Keel Cemetery - Marshall County, OK
N 34° 02.011 W 096° 54.424
14S E 693218 N 3767847
Keel Cemetery is a small, active family cemetery with nearly 200 burials, located about six miles north of Lebanon in rural Marshall County, OK.
Waymark Code: WM12F3R
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/13/2020
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Findagrave says "Madill", but Lebanon is much closer. The cemetery has notable names from area families, such as Keel, McMillan, and Pickens.
Edmund Pickens was a Chief of the Chickasaw Nation, who traveled the Trail of Tears from Mississippi. You won't find him here, as he and some of his family members are buried on a piece of land that is now an island in Lake Texoma to the south of here, their property having been flooded when the lake was created in 1944. In 2003, though, the headstones in that family burial ground were relocated to this cemetery, and there isn't any documentation online to clarify which headstones are cenotaphs and which actually mark graves. These older stones can be found along the northwest corner of the cemetery. One that is definitely a cenotaph is for Johnson Pickens, Edmund's son, who was killed in battle against the Comanche in 1858, and there are headstones for his brother, Thompson, and his family. Related to both the Keel and Pickens families, Juanita Jeanette Keel Tate was a great-granddaughter of Edmund Pickens. An artist and historian, she was a mover and shaker in the Chickasaw Nation, and she lived to be 101.