http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.mayes/952.3/mb.ashx 22Nov2008

I was there last year trying to do the same thing.  My ggrandmother, Nancy Jane Jackson, is buried there, also.  I drive up Hwy 69 and turned East on 69A.  I stopped at a pipe factory and was they said to continue on 69A until I came to a big water tower.  I made a right at that street, don't remember the name.  Then traveled down quite aways until I came to a dirt road the headed East, also.  They told me that there would be a locked gate and I would have to walk from there.  If you drove someone would think you were poaching and probably shoot you.  Once I climbed through the gate, they told me to make a left at the first road.  It was about 100 degrees that day and I had already went through 2 other graveyards in Drumwright.  When I arrived at the other dirt road it was very overgrown with brush you couldn't see the road that well.  I was in shorts and shoes and wasn't trusting the snakes in that area.  Needless to say, I didn't make it.  Somewhere on the Internet I did find a picture of her headstone.  I'll try to remember where I found the pic.  Hope this was some help.  BL

James' full name was FRANK JAMES STEPHENS but all records seem to list him as only JAMES STEPHENS. He was born in 1806 so he would have been 90 years old.  The information that I received said, "Spavinaw, Delaware Co., OK ,  but I see Spavinaw is in Mayes County.  Perhaps there is a cemetery that is actually in Delaware County, but close to the county line.  Some records show he died in MO but was buried in OK.  The story is that he slipped on ice, broke a hip and died.  That would lead one to believe he died in the

wintertime. James Stephens was married to Elizabeth Dyer.  I know they were in Hickory Co., MO at the time of the 1860 census, but because they had Confederate leanings, the left shortly after 1860 and went to SW Missouri or perhaps to Indian Territory.   No 1870 census record has been found for them.  By 1880, he had moved to Arkansas and had re-married to Nancy Pendergraft.    I found

a newspaper article, Barrry Co., MO  in  January,1892 which said, " James Stephens is going to the Indian Territory to make this his future home.  Mr. Stephens went there some years ago and __st (lost?) his wife and five children, then returned but is going back again." 

Can anyone tell me where James Stephens is buried, perhaps with his first wife, Elizabeth and their children?  

I am searching for a newspaper item of my Aunt Wellington Smith Adair who was murdered in 1922 in Mays County by a negro farm hand according to her husband obituary 7 years later.