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

First off, anyone can put anything they want on findagrave.com with out any proof. I looked around at a few places and the only site I could find that had a cemetery for Cherokee was
http://www.okcemeteries.net/alfalfa/cherokee/cherokeem.htm
It's called Cherokee Municpal by them.
I have an atlas "The Roads of Oklahoma" In it cemeteries are marked with a symbol. There is one near Cherokee that is not on the USGS index. If you go 1 mile south of town and 1-1/2 miles east. It's on the north side of the road.

Before anyone asks, the book I mentioned is no longer in print. The company that published it sold it's atlas book line to the same company that publishes the Delorme Atlas & Gazetteer. I have one of the Delorme atlases and it doesn't mark cemeteries and the detail is nowhere close to being as good. I think they bought them out just to kill the competition.

I tried mapquest and I found it. It's where I said it might be in the previous message.
http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&a...
It's labeled on the map.

Try this one, forgot to change the coordiantes
http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&a...

Thank you so much for all your time and help. The links you sent, especially the one that took me directly to that cemetery's listing (http://www.okcemeteries.net/alfalfa/cherokee/cherokeem.htm)
was the proof I needed along with an idea I had to go with it.

It's not that anyone can post at Find A Grave (I've been busy doing that for the past several days), but that the same cemetery is listed with two different names, and with the details for each that I enumerated in my first query.

So now I'm waiting for Find A Grave to merge the two cemeteries into one with the correct name. Only then will I post my uncle (a WW I veteran) & his two wives.

Again, thank you so much for all your time.

I'm pretty sure they are the same cemetery. I've emailed the keeper of the webpage at okcemeteries.net to see what she thinks. I see that some of the names from her website are on both the findagrave lists.

Hmmmm! How interesting. I hadn't thought to look at the actual names on the one, then compared to the other one. Anyway, I think we've proven that they are one and the same and it's up to Find A Grave now to merge them and list only the one with the correct name. We'll see how that goes this next week. Thanks again.

Cherokee, Alfalfa County Oklahoma cemetery is located one and half miles east of Cherokee, Ok.
There is only one name for the cemetery. Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. There is a portion of the cemetery for Catholic burials. I have a index of burials both Sir name and given name and the Alfalfa County Oklahoma Cemetery book. this book was published in 1993. Our library has obits from about 1998. The Libray does not do look-ups.
I have not read any of the other respones so don't know what information you have gotten.
I am always glad to help anyone with lookups.
Marty Myers Alfalfa County Coordinator Ok gen web.

Thank you so much, Marty. And "Municipal" it is. I was sure it was but wanted to double-double-check before bringing the problem up to Find A Grave for them to fix the two separate listings by combining them into the correct name. I'm adament about details, I guess because my name is so uncommon.