This is an overlooked cemetery, basically of the roadside-marker type, and is easily missed. It is located on Piney Road south of Westville, Oklahoma, on the west side of the road, as you drive southbound, about 4-5 miles from Highway 62.

There is only one visible monument, with possibly one other burial, yet the cemetery is fenced and maintained. The sole monument stands on a slight ridge, so it is visible from the road. No record could be found of this cemetery, yet it would seem to have relevance to the Baptist Missionary movement, as the preacher buried here was one of the pioneers of their missionary efforts in that part of Indian Territory. According to the "Piney School" entry at the Piney Cemetery, in Adair County, the writer notes that Rev. Duncan was a Missionary to the Cherokees in the Goingsnake District, and that he started the school at Piney Community in the 1830's. Since he died in 1834, it must not have been too long before his death, that he started that school.`

According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, "Because of the close relationship between federal Indian policy and American churches during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Christianity has a long and important history in Oklahoma's Indian Country. Driven by a belief in the necessity of converting Indians, and openly supported by federal policymakers, missionaries arrived as early as the 1820s, convinced, as Henry Warner Bowden has written, "that one set of cultural standards the one shared by churchmen and politicians promoted both spiritual progress and national stability." As a result, church leaders and politicians alike believed that conversion to Christianity would quickly, humanely, and permanently solve the Indian question." (© Oklahoma Historical Society/Electronic Publishing Center, Oklahoma State University, 2007. Short excerpt exception, Common Usage.)