Fodder Cemetery
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Fodder Cemetery

Westville, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA

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This cemetery is located in the NE4,SE4, NW4 of Section 2, Township 16N, Range 25E. It is located off Highway 62 approximately one and three-quarters of a mile west of Westville in Adair County, Oklahoma. In 1938, Gus Hummingbird and W.J.B. Bigby surveyed this cemetery through their work with the Works Progress Administration. They recorded the existence of approximately forty graves in this cemetery, none of which contained tombstones. They noted Che-We-Ski Fodder as the founder of the cemetery, which occurred about the year 1840. They stated, "This cemetery according to Mrs. Stephen Dell, who has relatives buried at this place, as she was told by her father, was there when they came in 1838. The Fodder family came in the third drive or bunch of immigrants [Cherokees]. Probably some old settler Cherokees were buried here before they came. Just two years after the coming of the Fodder family, a child died and was buried there. This place was used from there on as a family cemetery. We are reporting this cemetery because we feel that there are some important men buried at this place. Mr. Fodder was a great church worker and a leader among his people in this part of the Cherokee Nation. Watt Whitmore is also buried at this place; he was an early day statesman. There are about forty graves. There are also two early day Cherokee preachers buried here."

Source: Gus Hummingbird and W.J.B. Bigby, January 13, 1938. History of Fodder Cemetery, Indian-Pioneer Papers, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Submitted to Find A Grave by Luke Williams.




This cemetery is located in the NE4,SE4, NW4 of Section 2, Township 16N, Range 25E. It is located off Highway 62 approximately one and three-quarters of a mile west of Westville in Adair County, Oklahoma. In 1938, Gus Hummingbird and W.J.B. Bigby surveyed this cemetery through their work with the Works Progress Administration. They recorded the existence of approximately forty graves in this cemetery, none of which contained tombstones. They noted Che-We-Ski Fodder as the founder of the cemetery, which occurred about the year 1840. They stated, "This cemetery according to Mrs. Stephen Dell, who has relatives buried at this place, as she was told by her father, was there when they came in 1838. The Fodder family came in the third drive or bunch of immigrants [Cherokees]. Probably some old settler Cherokees were buried here before they came. Just two years after the coming of the Fodder family, a child died and was buried there. This place was used from there on as a family cemetery. We are reporting this cemetery because we feel that there are some important men buried at this place. Mr. Fodder was a great church worker and a leader among his people in this part of the Cherokee Nation. Watt Whitmore is also buried at this place; he was an early day statesman. There are about forty graves. There are also two early day Cherokee preachers buried here."

Source: Gus Hummingbird and W.J.B. Bigby, January 13, 1938. History of Fodder Cemetery, Indian-Pioneer Papers, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Submitted to Find A Grave by Luke Williams.




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