for the Court to appoint a trustee of the trust known as THE PERPETUAL CARE TRUST FOR KIOWA CEMETERY.

The Court after hearing the testimony of witnesses sworn in open court, argument of counsel and after examining the file, finds that the Court should appoint a trustee for said trust.

It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed that LEILA F. EVETTbe and is hereby appointed Trustee of the Perpetual Care Trust for Kiowa Cemetery. The said trustee shall receive donations, deposits, and bequests for said trust and shall administer the trust under the Statutes of the State of Oklahoma made and provided therefore.

It is further ordered that the Trustee shall report to the Court on or before the 10th day of January and the 10th day of July each year after his appointment. In said report, the Trustee shall account for all funds received for said trust and all expenditures made from said funds and show the investment of said funds.

It is further ordered that said Trustee shall provide a bond in the sum of NONE dollars for his faithful performance of his duties.

Dated this 10th day of November, 1981.

s/ K. C. PERRYMAN Judge

I, Donald E. Campbell, Court Clerk for Roger Mills County, Oklahoma hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, correct and complete copy of the instrument herewith set out as appears of record in the Court Clerk's Office of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma this 10 day of November 1981

s/ DONALD E. CAMPBELL
Court Clerk

By: Geneece COOK, Deputy

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