Medicine Springs Cemetery
Coal County, Oklahoma, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosMedicine Springs is an old Indian burial ground. Just north of the cemetery is a natural spring that the Indians called "Medicine Springs." In the old days, the springs ran year round. According to a document owned by Andy Frazier, which is the basis of documentation in a book of Coal County history, Indians used to camp by the springs and the medicine men would send their sick patients to drink the waters there. The medical properties of these waters had an effect on many sick Indians.
The Choctaw name for Medicine Springs is Okalikcha. Bill Ward says he used to find arrowheads all over the place, there, when he was young. Now the cemetery is eroding off into a nearby creek and may soon be gone. Many of the graves that were marked with sandstones are gone. The only recorded death date is 1910.
Medicine Springs is an old Indian burial ground. Just north of the cemetery is a natural spring that the Indians called "Medicine Springs." In the old days, the springs ran year round. According to a document owned by Andy Frazier, which is the basis of documentation in a book of Coal County history, Indians used to camp by the springs and the medicine men would send their sick patients to drink the waters there. The medical properties of these waters had an effect on many sick Indians.
The Choctaw name for Medicine Springs is Okalikcha. Bill Ward says he used to find arrowheads all over the place, there, when he was young. Now the cemetery is eroding off into a nearby creek and may soon be gone. Many of the graves that were marked with sandstones are gone. The only recorded death date is 1910.
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- Added: 20 Mar 2022
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2749584
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