Cemetery Map
Map of Section A B C D 1 3 4 4A 4B K L M O P
Deceased Records are avilable under "Oneline Tools/document Central/Miscellaneous
Hours for Vernon Cemetery
Vernon Cemetery is open to the public during daylight hours. Vehicles and pedestrians are prohibited during the hours of darkness. Normal work hours for cemetery personnel will be from 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday, except holidays. Employees of Vernon Cemetery are not expected to work on Sundays or Holidays, except when absolutely necessary in the preservation of order, and as specified in the rules and regulations.
Rates for Vernon Cemetery
Cemetery Lots Sections T, O, & P $800.00 if on city utilities
$2,500.00 if not on city utilities
Opening & Closing - Weekdays $500.00
Opening & Closing - Weekends / Holidays $800.00
Opening & Closing - Weekdays $200.00 (Cremation)
Opening & Closing - Weekends $400.00 (Cremation)
Vernon Cemetery Project
If you have questions regarding Vernon Cemetery please contact Tom Tillotson at (918) 486-2189 and they will be answered as soon as possible. To download an alphabetically listing of individuals buried in the cemetery you may do so under "online tools"/"document Central".
Rules of Vernon Cemetery - As set by City Council
Employees of Vernon Cemetery are not permitted to do any work for lot owners or visitors except upon the order of the Public Works Director, but they are required to be civil and courteous to everyone entering the cemetery.
All fees or charges for service are payable to the office of the City Clerk as herein stated, and patrons of the cemetery shall not pay any fee or gratuity to any employee.
Grave spaces shall be used for no other purpose than the burial of the human dead.
Permission will be granted for funeral homes and individuals to place wreaths, flowers, and temporary plants on graves for funerals and holidays. If temporary items have not been removed by family members within 5 days cemetery personal shall remove the items. No planting of shrubs, flowers, trees, or the like shall be permitted, and no articles whatsoever shall be placed upon the surface of said grave spaces except as herein specifically set out.
Grave space owners shall not create or erect any improvements, monuments, markers, or otherwise install any thing or structure upon any grave space. The City of Coweta does not install memorial markers. Enclosures of any kind, such as fence, coping, hedge, ditch, or the like, shall not be permitted on or around any grave, space, or lot. Grave mounds of any description are prohibited. No grave or grave space shall be raised above the established grade of surrounding terrain. Benches, urns, boxes, shells, or other similar articles of any description, being inconsistent with the intended usage of the cemetery and which prohibit the mowing and general maintenance and care of the cemetery, are prohibited, and such articles, if found upon the above premises, shall be forthwith removed.
Forty-Eight (48) hour notice is required prior to any interment. No more than one interment shall be permitted in a single grave space, except by special permission in exceptional cases as approved by the City of Coweta. No disinterment shall be made without consent of the City of Coweta. Persons requesting disinterment must procure proper permits prior to request.
No interment shall be made in any lot unless the same is paid for, including the charge for opening and closing the place of interment. Should the interment be made in any space upon the faith of an insufficient or forged or false check, draft or other by fraud, then the City of Coweta shall have the right to remove such body to a single interment space in any lot it may select in Vernon Cemetery, separate and apart from the original interment. Charges will be assessed for removal and re-interment. All charges for the purchase price of actual spaces for interment and removal fees or for foundation charges or other work or services for which charges are made, shall be paid in advance and before the services are performed.
Funerals will be accepted in the cemetery between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. on Mondays through Friday. Saturday, Sunday and holiday funerals are discouraged but are allowed in time of an emergency. Services at the cemetery must be concluded by 11:30 A.M. An extra service fee will be charged for Saturday, Sunday, and holiday services.
In order to maintain a high standard of care and to eliminate sunken graves caused by the collapse of wooden boxes, and to give peace of mind to the remaining bereaved families, burials must be made in vaults, which may be procured from any source, provided they meet the established specifications.
All Memorial Day decorations and vases shall be removed within ten (10) days after Memorial Day. Grave blankets are permitted during the months of November through February. Grave blankets will be removed by the City of Coweta and disposed of with out notice during the months of March through October.
Entry upon the cemetery premises shall be made by use of the drives provided and indicated upon the plat recorded in connection herewith.
No person or persons carrying intoxicating liquors or under the influence thereof, or in any way disorderly will be permitted within the cemetery premises. No person bearing firearms shall be admitted, except in the proper functions of military funerals. No person shall bring into the cemetery, or display therein, any sign or other advertising device.
The transfer or conveyance of any grave space shall be and is hereby made subject to the written approval and consent of the City of Coweta, Oklahoma, as a condition precedent.
The employees of the City of Coweta shall, in the exercise of the city's function of caretaker, enforce all of the restrictions, limitations, and conditions in this instrument or in the plat of the said lands set out, together with any and all other or further rules, regulations, or ordinances promulgated by the City of Coweta in furtherance of its corporate functions. The City of Coweta, through its proper employees or officers, shall supervise any and all workmen, visitors, and vehicles. Any person violating restrictions, limitations, conditions, rules, regulations, resolutions, or ordinances shall be removed or otherwise excluded from the Vernon Cemetery, upon such occasions and under such circumstances as said employees or officers shall deem expedient and proper.
All lots sold are subject to perpetual maintenance, and also subject to all reasonable rules and regulations now existing, or which may be hereafter adopted to meet conditions hereafter arising. No more than one memorial marker and one footstone marker will be permitted on each grave space. Memorial markers and footstone markers must be at ground level in the following sections: N, P, Q, R, and S. Special corner markers are installed under special permit of the City of Coweta, Oklahoma, and shall be installed by the City of Coweta, but at the sole expense of the grave space owner; and the same shall be of granite or bronze construction, and set flush with the surface. No mausoleum or similar structure shall be permitted.
The City of Coweta, neither assumes nor accepts any responsibility for the loss of items placed on graves or damage to graves, markers, and footstones. Replacement or repair of such items will be at the expense of the lot owner.
It shall be unlawful to ride or drive through any municipally-owned cemetery except on the driveways therein, and at a speed of more than fifteen miles per hour. It is unlawful for any person not acting in line of duty or within his own rights, to injure or remove any tree, shrub, or plant, or ornament on any grave, or any fence, curbing or railing around any grave lot or part of lot, or to remove any ornament at any grave.
The ordinances of the City of Coweta are hereby extended to all City of Coweta owned cemeteries which may exist outside the corporate limits of the City of Coweta and shall be in full effect therein insofar as they are applicable.
Except when such charges are fixed by ordinance, the council by motion or resolution shall fix charges to be made for opening and closing graves, setting markers, and other cemetery services. The schedule of charges shall be subject to inspection in the city clerk's office.
Any person who violates any provision the rules of the cemetery, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment in jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day upon which a violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.