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The Perryman Cemetery, located at 32nd and Utica, is Tulsa’s oldest private cemetery. The cemetery has approximately fifty people buried and has a small number of unmarked graves. The Perryman’s were instrumental in the foundation of Tulsa during the 19th century.
The earliest identified burial in the Perryman Cemetery took place in 1879, although the site is probably a fragment of an earlier, larger burying ground. The Cemetery is the city's oldest, continuously occupied tract of land. The last interment was in 1941.
Oaklawn Cemetery is the oldest existing cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It occupies 20 acres of ground and is bounded on the north by 8th street, on the east by Peoria Ave., on the south by 11th Street and on the west by Midland Valley Railroad right-of-way which now is part of an interdispersal highway loop.
33 cemeteries in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alice Burgess Cemetery. All Saints Parish Cemetery. All Souls Memorial Garden. Asbury Columbarium and Prayer Garden. Boston Avenue Methodist Church Columbarium. Calvary Cemetery. Christ United Methodist Church Columbarium.
Mar 26, 2011 · Once located at 2nd Street and Frisco Avenue, this cemetery was established in 1882 and contained the graves of some of Tulsa’s first white settlers, and at least one notable outlaw, a member of the Doolin and Dalton Gangs, Tulsa Jack.
Oaklawn Cemetery is the oldest existing cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It occupies 20 acres of ground and contains the graves of some of the most prominent of the early settlers. Joe Star, a Civil War veteran, occupies the oldest known grave in Oaklawn.
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