Oklahoma Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Conroe, Texas

( From Conroe take I45 S; L on FM 2978; go approx 5 mi to Oklahoma Cemetery sign, turn left onto Conroe-Hufsmith Road; it is about 1/3 mi to the cemetery entrance.)

Marker installed: 2001

Oral tradition says that when a Mr. Sanders told a Mr. Leslie he was moving to Oklahoma, bu he moved near here instead, the settlement was named "Oklahoma." George W. Snook (1849-1939) and Bonnie Jerome Goodson Snook (1863-1939) were the first to set aside an acre here for a burial ground when their young daughter, Jessie Snook (1890-1894), became ill and died. A tree uprooted by a storm was the last place she had visited so they buried her nearby. The girl's uncle, John Henry Goodson (1867-1958), also donated an acre to this site in 1903. It doubled in size since then, remaining a chronicle of the families of this area of Montgomery County.

Historic Texas Cemetery - 2001.

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