Cemeteries of Washington County Oklahoma and Surrounding Counties

Database last updated Sunday, May 25 2003 4:30 P.M. CDT

Childers Chapel and Cemetery

History of the Childers Chapel Memorial Methodist Church. 
This information has been freely provided by Richard and Sharon Froelich.  
Many thanks to them and their family for their kindness. 
Richard's Aunt, Author Helen York Rose, is the reason Sharon began her research about the Childers Chapel and Cemetery.  After reading Helen's books about the Journeycake's, the York's, and the Childers, they began logging the cemetery.  This research and web page are dedicated to 

Helen York Rose.

About ten miles Northeast of Nowata, Nowata County, Oklahoma, stood a little church. The Mary A. Childers Memorial Methodist Church, built AD 1918.  The church was built on Delaware Indian Land owned by Mary A. Childers and donated by her mother Nancy Childers, in memory of her daughter Mary.  In 1955 an addition was added to the Church. The church burned leaving only the corner stone and flag pole.  The Childers Chapel Cemetery is located behind where the Church stood. Donated also by Nancy Childers in memory of Mary A. Childers, for family burials.  The cemetery has a fence around it with trees for shade.  It is maintained by family members who are proud of their past.

The Church by the Side of the Road

Thro' the mist of years I can seem to see
The church of my childhood's day;
And its mem-'ries sweet, so with joy replete
Shall live in my heart all-way.

At the place of prayer, in that little Church,
I knelt at my mother's side;
There the Lord I found, it is holy ground,
The one who for sinners died.

Then on memory's page I can see again
The Church by the side of the road;
And wherever I roam, it is guiding me home,
The Church by the side of the road

written by Helen York Rose

Cemetery Listing

Web Site Copyright © 2001 by Rich & Terri Moberly [wacookcemeteries@swbell.net]

The copyright (s) on this page must appear on all
copied and/or printed material.

 The basis of this web site is the book, "Talking Tombstones" by Ruby Cranor.  All material used from her books and research are used by permission of Ruby Cranor and her family, with many Thanks.