Oak Cemetery Burials

Tombstone of Sheppard Busby at Oak Cemetery.

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If someone executed on the gallows at Fort Smith had a family, their body was turned over to the family for burial. Prior to the mid-1880s, the federal court buried the unclaimed bodies on the former military reservation. Many of the later burials were in Fort Smith’s Oak Cemetery.

Twenty-eight of the men executed at Fort Smith are buried in or near the potter's field section of the cemetery. The only marked grave is that of Sheppard Busby.

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Men executed on the Fort Smith gallows buried in Oak Cemetery

Name	Burial Date	Block	Range	Grave

Name	Burial Date	Block	Range	Grave
Allen, Malachi	April 19, 1889	11	4	508
Arcine, James	June 26, 1885	13	4	137
Austin, Harris	January 16, 1890	11/13		571
Billy, John	January 16, 1890	11/13		572
Bogles, Gus	July 6, 1888	9	4	433
Busby, Sheppard	April 27, 1892	11/13		668
Crow, Jackson	April 27, 1888	11	4	407
Hampton, Silas	October 7, 1887	13	4	351
Hill, Owens D.	April 27, 1888	11	4	409
Ishtanubbe, Gibson	April 21, 1876	11	2
Issaacs, Webber	April 30, 1896	11/13
Jackson, Joseph L	April 23, 1886	11	4	202
James, Calvin	July 23, 1886	11	4	222
Jones, Jefferson	January 16, 1890	11/13		570
Lamb, James E	January 14, 1887	11	4	275
Massey, Robert C.	April 13, 1883	6	4	5
McGee, Orpheus	April 21, 1876	11	2
Moss, George	April 27, 1888	11	4	408
Parchmeal, William	June 26, 1885	13	4	138
Peters, Samuel	September 8, 1876	11	2
Seely, Isham	April 21, 1876	11	2
Stansberry, John	July 9, 1890	11/13		616
Stewart, Henri Dr.	August 29, 1879	10	4	1
Tobler, George	January 30, 1890	11/13		581
Valley, John	September 8, 1876	11	2
Walker, William	August 30, 1889	11/13		545
Wasson, James L.	April 23, 1886	11	4	203
Wilson, Sinker	September 8, 1876	11	2