KNOWN BURIALS in BLACKTOWER CEMETERY

Located in Curry County, NM near Cannon housing.

As of August 18, 1994 (updated April 24, 2009)

Emmett B. Fulkerson (Mrs. Glen Franklin, of House, NM, says that this is her dad's Grandfather, and says her mom, Sallie W. Davis, had written down the date 6-17-1911 and assumed it was his death date. This information came 8-27-1991.) (His family also said he was a Civil War Veteran.)

Isaac A. Barkley, b. Jan. 19, 1876 – d. June 12, 1907.

Mrs. Ellis (Martha F.) Barkley, b. Oct. 9, 1878 – d. July 10, 1909.

Hershel Bradshaw, age 2 years, 2 months, choked, Nov. 1908

William Delbert Cherry, 1916

Clawson, Lawrence Vern Clyde, b. Aug. 28, 1897 to March 25, 1909; 11 years, 6 months old (son of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Clawson).

William F. Herrin, 1871-1913

Clarica Keeney Hill, 72, Sept. 17, 1910

Clarisa Calinda Keeney, 1838-1910 (daughter of Ursula Ray and Andrew Keeney)

Mark Hanna Pace, died circa 1909M.

Lesley, no date

Mattie Page, no date (aunt of the late Tom Weir)

Mittie D. 1875 - 1965

Mark E. Smith

Elisha Smith, wife of Mark E. Smith

Rufus Waymond Smith, (brother of Mark E.Smith) (The three Smith's names above given by granddaughter of Mark E. Smith, Dorothy Harral, 12-26-1990. She was 6 years old in 1924 when her family moved to California. The above burials were before 1924. She also states that some cousins may be buried in Blacktower Cemetery too.)

"Boy Evins", 1907 (Mary Louise Jones of Clovis says "Boy" Evins, who died in 1907 is also buried in the Blacktower Cemetery. Her mother later married "Uncle Tom Smith", a brother of the above Mark E. Smith.) This information came in 4-8-1991.

Brantley, Feb. 7, 1908 (names furnished in May of 2006 for this marker is William Benjamin Brantley who was a Civil War vertran according to Linda Brantley Adams.) This burial is recorded in Steed/Todd records Book 1, page 1. The first burial recorded by the funeral home.

A. F. Hall, 20 years old, Feb. 7, 1908

Charles J. Roberts, 24 years old, died of typhoid fever, April 31, 1908, born Oct. 30, 1881.

W. R. Salyer, 44, died of gunshot wound, June 22, 1908, place of death: 7 miles north of Blacktower. (Probably meant 7 miles west, as homestead was west of Grier. He and W. F. Jones, below, who had a homestead next to Jone, shot each other over an argument about a fence or gate with J. W. Elliott trying to settle the argument. Haney Tate of Ranchvale says Mr. Elliott ducked just as both men fired their shotguns. This information came 8-14-1994.) Land deed records show the name was spelled "Sallier".

W. F. Jones, no age given, died of gunshot wound, June 22, 1908, place of death: 7 miles north of Blacktower.

Fobert Farris, June or July, 1908.

Norma Dodson, 2 years old, July 17, 1908.

Sarah Eby, 69, August 24, 1908.

Judith Anna Manda Jackson, 54, Jan. 13, 1909. (See Mrs. W. G. Jackson below.)

Arthur Lee Brazil, 8 months old, Feb. 21, 1909.

S. Pritchard, March 6, 1909. (this tombstone reads, “Prichard, John Seboon, b. June 29, 1855 – d. Mar. 6, 1909.)

Dot Gibson, 21, April 25, 1909.

James A. Bruce, 5 years, 6 months old, April 25, 1909.

Lola Dunbar, 31, April 13, 1909.

Infant Dilingham, 14 days, August 14, 1909.

Infant Butts, premature, July 25, 1910.

Walter Hileman, 4 months, 11 days, July 12, 1910 (This twin and his sister Lottie Hileman (below) were born 2-19-1910, and were children of Charles Perry and Fannie Bell Hileman, brother and sister of Sallie W. Davis, mentioned above.)

Neville Donahoo, July 15, 1910.

Lottie Hileman, 7 months old, Sept. 7, 1910.

Bea Swift, January 1911.

T. M. Davis, 61, June 18, 1911

Douge Reed, no date. (Name sent in by Ann Hermann, 328 NW 21st, OK City, 73103.)

Loreta Elliott, 10 months, 8 days, TB, Oct. 21, 1911.

Meril L. Morton, 66 years old, Feb. 20, 1913.

Infant McCormick, June 28, 1913; (Steed Funeral Home records from July 1913 to Jan. 1922 missing.)

Marcus A. Smith, July 26, 1924

Collected by High Plains Historical Foundation. Harold Kilmer, President and Don McAlavy founding President.

The following names are included due to tombstones dug up in the 1990s.

D. Elder no dates

Schooling, Gilbert F., b. Oct. 29, 1860 – d. Dec. 28, 1915.

Brooksher, Lesley M., b. Juan. 6, 1898 – d. June 27, 1907. Son of ________________ and Josephine.

Schooling, Lola Day, b. Feb. 4, 1893 – d. Oct. 22, 1907.

Jackson, Mrs. W. G., b. 1853 – d. Jan. 1909.

Durham, Sara E. (Schooling), b. Oct. 1, 1866 – died. Feb. 25, 1940.

G. S. F.

L. D. S.

Unknown stone with what looked like “b. Nov. 4, 1904 – d. Apr. 25, 1909” on it. In the list above we showed a James A. Bruce, 5 yrs, 6 mo. old, date of death April 25, 1909 and I think this is probably the same person. Harold Kilmer.

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