Wright Cemetery: The Oldest in Chandler Oklahoma

by Wayne Pounds

Wright Cemetery contains the bodies of the first settlers both white and black known to die in and around Chandler, the county seat of Lincoln County, Oklahoma. These people entered with the land rush of 1891, which opened the Kickapoo and the Sac and Fox lands to non-Indian settlement. They were all buried in Wright Cemetery (aka Chandler Cemetery) between 1891 and 1912. This book, based entirely on historical records, tells their stories. It will be accompanied by a series of poems called BELL COW BALLADS, which will offer a new Spoon River Anthology for the year 2020. Since the two books complement each other, the author hopes you will read them both. It is the dead who can tell us most about living. It is the dead who know the secrets.

244 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2021

About the author

Wayne Pounds, besides having published a stack of academic essays and monographs, is the perpetrator of five chapbooks of poetry, four books of family history, and a collection of documented narratives about early-day killings in Oklahoma. He was born in Oklahoma and grew up there and in northern California. He began his career as a poet in the 7th grade imitating Ogden Nash and his graduate career in the jungles of Vietnam keeping a low profile. PhDeed at the University of Kansas, 1976. Lived and taught in Japan thirty years, now retired. The attraction of his books may be that he sees American matters from Japan. The books he is willing to own may be found at Amazon.com with this link: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/ent...