Death date may be death or burial date, likely buried within a day.
No headstone.
From, "The Forgotten Fifty-Two, A Chronicle of Life & Death", By Richard Ledbetter (Oakland Cemetery groundskeeper), in the 22 July 2020 issue of the Fordyce News-Advocate; in summary:
In June 2020 a leather-bound ledger book titled "Oakland Cemetery" was found in the Fordyce City Hall archives. The first pages are a list of 52 initial burials (name, age, death date, cause of death and native state); starting 5 May 1886 shortly after Fordyce was incorporated 8 April 1884, and proceeding in chronological order through 1 Sept 1906.
None of the 52 names have a headstone. It appears most were in transit along the 2 major railroads or working in logging and lumber and buried by the township in the "pauper" section in the northeast corner in the back of the cemetery which began as Block 1 and presently designated as Block 4B.
The 3rd entry: "Jan 1/87 Reaves, Consumption, Block 1 Lot 3. His native state unknown"
No headstone.
From, "The Forgotten Fifty-Two, A Chronicle of Life & Death", By Richard Ledbetter (Oakland Cemetery groundskeeper), in the 22 July 2020 issue of the Fordyce News-Advocate; in summary:
In June 2020 a leather-bound ledger book titled "Oakland Cemetery" was found in the Fordyce City Hall archives. The first pages are a list of 52 initial burials (name, age, death date, cause of death and native state); starting 5 May 1886 shortly after Fordyce was incorporated 8 April 1884, and proceeding in chronological order through 1 Sept 1906.
None of the 52 names have a headstone. It appears most were in transit along the 2 major railroads or working in logging and lumber and buried by the township in the "pauper" section in the northeast corner in the back of the cemetery which began as Block 1 and presently designated as Block 4B.
The 3rd entry: "Jan 1/87 Reaves, Consumption, Block 1 Lot 3. His native state unknown"
Death date may be death or burial date, likely buried within a day.
No headstone.
From, "The Forgotten Fifty-Two, A Chronicle of Life & Death", By Richard Ledbetter (Oakland Cemetery groundskeeper), in the 22 July 2020 issue of the Fordyce News-Advocate; in summary:
In June 2020 a leather-bound ledger book titled "Oakland Cemetery" was found in the Fordyce City Hall archives. The first pages are a list of 52 initial burials (name, age, death date, cause of death and native state); starting 5 May 1886 shortly after Fordyce was incorporated 8 April 1884, and proceeding in chronological order through 1 Sept 1906.
None of the 52 names have a headstone. It appears most were in transit along the 2 major railroads or working in logging and lumber and buried by the township in the "pauper" section in the northeast corner in the back of the cemetery which began as Block 1 and presently designated as Block 4B.
The 3rd entry: "Jan 1/87 Reaves, Consumption, Block 1 Lot 3. His native state unknown"
No headstone.
From, "The Forgotten Fifty-Two, A Chronicle of Life & Death", By Richard Ledbetter (Oakland Cemetery groundskeeper), in the 22 July 2020 issue of the Fordyce News-Advocate; in summary:
In June 2020 a leather-bound ledger book titled "Oakland Cemetery" was found in the Fordyce City Hall archives. The first pages are a list of 52 initial burials (name, age, death date, cause of death and native state); starting 5 May 1886 shortly after Fordyce was incorporated 8 April 1884, and proceeding in chronological order through 1 Sept 1906.
None of the 52 names have a headstone. It appears most were in transit along the 2 major railroads or working in logging and lumber and buried by the township in the "pauper" section in the northeast corner in the back of the cemetery which began as Block 1 and presently designated as Block 4B.
The 3rd entry: "Jan 1/87 Reaves, Consumption, Block 1 Lot 3. His native state unknown"
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