Garland Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Haworth, Oklahoma

( Marker is on State Highway 3, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1995

This cemetery was the family burying ground for prominent Choctaws. Chief Samuel Garland, 1864–1866, established a plantation here after arrival over the Trail of Tears in the 1830s. Buried here are Chief Garland and his mother-in-law, Sophia Pitchlynn, the mother of Choctaw Chief Peter Pitchlynn.