While findagrave.com says there are no famous people buried here, around 1,030 people are interred at this roadside cemetery.
The oldest death date, according to findagrave is “Infant Son Northcutt” We do not know his birthdate and his death date is not specific. We only know he died in 1881.
His parents were Odon and Arizona Northcutt. We know they had at least 6 kids.
Odon Northcutt was born on June 15, 1855 in Newton County, Missouri.
He died at the age of 66 in Cheney on December 5, 1921.
His obituary in the Wichita Beacon on December 6, 1921, said he “was one of the oldest residents of that part of Sedgwick County.”
Northcutt served as a trader, county commissioner, real estate agent and, “at the time of his death he was the president of the Citizens State Bank of Cheney.” According to the Beacon, “He was a member of the Wichita Consistory. He also was an Odd Fellow and a member of the Cheney Lodge No. 258”
The article continued, “Mr. Northcutt was a progressive citizen and many men give him credit of much of their success in their early residence in Kansas. He was an ardent Democrat, (NOTE: He was also a member of the Populist Party) and a fearless fighter, but his fights always tempered with justice.”
There is another important person buried here. Dr. Paul Longhofer. He was an educator, spending time leading Wichita North and then taking the reigns at Wichita East. He was known as Dr. Paul, and the students and faculty adored him. He served on the board at YMCA and was a founding member of Chapel Hill Fellowship United Methodist Church. Dr., Paul died November 21, 2020 at the age of 82.
To find out about other cemeteries in the Wichita area, check out Sedgwick County Cemeteries.