Washunga Cemetery

 

 The sacred burial grounds of Kaw Indians, it was located one mile north of

Kaw City. The cemetery was moved (about 1974) to 2 miles north of Newkirk on Highway 77

and one half mile east when the Kaw Dam was built. A few of the graves were

moved to the Grandview Cemetery

 


 

Selected Burials from Lookups

 

 

Charles Lawson Barger, Jr.
(no dates)

Arthur L. Bellmard
d. 20 Oct 1898

Ettie Bellmard
(no dates)

Josephine Bellmard
1866-1935
(same stone w/Leonard Bellmard)

Leo Bellmard ("Bill Bailey")
19 Jan 1902 - 29 Mar 1979

Leonard Bellmard
1860-1911
(same stone w/ Josephine Bellmard)

Leonard Bellmard, Jr.
2 Sep 1892 - 2 Sep 1916

Mose Bellmard
16 Feb 1891 - 26 Mar 1948

Moses Bellmard
18___ - 1891

_______________ Bellmard
(no dates)

Lawrence Bird
(no dates)

Carolyn Sue Bowker
19 Sep 1946 - 2 Aug 1963

Frank Roscoe Bowker
13 Sep 1929 - 6 Jul 1976

James D. Bowker
28 Oct 1931 - 20 Jul 1986

James M. Butler
15 Nov 1910 - 17 Nov 2000
(same stone as Vivian L. Butler)

Vivian L. Butler
7 Jun 1917 - May 5 1968
(same stone as James M. Butler)

Almond C. Delano
10 Oct 1914 - 6 Jul 1969

Florence Delano
1907 - 1914

Julia Delano
1916 - 1918

Henry Denison
27 Nov 1909 - 4 Jul 1911

Dollretta Mae Estes
24 Oct 1927 - 1 Jun 1992

Margaret Estes
15 Jan 1949 - 17 Oct 1995

Clint Leroy Gentry
16 Sep 1963 - 17 Jun 1994

Grace T. Jones
Jan 14, 1905 Nov. 16, 1905

(daughter of Thomas and Nancy Jones)

Henrietta Jones
1869 1931
(with William)

William Jones
1864 1938
(with Henrietta)

Thomas Jones
d. 30 Sep 1906, age 35

Robert E. "Bob" Kekahbah
19 Sep 1936 - 8 Jun 1986

Vera J. Kekahbah
4 Apr 1913 - 11 Feb 1978
(same stone as William H. Kekahbah)

William H. Kekahbah
9 Jul 1904 - 8 Mar 1966
(same stone as Vera J. Kekahbah)

William H. Kekahbah
1904 - 1966
(second stone)

William Joseph "Bill Kekahbah
20 Aug 1952 - 2 Jul 1980

Mary Elizabeth LaRue
22 May 1958

Julia LaSarge
d. 6 Dec 1894

Dollretta Lessert
1915 - 1916

Harry Lesset
_________________

Stephen A. Lessert
d. 20 Jul 1902

Chad Allen Lewman
9 Nov 1981 - 17 Mar 2000

Nancy Jones Logsdon
1882 1937
(this may be Nancy Jones, wife of Thomas and mother of Grace )

Sidney Mapel
1926

Phyllis "Pat" McCeary
11 Mar 1927 - 25 Feb 1999

Edith (Kennedy) Minor (Miller)
20 Mar 1916 - 3 Jan 2003

Grace L. Murray
5 Mar 1925 - 20 Sep 1972

Joseph E. Murray
Feb 1943 - Jan 1983

Walter E. Murray
27 Dec 1923 - 24 Aug 1971

Serena Farnsworth Kennedy Newman
Hun-Kah-Me-Che-He

1891 - 1965

Peggy Jo Norris
20 Dec 1941 - 2 Aug 1979

Clyde E. Pappan
23 Jul 1917 - 19 Aug 1981

Curtis C. Pappan
7 Dec 1941

Edna Mae Pappan
(no dates)

Ette May Pappan
20 Nov 1899 - 27 Apr 1904

Fannie Wamego Pappan
14 Nov 1883 - 9 Feb 1936

George Pappan
1867 - 1934

L.H. Pappan
1865 - 1929
(same stone as Mary A. Pappan)

Mary A. Pappan
1868 - 1952
(same stone as L.H. Pappan)

Robinson Pepper
(no dates)

Thomas Pepper
11 Sep 1977

Earl E. Preston
29 Jan 1940 - 3 Jan 1979

Eugene A. "Gene" Preston
21 Jan 1917 - 23 Sep 1984
(same stone as Laura Preston)

Freddie J. Corky Preston
24 Sep 1935 - 31 Jan 1993
(same stone as Patsy Dolores Preston)

Laura Preston
29 Jul 1917 - 2 Feb 1989
(same stone as Eugene Preston)

Patsy Dolores Preston
26 Mar 1936 - 17 Sep 1984
(same stone as Freddie J. Corky Preston)

Ricky Lee Preston
6 Jul 1959 - 24 Sep 1959

Nannie Purvis
1876-1948
one stone

William Purvis
1856-1916
one stone

Charles Edward Roach
17 Apr 1907 - 27 Apr 1907

Kenneth Doyle Taylor
1 Jul 1924 - 2 Feb 1987
(same stone as Rose Marie Bowker Taylor)

Rose Marie Bowker Taylor
30 Nov 1927 - 21 Oct 1986
(same stone as Kenneth Doyle Taylor)

Wah-Ho-Bah-Ke
(no dates)

Washungah
Chief of the Kaw
d. 18 Feb 1911

Mitchell Blake Willard
23 Jan 1990 - 25 Jan 1990

Gladys M. Bellmard Wilson
1903 - 1976

James G. Wiltse
22 Feb 1837 - 11 Dec 1930

 

 

 

To request a lookup, contact Bonnie Johnson

Headstone photographs by Claudia Thiry

 

 


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Updated 7 May 2003