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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.
Joe Star, a Civil War veteran buried in 1878, is reported to occupy the oldest known grave in Oaklawn. However, there is no existing Star headstone. A large section of the Oaklawn cemetery known as “Potters’ Field” was set aside for the city’s poor and generally has very few headstones.
Find 6512 memorial records at the Oaklawn Cemetery cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Add a memorial, flowers or photo.
Archaeological researchers have uncovered a possible mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery, Tulsa’s oldest graveyard. It could finally reveal how many people were killed in the infamous 1921 attack...
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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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Over 50,000 photographs and archival materials are currently available online with more added regularly. To view approximately 24,000 images from the Beryl Ford Collection* housed on the library’s website, click here. *In 2004 the Rotary Club of Tulsa purchased the Beryl Ford Collection.