29 APR 2020, Memorial notes/at time of transfer. Added gender per available data 1) In OPAWTR, the survey team recorded this family surname as BALLDRIDGE, their practice (usually) was to record whatever name was on the marker/monument, so you need to be aware of possibility for an alternative spelling. Most of the cemetery is found in OPAWTR, Vol. 3, pp. 22-23, under "South Ray Cemetery" (Univ of Oklahoma, American Indian Institute, circa 1970)
2) For some reason this is one that failed to get recorded in Tyner's survey. Her husband, Johnson, is at their plot 57, so you think it would have been in the immediate vicinity. I can't account for her absence, but...
3) Tyner does mention that this cemetery was established around 1950 and many burial places here were re-located from the Fourteen Mile Creek Area, necessitated by the construction of the Fort Gibson Reservoir. There is always the possibility that if she was one of the re-interments from the old location, as difficult as it might be to believe, she could have been lost in the shuffle.
4) Tyner's plat map does show a lot of determined, but unidentified burial slots, so it is possible she is indeed buried here, but the original marker or the re-interment marker was misplaced and her burial site was not matched up where she could be identified. Inasmuch as there was apparently not a marker there at the time of the American Indian Institute's canvass and survey (somewhere around 1970) I would be interested to know where the creator of this memorial obtained the information to initially create the memorial.
03 FEB 2021, SAC to add maiden name, YOB/YOD, LOB/LOD, and information: married 1892 in Muskogee to Johnson Baldridge. She had 4 children with Johnson
1. Columbus Mike 1881-1905
2. James "Jamey" 1884-1890
3. Coleston Babe "Bob" 1887-1960
4. Lelia Belle 1892-1958 ~
2) For some reason this is one that failed to get recorded in Tyner's survey. Her husband, Johnson, is at their plot 57, so you think it would have been in the immediate vicinity. I can't account for her absence, but...
3) Tyner does mention that this cemetery was established around 1950 and many burial places here were re-located from the Fourteen Mile Creek Area, necessitated by the construction of the Fort Gibson Reservoir. There is always the possibility that if she was one of the re-interments from the old location, as difficult as it might be to believe, she could have been lost in the shuffle.
4) Tyner's plat map does show a lot of determined, but unidentified burial slots, so it is possible she is indeed buried here, but the original marker or the re-interment marker was misplaced and her burial site was not matched up where she could be identified. Inasmuch as there was apparently not a marker there at the time of the American Indian Institute's canvass and survey (somewhere around 1970) I would be interested to know where the creator of this memorial obtained the information to initially create the memorial.
03 FEB 2021, SAC to add maiden name, YOB/YOD, LOB/LOD, and information: married 1892 in Muskogee to Johnson Baldridge. She had 4 children with Johnson
1. Columbus Mike 1881-1905
2. James "Jamey" 1884-1890
3. Coleston Babe "Bob" 1887-1960
4. Lelia Belle 1892-1958 ~
29 APR 2020, Memorial notes/at time of transfer. Added gender per available data 1) In OPAWTR, the survey team recorded this family surname as BALLDRIDGE, their practice (usually) was to record whatever name was on the marker/monument, so you need to be aware of possibility for an alternative spelling. Most of the cemetery is found in OPAWTR, Vol. 3, pp. 22-23, under "South Ray Cemetery" (Univ of Oklahoma, American Indian Institute, circa 1970)
2) For some reason this is one that failed to get recorded in Tyner's survey. Her husband, Johnson, is at their plot 57, so you think it would have been in the immediate vicinity. I can't account for her absence, but...
3) Tyner does mention that this cemetery was established around 1950 and many burial places here were re-located from the Fourteen Mile Creek Area, necessitated by the construction of the Fort Gibson Reservoir. There is always the possibility that if she was one of the re-interments from the old location, as difficult as it might be to believe, she could have been lost in the shuffle.
4) Tyner's plat map does show a lot of determined, but unidentified burial slots, so it is possible she is indeed buried here, but the original marker or the re-interment marker was misplaced and her burial site was not matched up where she could be identified. Inasmuch as there was apparently not a marker there at the time of the American Indian Institute's canvass and survey (somewhere around 1970) I would be interested to know where the creator of this memorial obtained the information to initially create the memorial.
03 FEB 2021, SAC to add maiden name, YOB/YOD, LOB/LOD, and information: married 1892 in Muskogee to Johnson Baldridge. She had 4 children with Johnson
1. Columbus Mike 1881-1905
2. James "Jamey" 1884-1890
3. Coleston Babe "Bob" 1887-1960
4. Lelia Belle 1892-1958 ~
2) For some reason this is one that failed to get recorded in Tyner's survey. Her husband, Johnson, is at their plot 57, so you think it would have been in the immediate vicinity. I can't account for her absence, but...
3) Tyner does mention that this cemetery was established around 1950 and many burial places here were re-located from the Fourteen Mile Creek Area, necessitated by the construction of the Fort Gibson Reservoir. There is always the possibility that if she was one of the re-interments from the old location, as difficult as it might be to believe, she could have been lost in the shuffle.
4) Tyner's plat map does show a lot of determined, but unidentified burial slots, so it is possible she is indeed buried here, but the original marker or the re-interment marker was misplaced and her burial site was not matched up where she could be identified. Inasmuch as there was apparently not a marker there at the time of the American Indian Institute's canvass and survey (somewhere around 1970) I would be interested to know where the creator of this memorial obtained the information to initially create the memorial.
03 FEB 2021, SAC to add maiden name, YOB/YOD, LOB/LOD, and information: married 1892 in Muskogee to Johnson Baldridge. She had 4 children with Johnson
1. Columbus Mike 1881-1905
2. James "Jamey" 1884-1890
3. Coleston Babe "Bob" 1887-1960
4. Lelia Belle 1892-1958 ~
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