The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-17
REMOVE MANY
INDIAN GRAVES
old Creek Family Burial
Ground Gives Way to
March of City
ATOP LONELY KNOLL
Present Owner of Property to
Place Bodies in Plot at
Oaklawn Cemetery

In tho latter part OF the nineteenth
csntury when Tulsa was a tiny In
alan outpost, a Creek bravo was laid
N rest to a murmurous Creek burial
ceremony in the heart OF a pleasant
wood beyond the present Sunset ad-
Sltjon and with tho waxing and
waning of many moons he WIS
,olned by other red men, blood-kin
All who had been called to the
happy hunting grounds.
For 80 years that first brave OF
the family Of Tuckabache and, after
him, others have slept serenely un-
mindful of bustling palefaco ambi-
lion near at hand. But their little
priya,e burial ground has COTTON in
ihe path Of Tulsa progress, as rep
resented in .the person of M. II
Travis, who plans an exclusive resi-
dental section for the surrounding
acreage. and on Monday, December
2e, their mouldering bones will be
transferred to Oakland cemetery.
The trip to the final resting place
will be made In motor-drawn ve-
hicles foreign 10 tho experience of
some OF the Indians while on earth.
When Travis purchased the Tuck
abache allotment of 1870 acres south
Of Sunset park. he did not know OF
the existence OF the Indian cemetery
and only discovered 1t by accident
some time later. Realizing that the
cemetery would interfere with his
plan OF plating the acreage for resi-
dence building lots and opening 10
@ an addition next spring, he Sc
cured the consent Of surviving rela-
tlves Of the greatest Indian OF them
ali, old Tuckabache, and made ar
rangenents for the remov~-.
Buried on Lonely Knoll.
To reach the cemetery one must
20 inland a mile and fight ones way
through waist high grasses, shaggy
undergrowth and clutching vines OF
a lonely. wind-swept knoll where six
white shafts rise spectrally. There
are no headstones to denote the
places where lie II other Creeks,
and In fact little other indication of
their graves.
Highest Of all stands the monu-
ment OF Tucka bache. born about
the year 1915. died on the 21st day
Of March. 1910. After life's fitful
fever as a soldier and tribesman he
rests In peace.r Tuckabache was a
fullblood Creek whom tradition
says was 100 years old at his
death. He was in this country IN
the memory of our earliest pioneers.
David Beaver. 81 North Victor, also
a tullblood Creed, was little boy
when he saw Tuchabache first. The
old Indian never learned to speak
English and in his later years kept
closely TO his government allotment,
upon which were raised small crops
sufficient for his needs. Beaver re-
called last night Tuckabache's re-
fusal to give the Midland Valley
railroad any more right of way on
his land and his dislike of automo-
biles.
Last OF Generation.
He saw a number of his relatives
called to the beyond and had them
buried in the plot a 100 yards or SO
from his dooryard. His own son
Sunday Tuchabache, whom Mrs. j
", Hall at school named Ned, died
about 1905. as Indian pioneers now
recall, though there Is no tomb.
stone to mark his resting place. He
was the last OF his own family gen
Grafton His granddaughter, Jennie
Hickory, deceased, left his great.
grandchildren, now alive, Louins
Hickory. about la years old, and
WIZ AseAANAAas Aiit tetii ~ NtthG
children of Tom Hickory, The prop.
erty went to the three great-granG
children and was disposed of by
their guardian through court sale
The Tombstone OF Joe Star con
yeys the information that he fought
Tor the Union for three years II
company /, First regiment. and died
IN 1873. The other graves are more
recent that OF Lucinda, daughter oi
Thomas and Jennie Hickory, whC
was In 1899, and died In 1918; Ton
Corey, born in 1890, and died IL
1910; Mary Scott. an infant. VIII,
uled IN 1902, and Lon, daughter o
a: and \. Scott. born November II
iSss died May Q, 1900.
A block in oaklawn cemetery ha
9een secured for the Indian remains
aom Hickory will point out TO tn
unuertaking company the location
OF the unmarked graves.
the Travis property Is at presen
1elns used only for a private dairy
suS Opposite at the beginning of tn
acreage are the homes of II. X. an,
u Travis, south of Woodawr