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BRYAN COUNTY HISTORY: The Turnbull Cemetery
Bryan County Genealogy Library
In July of 1908, the Washington Post reported that “the man who made his Winchester the law, and scattered graves of horse thieves all along the valley of the Blue and Boggy rivers” had died. That man was Turner Brashears Turnbull and his resting place is now an abandoned cemetery located northeast of Caddo. It’s on the Stuart ranch and contains over a dozen other Turnbull graves. It was surveyed in 1983 by Mary Peters, who also found numerous headstones for the Benton, Houser, and Tigert families, along with others. Her listing can be found in Bryan County Cemeteries, Vol. 3, available from the Bryan County Genealogy Library & Archives in Calera. It was canvassed again in 1984 by Gwen Walker, Joy Blankenship and Mary Armstrong. They located 53 marked headstones. GPS location devices have revealed that more than one hundred people may actually be buried there.