Parris Cemetery
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Parris Cemetery

Also known as Downing Family Cemetery

Adair County, Oklahoma, USA

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    Coordinates: 36.03275, -94.54736
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The Parris Cemetery is located in Section 16, Township 18N, Range 26E. It is approximately four miles northeast of the town of Westville in Adair County, Oklahoma. In 1937, a field worker with the Works Progress Administration surveyed the Parris Cemetery. He stated that the cemetery contained approximately twenty-five graves, of which only ten were marked. His report stated the following. "The information concerning this cemetery was given by Mrs. Jennie Hinds, a granddaughter of Malica Parris. This cemetery, according to family history was started by old settler Cherokees about 1830. The land was claimed by Bob Parris at that time. Bob was a full-blood Cherokee. Bob had a boy named Malica. He remained in the Cherokee country only a year. Malica went back to Georgia. He remained there until 1837. He came back with the immigrants. In the meantime he had married Mahaley Lallis, a German woman. Bob Parris died before the Civil War about 1841. Malica, his son, claimed his old home. Malica lived on the place until the Civil War. He was killed about a mile east of this place. At allotment Myrtle Redden allotted the land. Myrtle sold to Charley Gilbreadth who now owns the place."

The Parris Cemetery is located in Section 16, Township 18N, Range 26E. It is approximately four miles northeast of the town of Westville in Adair County, Oklahoma. In 1937, a field worker with the Works Progress Administration surveyed the Parris Cemetery. He stated that the cemetery contained approximately twenty-five graves, of which only ten were marked. His report stated the following. "The information concerning this cemetery was given by Mrs. Jennie Hinds, a granddaughter of Malica Parris. This cemetery, according to family history was started by old settler Cherokees about 1830. The land was claimed by Bob Parris at that time. Bob was a full-blood Cherokee. Bob had a boy named Malica. He remained in the Cherokee country only a year. Malica went back to Georgia. He remained there until 1837. He came back with the immigrants. In the meantime he had married Mahaley Lallis, a German woman. Bob Parris died before the Civil War about 1841. Malica, his son, claimed his old home. Malica lived on the place until the Civil War. He was killed about a mile east of this place. At allotment Myrtle Redden allotted the land. Myrtle sold to Charley Gilbreadth who now owns the place."

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