Legal Cemetery

Legal Cemetery is located on N. E. of Coalgate on Hwy 31, approx 15 miles,
4 miles East, 8-1/2 miles North, 2 miles East, 2 miles North on Hwy 31.

This cemetery is unmarked. An old chimney stands in a feed lot on the West side of the road.
Here, walk around a lake and back West on top of a knoll in a grove of trees.
There is a barbed wire fence but cows have got in and knocked over a tombstone.

According to some old settlers, this was one of the first Choctaw Indian Settlements in Coal County.

The lake East of the cemtery is Spring Fed.
This information was submitted to the CCGS.

LAST	FIRST MI	BIRTH	DEATH	COMMENTS
* ALLISON	Tommie May	4 May 1882	12 Nov 1901	Wife of R. J. Allison This inscription on South side of marker
* HOWARD	Thos J.	3 Sep 1852	1 Apr 1909	North side of marker
* KING	Andrew or Anderson	Oct 1837	22 June 1909	Age 74 years
* KING	McGehee	Oct 1886
* KING	Mitchell	1874
* RIDEL	Sean	19 Nov 1867	17 Dec 1907	Dau of A & Sophia King
* SKINNER	Jesse Mae	July 1884	June 1911	J. M. S.