My records have the name of the rather large cemetery in Cherokee as the "Cherokee Municipal Cemetery" which is (as I remember) the way it is identified in the cemetery transcription book published (date?) by (who?) which I have looked at but didn't photocopy any page.

Those of you familiar with the Find A Grave site online will find TWO listings for a cemetery at Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma -- Cherokee Memorial Cemetery, and Cherokee Municipal Cemetery.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScn=c...

The "Memorial" cemetery currently has 211 listings and a photograph of the entrance on the main page.

The "Municipal" cemetery has 10 listings and no photograph of the entrance.

So I checked the U.S.G.S. website and called up all cemeteries listed in Alfalfa Co., OK, and was shocked to discover that NO cemetery by any name is registered by them at Cherokee, and I know for a fact that this is not a small country cemetery by any definition.

Before I bring up this subject to the Find A Grave people to ask them to merge the two cemeteries into one, I thought I should first ask the question here to be sure of the correct name and for clarification. It always complicates things when an entity has an "official" name but is popularly referred to by another name as is probably the case here.

I'm posting this to the RootsWeb Message Board for Alfalfa County which will also go out to the Alfalfa County e-mail list that I'm not subscribed to so please, please respond privately or on this Message Board.

Anxiously awaiting a knowledgeable response so I can alert the Find A Grave people, then create pages for my uncle and his two wives at Find A Grave