{"id":661,"date":"2012-05-28T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=661"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:51:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:51:57","slug":"our-world-tulsas-perryman-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Our World – Tulsa’s Perryman Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perryman Cemetery<\/a> at 32nd and Utica is Tulsa’s oldest private cemetery. It was laid out in 1848 by the Perryman family. The Perrymans were mixed blood Creek Indians and held positions of leadership in the Creek Tribe and early day Oklahoma. The Chronicles of Oklahoma<\/a> has an interesting article from 1937 about the History of the family.<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Perryman led his family to Oklahoma from Georgia in 1828. He was a chief of the Creek tribe<\/a> and   the noted early western painter George Catlin<\/a> painted his portrait.<\/p>\n

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The cemetery was a family plot and there are lots of Perryman names on the gravestones. The last burial in the cemetery was in 1941. The Tulsa Historical Society<\/a> has owned and maintained the cemetery since 1971. <\/p>\n

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Only about 50 people are buried on the property. Apparently the graveyard was originally bigger than the present fenced area. The speculation is that there are bodies buried in the yards of some of the nearby residences.<\/p>\n

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Very interesting to me is the grave house over one of the graves. It is only about a two feet tall. I’ve seen many similar structures in eastern Oklahoma at very old cemeteries. I wish I could tell you that I have definitively determined why some graves have them and what the significance is, but I can’t. I have not found what I consider to be a good source of information. I have read a lot of what I consider to be speculation. Some of what I read says that the houses were merely to cover the grave and keep the rain off. Other sources though indicate that the houses are houses for the grave occupant’s spirit.<\/p>\n

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In the meantime the cemetery is a nice place to go and ponder the meaning of it all. More information can be found in an interesting post from the Forgotten Tulsa<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

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