Fleetwood Cemetery - Near Terral, OK
N 33° 53.656 W 097° 50.347
14S E 607340 N 3751039
A Historical Society of Fleetwood marker stands near a pasture gate at Fleetwood Cemetery. This is an abandoned cemetery, long inactive, located on N 2890 Road just south of its intersection with E 2150 Road in the ghost town of Fleetwood, OK.
Waymark Code: WMQZ4Y
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/17/2016
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This cemetery is one of three sites that make up the remains of Fleetwood, OK. Please be considerate of the rights of the property owners when visiting, and note that the cemetery, protected by a fence, is out in the middle of a pasture in a grove of trees. Don't bother the cattle -- visit the cemetery on a day when they're not hanging around by the fence -- although they might be happy to see you while you stand by the fence and look out towards where the cattle used to cross the Red River southeast of here at Red River Station during the days of the Chisholm Trail.
Findagrave (
visit link) could use some research and cleanup, as they list duplicates of several of the graves, and one possible footstone (E.M.C.) actually being identified as a headstone. The cemetery is grown over, and there are only five visible headstones, those of Houston Fleetwood, Emily Fleetwood (his wife), Ella May Coffey (their daughter), David Colbert, and Houston Colbert. Behind Mr. Fleetwood's grave marker is an old marble base that says "Fleetwood" on it, possibly his earlier headstone or one for an unidentified Fleetwood family member. If there are more grave markers, they are covered by long grass and old logs from trees that have fallen.
The marker says:
Fleetwood Cemetary [sic]
Founded about 1880 by Houston F. Fleetwood. The first settler who came here from Wynnewood, Oklahoma in 1878 as a Chickasaw Indian, he took up his Indian rights to a large area from the river east and west that included the town site.
This cemetary [sic] was in the backyard of the spacious home Fleetwood built here. He also built a trading post south of this site right in the middle of the Chisholm Trail. Later this store was moved to the present site west of here.
Fleetwood was waylaid in the river bottom in 1888 and died a few days later in his home.
Historical Society of Fleetwood
Terral Indian Territory, Okla.