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Wright Cemetery contains the bodies of the first settlers both white and black known to die in and around Chandler, the county seat of Lincoln County, Oklahoma. These people entered with the land rush of 1891, which opened the Kickapoo and the Sac and Fox lands to non-Indian settlement. They were all buried in Wright Cemetery (aka Chandler Cemetery) between 1891 and 1912. This book, based entirely on historical records, tells their stories. It will be accompanied by a series of poems called BELL COW BALLADS, which will offer a new Spoon River Anthology for the year 2020.
This labor of love began as one of the first major projects of the newly-formed Unicoi County Historical Society in the early 1970s. By 1973, about 35 cemeteries, all in the northern part of the county, had been copied. Fifteen years went by, and then, in the winter of 1987–1988, a new committee was formed and the project was begun again. The committee found that in 1960, 15 cemeteries, mostly in the southern part of the county, had been copied, adding up to a total of 50 cemeteries that had been recorded. Final copying began in April 1988 and was completed a little over a year later. The total of 166 copied included an update of the 50 cemeteries done earlier.
Recounting the struggles of African-American people to maintain some vestige of their African-American heritage through funeral rites and ownership of their burial grounds, these compelling stories provide background information on cemeteries in the U.S. and Canada--how and when they were founded, who is buried there and the ongoing battle to maintain possession of them. 100 photos.