UPDATE---May 2025

As a few of you know I am now working at FAIRLAWN Cemetery in OKC. part time as Assistant Mgr. When Benny retires, I will be taking over as Manager! I want to "apologize" ahead of time to those of you who manage so many of the memorials here on F.A.G. at Fairlawn. I am on a mission to get through all the burial cards & get everyone listed, as well as grave location, GPS, & photograph the markers. Thanks to so many of you for the quick approval of my edits. Many people don't realize that purchasing a single grave or lot is a Real Estate transaction, & there is a Legal description of said property. A deed is issued & it can be recorded with the County Registrar of Deeds! There has been some confusion with some of the "Plot" info/description because of the original interment book, (1892). It does not have a column for "ROW". It only has LOT, BLOCK & GRAVE. When there is an "R" next to a number it's designating a "ROW" not a legal LOT & BLOCK location. The cemetery does not have any "R" Blocks.

2010 ..I don't know what to say about myself, but I want to say to those of you that come across my photos, if you open them up, I usually will add some kind of comment that I would feel would be helpful to someone doing genealogy research, since I personally use FAG a lot for that purpose. I will put the family stone on everyone in that plot, along with the personal marker of all members. I will also put who is next to who.(Helps with relationships to each other)..I am addicted to this..what a great Vice..LOL..My family just shakes their heads..Love our cemeteries, some of them, like Fairlawn in OKC are just so pretty...well gotta run, sun is out, and I have a couple hours to, well you know, go to the cemetery!!

MAY 6, 2013,,//William H. Macy & crew at Fairlawn Filming for a new movie!!! how COOL !!!

MAY 2015: I took a trip to Milton, Pa. I took over 1100 photographs! Unfortunately, when I burned the photos to a disk from my tablet, it "rearranged" them somewhat, so I did not write on a lot of them the layout of the plot....My family tree: KURTZ_AUTEN/ATEN, BOYER,KLINE, CRAWFORD, REETZ.

When I find a document showing where people are buried, I add as many as I can. If it lists age at death, I will put that on the listing, but I don't spend the time figuring it out, I feel it is more important to get the name on F.A.G, so that others may find family, the dates can always be edited.

I REALLY dislike photos of Death Cert. on my listings, especially if I note: "Info. per DC." if I had wanted it on the memorial I would have added it. It's pretty sad that nice/neat handwriting wasn't a requirement for the position of filling them out! It's kind of disrespectful to the deceased and family that the time couldn't be spent on the persons last documentation of their having lived to be neat & legible. If the person filling it out had Bad handwriting, they should have had someone else redo it!

"Dear Ancestor"

Your tombstone stands among the rest;

Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you.

Author: Walter Butler Palmer