Oak Cemetery Burials

If a man executed on the gallows at Fort Smith had family, his body was turned over to the family for burial. Prior to the mid-1880s, the federal court was burying the unclaimed on the former military reservation. Many of the later burials were in Fort Smith’s Oak Cemetery. Twenty-eight of those executed are buried in or near the potter's field section of the cemetery. The only marked grave is that of Sheppard Busby.

Men executed on the Fort Smith gallows buried in Oak Cemetery

Name	Burial Date	Block	Range	Grave