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Blackjack Cemetery

Resting place of Sarah Rector.

Taft, Oklahoma

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Resting place of Sarah Rector, who was known as the richest Black girl in the world at one point. Resting place for Muscogee Creek Freedmen, and other Black children made wealthy by oil. In the middle of the historic Black town of Taft. 

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Accessible by a narrow one lane road and it is an active cemetery. 

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Blackjack Cemetery
Taft, Oklahoma, 74463
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35.7778, -95.5389

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