The Chief Sapulpa Cemetery, which the Nancy Green Chapter purchased in 1923, is the burial site of Sapulpa (c.1824-March 17, 1887), the man for whom the city of Sapulpa, OK, is named.
The cemetery, 30-feet x 50-feet, includes seven members of the Sapulpa family. Sapulpa was a full-blood Lower Creek Native American and leader of the Kashita tribe of Alabama. The area's first permanent settler, Sapulpa arrived ca.1850 and established a trading post 2 miles SE of current downtown Sapulpa. A lieutenant with the Confederate Army, Sapulpa area settlers gave him the honorific of "Chief." The town of Sapulpa was incorporated on March 31, 1898. The chapter dedicated a DAR marker at the cemetery in 1924 and in 1977.
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• Chief Sapulpa, Died: March 17, 1887
• Eliza-Na Kitty, first wife of Sapulpa (unmarked grave)
• Niesi, daughter of Sapulpa, Died August 6, 187?
• Rebecca, daughter of Sapulpa, Died: August 1, 1879
• Lucy, daughter of Sapulpa, Died: February 16, 1900
• Bessie Brunner, granddaughter of Sapulpa, Died: September 11, 1888
• granddaughter of Sapulpa; Infant, Born/Died: March 29, 1905
• grandson of Sapulpa; Aggie Jones, Died: March 1, 1900
• orphan at Euchee Mission Boarding School, Sapulpa
• Velma James, student at Euchee Mission Boarding School
• Unknown child from the Euchee Mission Boarding School who died during the measles epidemic of 1900.
The original DAR marker is a large bronze Golden Wheel emblem on a marble square encased in a concrete block. Originally located on the concrete slab covering the burial site of Chief Sapulpa with the year 1927 etched into the front of the concrete block. In 1977, the Betty Green Chapter rededicated the cemetery with an engraved marker and a new large Golden Wheel emblem and a new Flag and flagpole. The original Golden Wheel emblem was moved to the concrete base for the flagpole.