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Summit Community Cemetery

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Location	:	Summit, Muskogee County, USA
Coordinate	:	35.6819180, -95.4206491
Description	:	Summit is a historically all-black town, located on the Jefferson Highway (Highway 69) approximately eight miles southwest of Muskogee. Established as a model community by Lee Wilder Thomas, known as Rev. L.W. Thomas, a prominent African-American businessman and oilman, around 1920. Although almost 50 years have passed since the first canvass and survey, there was a burial here in 2014; otherwise one might presume it was an abandoned cemetery. The name Tyner used was the "Summit Colored Cemetery," but the obituary for the 2014 internment referred to it as the "Summit Community Cemetery," which is apparently what it is now being... Read More	Summit is a historically all-black town, located on the Jefferson Highway (Highway 69) approximately eight miles southwest of Muskogee. Established as a model community by Lee Wilder Thomas, known as Rev. L.W. Thomas, a prominent African-American businessman and oilman, around 1920. Although almost 50 years have passed since the first canvass and survey, there was a burial here in 2014; otherwise one might presume it was an abandoned cemetery. The name Tyner used was the "Summit Colored Cemetery," but the obituary for the 2014 internment referred to it as the "Summit Community Cemetery," which is apparently what it is now being called. Visited by James W. Tyner and crew, in May of 1970 in a canvass and survey for "Our People And Where They Rest," (OPAWTR) Volume 12, published by the American Indian Institute, University of Oklahoma, Hooper Printing, Norman, Oklahoma. Their information is given here as a historical reference and is presented "as is." Their book, like many such cemetery listing compilations, may contain errors. As with any genealogy information, this is merely a "source" and should be considered as such. It falls upon the end-user to verify the accuracy. Most of the volumes are available for online viewing, only at your LDS Family History Library, a partner library, or a Family History Center. (LDS) He described it as being located about one mile west of the community of Summit in Muskogee County. [Actually it is about one mile North/North-East of Summit] Another descriptor was given as "Township 14N, Range 18E, Section 20." It was also recorded by the Penquites (Deone Duncan Penquite and Walter Heck Penquite) in "Cemeteries of Muskogee County," Vol I and II, Muskogee County Genealogical Society, Muskogee, Oklahoma, circa 1985. The cemetery is also diagrammed on Cemetery Map 2, at location #109; at http://www.usgennet.org Note that the Plainview Cemetery, formerly known as "St. Thomas Primitive (Baptist) Cemetery" is apparently located nearby, and at 5092 W. Chimney Mountain Road (approximate address) is the St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church; which is on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Site, NRHP Reference # 04000123. (Township 14N, Range 18E, Sec. 20, - the same land description citation as that which Tyner gave what he then called the "Summit Colored Cemetery")

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Summit Community Cemetery is located at W. 53rd St., S (County Road E0920) Summit, Muskogee County ,Oklahoma , 74401USA.
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Latitude: 35.6819180
Longitude: -95.4206491

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