UNITED STATES v. UNKNOWN HEIRS, ETC.

Civ. A. No. 7553.

152 F.Supp. 452 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. The UNKNOWN HEIRS, immediate and remote and next of kin of any and ALL PERSONS BURIED IN the cemetery designated and known as POST OAK MISSION CEMETERY, situate in a tract of land in COMANCHE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, particularly described as Lots 1 and 2 in the East Half of the Northwest Quarter, Section 7 in Township 2 North Range 14 W.I.M., and all persons claiming right of sepulture in said cemetery for themselves or others, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Oklahoma.

July 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Dale Cook, Asst. U. S. Atty., Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff.

Vernon C. Field and Richardson & Cavanagh, Lawton, Okl., for defendants.


RIZLEY, District Judge.

The Department of the Army finding it necessary to expand Fort Sill Military Reservation for use in connection with the Fort Sill artillery and guided missile center project, purchased a tract of land identified and designated as Tract No. D-447. Within said tract there is a cemetery known as Post Oak Mission Cemetery. The cemetery contains some seven hundred graves including the graves of the celebrated and distinguished last chief of the...

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