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Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: May 24, 1937
Name of burial ground: Daniel Perryman Burial Ground
Founded: Before the civil war by early settlers
Present owners: Mrs. G. W. Parker, Porter, OK  Rte 3, Box 185
Original owners: Roachie Pratt, Allotment, Creek
No. of marked graves: six with one monument
Condition of premises: neglected
Location: SW SW SE (four miles south of Redbird) Wagoner County
Section 26, Township T16N Range R16E
Field Worker: Jas S. Buchanan, Carl R. Sherwood

(Burial Ground Form Works Progress Administration Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma)
Vol. 55, pg 259-261

DANIEL PERRYMAN BURIAL GROUND

 I was informed by Philip Lewis, who accompanied and directed me to this old burial ground, that was an old burial ground when he was a small boy at home with his mother who lived about one quarter of a mile northwest of its location.  Mr. Lewis was born near that vicinity in 1870.  This burial ground was situated on what was then unoccupied territory between the claims of Daniel Perryman and Lafayette Marshall.

At the present time there is no inclosure around the plot and the land around it is cultivated, leaving the plot a space about twelve feet in width by twenty-five feet in length, grown up in briers and weeds.  Unable to make any estimate as to the number of graves there were there.  No doubt there are several graves that have been lost and plowed over in farming the surrounding land.

There is only one marker with inscriptions in the plot and that is in the form of a small monument which is of marble, a square tapering shaft about five feet high with six inscriptions on the four sides.

 Joanna Perryman b. Jan 15, 1870, d. Jan 28, 1870
 Grace L. Perryman b. May 9, 1872, d. July 13, 1874
 Phoebia Craig, d. Oct 4, 1875, age 25 years
 John Cooper, b. 1864, d 1874
 Nancy Perryman, b. 1844, d. Apr 14, 1872
 Nathaniel Perryman, b. Jan 1869, died same date

Abstracted and submitted by Sharron Ashton <Ashtonbooks@aol.com> 04-1999.

Also see Perryman Clearing House