Sidney Blankenship - Union Cemetery - Earlsboro, OK
Posted by: hamquilter
N 35° 13.885 W 096° 47.951
14S E 700277 N 3900926
A single Woodmen of the World tree stump stands in this very old cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMNYAD
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/23/2015
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Union Cemetery, located on County Road 1230, two miles south of Earlsboro, is an old cemetery, not currently being maintained. The most recent burial noted was in the late 1940's.
This WOW marker is a traditional tree stump standing on four horizontal logs. The inscription is engraved on a scroll and reads:
Sidney
Blankenship
Born
Feb. 6, 1866
Linn Creek, MO
Died
Jan. 27, 1913
Shawnee, OKA truer nobler
heart never beat
within a human
breast