Bezion Cemetery (Nowata County, Oklahoma)
Cemetery Patent 110 (more commonly known as Bezion Cemetery) is a rectangular plot of land located on the east side of N4120 Road (County Road 412), also known as California Creek Road, about two miles southwest of Delaware in central Nowata County. The cemetery is west of California Creek on a fairly flat piece of ground on the edge of the prairie. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Cemetery Patent 110 was created by an act of Congress from unallotted land of the Cherokee Nation. A patent cemetery is public land set aside for the burial of American Indians. These lands were never part of any allotment.
An Act of Congress approved in June, 1913 (38 Stat. L, 77-96) transferred ownership of the patent cemeteries from the Cherokee Nation to the State of
Oklahoma and the Nowata County Commissioners.
Established in 1867, the cemetery was in greatest use in the late 19th century to the 1940s.
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Bezion Cemetery (Nowata County, Oklahoma)
Cemetery Patent 110 (more commonly known as Bezion Cemetery) is a rectangular plot of land located on the east side of N4120 Road (County Road 412), also known as California Creek Road, about two miles southwest of Delaware in central Nowata County. The cemetery is west of California Creek on a fairly flat piece of ground on the edge of the prairie. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Cemetery Patent 110 was created by an act of Congress from unallotted land of the Cherokee Nation. A patent cemetery is public land set aside for the burial of American Indians. These lands were never part of any allotment.
An Act of Congress approved in June, 1913 (38 Stat. L, 77-96) transferred ownership of the patent cemeteries from the Cherokee Nation to the State of
Oklahoma and the Nowata County Commissioners.
Established in 1867, the cemetery was in greatest use in the late 19th century to the 1940s.
Information from: npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/ca245867-e673-4379-8ed3-11eac5...