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001    KNOLES CEMETERY

Location - on Franklin Rd, 0.1 mile west of Harrah-Newalla Rd, Little Axe.

Coordinates: 35d 16m 32.2s N; 97d 09m 37.0s W Click here for Online Maps

Survey by Allen Dew in February 2014. Photographs by Sheryl Lord in 2014.

Knoles Cemetery is a 1 acre cemetery, established around 1889. It was first known as Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. The first documented grave is July of 1890. Irvin Farnworth and Horace Flint started a Seventh Day Baptist/Adventist Church and School attached to the cemetery in 1894. The town center of Linden was one mile to the north. In 1917 the cemetery was renamed Knoles after Martin VanBuren Knoles who patented the 160 acres in 1903 that by accident contained the cemetery, school, church and town center of Linden. The school, church and cemetery were purchased back from him by District #65 School. There are 209 graves in this cemetery with 8 real tombstones. The cemetery was neglected for over 40 years and destroyed. Many tombstones are now missing. In 2011 ground radar identified 209 graves. Knoles Cemetery Restoration Project is trying to restore this cemetery. An attempt is being made to identify the names of those buried in the unmarked graves. Concrete blocks have been set at those without real tombstones.

1. Alls, Alexander "Clarence"   (b. 1893 - d. 20 Jun 1895)
#8
2. Alls, Child   (b. Unknown - d. Oct 1901)
#9. Son of Alex Alls
3. Alls, Mable   (b. Oct 1892 - d. 1900)
#5. Daughter of John Alls and Zeralda Asher Alls. Sister of Sarah Alls and Alexander Alls.
4. Crouch, Armitia Asher (Mrs.)   (b. 18 Feb 1838 - d. 25 Feb 1900)
5. Davis, James Madison   (b. Jan 1814 - d. Unknown)
6. Davis, Mary Jane Gregory (Mrs.)   (b. 25 Dec 1817 - d. Bef Jun 1900)
Wife of James Madison Davis. Mother of Lena Davis Knoles.
7. Dickinson, David S.   (b. Nov 1845 - d. 1900)
8. Dickinson, Floyd   (b. 1901 - d. 196?)
9. Dickinson, Hester Puckett   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
10. Dickinson, Infant   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
11. Dickinson, Thomas   (b. Aug 1829 - d. Unknown)
12. Dunbar, Infant Son   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
Son of Rolla Edwin Dunbar and Lula Belle Alls Dunbar. Died between 1905-1916. Temp. marker.
13. Farnsworth, Ermina Arvilla Flint "Minnie"   (b. 5 Jul 1866 - d. 9 Jan 1937)
#23. Wife of Irvin Elsworth Farnsworth. Married 23 May 1889 in Arkansas. Daughter of Horace Fliint and Mary Ann Millard Flint.
14. Farnsworth, Horace   (b. 4 Feb 1904 - d. 9 Feb 1909)
15. Farnsworth, Irvin Elsworth "Ervin"   (b. 1 Sep 1863 - d. 25 Jan 1907)
#24. Husband of Ermina Arvilla Flint Farnsworth. Married 23 May 1889 in Arkansas. Son of William J. Farnsworth and Cynthia Stowall Farnsworth.
16. Flint, Dorothy   (b. 1915 - d. 1915)
#20. Died 3 days old.
17. Flint, Horace R.   (b. 15 Apr 1842 - d. 30 Jan 1907)
2nd Husband of Mary Ann Millard Flint. Co. K, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, Civil War. Flint Boys of Treadway Rifles.
18. Flint, John J.   (b. 1907 - d. Unknown)
19. Flint, Luther James Arthur   (b. 21 Sep 1869 - d. 29 Apr 1937)
#21.
20. Flint, Mary Ann Millard   (b. 1843 - d. 5 Nov 1912)
#17. Wife of 1st) John A. Flint and 2nd) Horace Flint.
21. Frazey, George W.   (b. 1844 - d. 26 Jun 1896)
Co. B, 14th Iowa Infantry, Civil War.
22. Frazey, Infant   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
#21.
23. Frazey, Lillie Grace "Sillie"   (b. 10 Feb 1893 - d. 25 Feb 1893)
Daughter of George W. Frazey and Emily Newcomb Frazey. "Ten days old". Born and died in Linden, Cleveland County, OK.
24. Frazey, Samuel T.   (b. 1883 - d. Unknown)
25. Hush, John Powell   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
26. Knoles, Infant Unnamed   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
27. Knoles, Jennie Vietta   (b. 31 Apr 1898 - d. 6 Jun 1898)
Daughter of Fred S. Knoles and Sarah Elizabeth Alls Knoles.
28. Knoles, Martin Van Buren   (b. 18 Oct 1844 - d. 1 Jan 1917)
Husband of Melena Francis Davis Knoles. Tennessee, Pvt. Co. A, 152 Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Civil War. Another marker.
29. Knoles, Melena Francis Davis "Lena"   (b. Oct 1850 - d. 25 Feb 1915)
Wife of Martin Van Buren Knoles, married 18 Jan 1866 in Petersburg, Menard Co. Illinois.
30. Moore, Polly Amanda Stewart Gower   (b. 1827 - d. 15 Sep 1897)
31. Pittman, George Francis   (b. 27 Jun 1870 - d. 15 Jun 1905)
32. Powell, John H.   (b. 1853 - d. 7 Oct 1930)
33. Powell, Nellie   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
34. Rush, John Powell   (b. Bef 1936 - d. Bef 1936)
#29b.
35. Simpson, Georgia A. Reed   (b. 1862 - d. Unknown)
#2
36. Simpson, Marth Jane Cummins   (b. 14 Feb 1857 - d. 1890)
#1
37. Stout, Christopher Lee   (b. 9 Dec 1989 - d. 9 Apr 2013)
#I-47
38. Unknown, Boy   (b. 1895 - d. 1909)
39. Unknown, Boy   (b. 1898 - d. 1909)
40. Unknown, Child   (b. 27 Aug 1918 - d. 16 Feb 1921)
#33. Illegible name. Marker destroyed by the Wilsons.
41. Unknown, Infant   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
42. Unknown, Infant   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
43. Unknown, Unknown   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
#J-14
44. Unknown, Unknown   (b. Unknown - d. 1930)
45. Unknown, Unknown   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
#11
46. Unknown, Unknown   (b. Unknown - d. Unknown)
#10
47. Wilson, Anna   (b. 1848 - d. 1893)
48. Wilson, William Presley   (b. May 1846 - d. 31 May 1909)