Frances Flora “Fannie” Foreman Sixkiller
Birth: 25 Nov 1846 Adair County, Oklahoma, USA
Death: 27 May 1889 (aged 42) Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA
Memorial #: 143769266
Bio: Daughter of Thomas Foreman and Elizabeth Chicken.
She married Sam Sixkiller in September 1865
Children:
-Twins Rachel and Eliza, born May 5, 1870;
Rachel died on July 4, 1889, after a long unknown illness;
Eliza married George Washington Morgan and died 7 May 1895 in Talequah.
-Minnie, born 1871, died 1880 (drowning)
-Emma 'Tookah', born 15 Jun 1876, died 10 Jun 1927 at Del Rio, Texas, wife of ?? Garrett; buried at Del Rio
-Cora, born Sep 4, 1874, died 1913; wife of Frank McSpadden
-Sam R., born Feb 13, 1877, died 1958; married to Mattie Bell Sixkiller (daughter of Luke Sixkiller and Emma Blythe)
-Lucas, born 1879
-'Fannie' Frances Edna, born 16 Jan 1879, wife of Carl J. Haglund; died 26 Dec 1964 in Los Angeles, CA
OBITUARY
From the Muskogee Phoenix, July 11, 1889
Mrs. Sixkiller had been quite ill for several months and it became apparent quite a time since, that death was gradually approaching. Everything that loving friends and family could do for her comfort and ease was done with willing hands and after her death, sweetly resigned to an inevitable fate, trusting implicitly in the promise of her redeeming Savior, and while to use the fact that she must need be taken from her children, and they by her death became orphans, and that with one daughter prostrated upon a bed of sickness, seems doubly severe affliction, yet it was God's will, and His way is the right way, however shrouded in inexplicable mystery it may seem to us, and it is but our duty and privilege to calmly yield to His mandates however poignant with grief may seem the affliction, which is His Divine mercy and grace He seems fit to lay upon us.
Fannie leaves six children and hosts of relatives and friends, many of whom had known her for years, and all of whom testify to her excellent Christian character, loving and kind disposition. She mourned the murder of her husband until her last breath was taken.
From the Cherokee Advocate, January 5, 1887
Mrs. Fannie Sixkiller was the wife of the late Samuel Sixkiller, who met his match two years ago this Christmas. The Rev. T. F. Brewer officiated at the funeral in the Methodist Church, and she was laid to rest in the Muskogee City Cemetery.
A Note about the Old Muskogee City Cemetery
The site of the burial, the old Muskogee City Cemetery, is no longer in existence.
During the early days of Muskogee the City Cemetery was located at the corner of Sixth Street and Martin Luther King Blvd., in the parking lot directly across the street (West) from the old Baptist Hospital. It was known as the Muskogee Burial Association Cemetery.
In the latter part of the 1890 the City leaders began to see the need for a larger cemetery. There was a parcel of land available at the Northeast corner of York and North Street. Eighty acres of this land belonged to the Creek Nation and was purchased by the City of Muskogee for $1639.00 dollars. Since that time some civic minded businessmen of the area have donated the rest of the land, which is about 160 acres. The men who donated the land were said to be William S. Murphy, James A. Patterson, Captain F.B. Severs, Clarence W. Turner and Samuel Sondheimer, all of these men are buried here in the cemetery. In 1901 this parcel of land became the City Cemetery, known as Greenhill Cemetery.
In 1904 all the bodies was removed from the old cemetery and buried at Greenhill. It's not clear exactly how many bodies were moved but Chapman and Johnson were the low bidders, and moved the bodies for $1819.50. At the back of the cemetery is the old county burial grounds. No records of burials were kept at that time.
Family Members
Spouse
Samuel Sixkiller 1842-1886
Children
Cora Sixkiller McSpadden 1874-1913
Emma Tookah Sixkiller Garrett 1876-1927
Samuel Rasmus Sixkiller 1877-1958
Created by: Choctaw Journeys (47251652)
Added: 15 Mar 2015
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143769266/frances-flora-sixkiller
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143769266/frances-flora-sixkiller : accessed 21 December 2021), memorial page for Frances Flora “Fannie” Foreman Sixkiller (25 Nov 1846–27 May 1889), Find a Grave Memorial ID 143769266, citing Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA ; Maintained by Choctaw Journeys (contributor 47251652) .
