Bixler Cemetery

Bixler Cemetery is located outside of Liberal. Turn off highway 54 onto Blue Bell Road and continue 13 miles E and the cemetery is located on the left hand side of the blacktop on the corner of road O and U.

This small cemetery was started in the early 1900s. It is small. A metal gate is wired shut across the entrance. This cemetery is not in use and has not been for many years. It is not kept up. If you visit, please use caution during the warm months, as snakes are frequent in this area and can be dangerous.

Margaret Jannett Long, mother to Frank Long, drew a map of the cemetery and made notes in the 1920's. She used to help maintain Bixler cemetery.

Laura Youtsey-Ball walked this cemetery April 22, 2002, and recorded the following data, and she added the notes and names as recorded on the hand drawn map. At the time, the Miller Mortuary told her that when the people who owned the cemetery passed away, the records were lost, and there is not a complete listing of people buried here, to anyone's knowledge. In the late 1980s, the Scout troop went out to this small cemetery, cleaned it up, and located and marked many of the unknown graves with metal markers from Miller Mortuary.

Compiled and contributed 2002 by Laura Youtsey-Ball. Updated 31 Aug 2024 with informtion from FindAGrave.

Baker, Mrs birth and death dates unknown
Baker, Eva Crump 28 Mar 1888 – 1 Jun 1912
Bigelow, Lena Lewella 9 Feb 1909 – Jun 1910
Bigelow, __ moved/repostitioned by Sheila Gift and Frank Long
Birchell, Marvin Edward 12 Oct 1913 – 5 May 1914
Birchell__ birth and death dates unknown
Bixler, James Monroe 28 Mar 1835 – 8 Nov 1907
Bixler, Mrs birth and death dates unknown
Bixler, Rachel Anne Jones 28 Dec 1842 – 12 Feb 1920
Bowles, Serena Elizabeth Shobe 3 Oct 1856 – 15 Aug 1919
Bowles, Tiffany Murdock 23 Apr 1852 – 6 Sep 1921
Clausen, Nancy Jane Young 4 Jan 1855 – 1 Mar 1919
Clausen, Peter Theodore 12 Nov 1842 – 18 Feb 1930
Gartung, Evelyn Delight 23 Sep 1934 – 10 May 1935
Gowens, twins 12 Oct 1911 – April 1912
Henson, __ birth and death dates unknown
Henson, Mrs birth and death dates unknown
Land, Mr birth and death dates unknown
Long, William Charles 15 Apr 1912 – 22 Oct 1912; brother to Frank
Marvin, Edward birth and death dates unknown
Monroe, Benjamin Franklin 19 Jul 1854 – 10 Sep 1913, murdered
Perry, Dudley Dennis 6 Jan 1850 – 20 Dec 1910; Father
Perry, Ica Giles Bowles 2 Sep 1893 – 4 Nov 1918
Perry, Lucy Ellen Petree 9 Oct 1851 – 28 Dec 1933; Mother
Perry, Robert E. 13 Dec 1911 – 16 Aug 1913
Perry, William Doug 4 Nov 1870 – 13 Oct 1938
Risley, Etta 21 Feb 1921 twin daughter of Walter
Risley, Victoria 21 Feb 1921 twin daughter of Walter
Risselie, __ birth and death dates unknown
Risselie, __ birth and death dates unknown
Ross, Walter, aged 19 years, died in night, minister wouldn't be out for a while, so a female did the funeral, some wouldn't attend because a woman held a funeral. There are no dates for this person nor listed on the map as being buried in Bixler cem.
Sliger, Mary A 1879; may have been buried in Hutch Cemetery
Sliger, Richard J. 1875 – 1935; same stone as Mary and Roberta
Sliger, Robert J. 1919 – 1929
Sliger, Roberta B. 1918; may have been buried in Hutch Cemetery
Steinmetz, Tina Anna 28 May 1920 – 19 Jun 1920
Still, __ moved/repostitioned by Sheila Gift and Frank Long
Unknown, baby buried at night and no one knows or admits knowing who it is
Unknown, stillbirth and death dates unknown
Stokes, twins, birth and death dates unknown, sons of V.R. & E.W. Stokes
Wooden, baby boys birth and death dates unknown
Wooden, Clarence 7 Jul 1916 – 7 Jul 1916
Wooden, Hazel Lena 1 Aug 1906 – 20 Apr 1914
Zimmerman, Arlie Hugh 23 Dec 1919 – 16 Oct 1920
Zimmerman, Keith Noble 4 Feb 1925 – 6 Mar 1925, infant so or Wade

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