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This place has been known for years as the Boudinot Cemetery, but in reality it was founded by the original owner, John BREWER about 1840. In later years this property was owned by a man by the name of DAMBACH, pronounced "Dumbaw", who was a German. In 1869 Wm. Penn BOUDINOT traded a place that he had improved on Big Greenleaf Creek to Mr. Dambach for the Brewer place upon which this burial ground is situated. Mr. Boudinot retained this property and made it his home until 1883, when with his family he moved to Tahlequah. The original Brewer burial plot is about fifty feet square with native stone wall inclosure about four feet high.

There are twelve graves inside the inclosure. This burial plot is located about one hundred fifty yards east of No. 10 highway, three miles north of Braggs and is visible from the highway. About one hundred yards south of the burial ground can be found the remains of the foundation, basement and fireplace of the Old Brewer, or Boudinot home. 

I was informed by Mrs. Elinor MEIGS, daughter of William Penn Boudinot, that when she was a very little girl, she was present and listened to the conversation between her father and Mr. Dambach when her father traded places with Dambach and came in to possession of the Brewer property in 1869.


The tomb of Thomas F. Brewer is beautiful. It was constructed from native stone by a stone mason by the name of POTTS.

Submitted to OKGenWeb by Gay Wall, February 2000.