Notable Interments
- American jazz singer Lee Wiley
- Major Joel Elliot, commanded a unit under George Armstrong Custer at Battle of Washita River
- Captain Sonuk Mikko (Billy Bowlegs), Seminole who fought for the Union in the American Civil War
- First Lieutenant Jack C. Montgomery, Medal of Honor recipient for action in World War II
- Private First Class John N. Reese, Jr., Medal of Honor recipient for action in World War II
- Talahina Rogers, Cherokee wife of General Sam Houston
- Vivia Thomas, figure of a local legend that she was the daughter of a wealthy Boston family, and that she was abandoned at the wedding altar by a soldier who was assigned to Fort Gibson. She disguised herself as a man so she could pass as a soldier and travelled to the Fort alone, confronted him and killed him. She later died of pneumonia that she was said to have contracted while repeatedly braving cold and harsh weather to visit his grave site.
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Famous quotes containing the word notable:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)