J. D. "Ikard" Sugg

The Sugg brothers' big ranch lay across the Red River, in Indian Territory. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History says Joseph D. Sugg and his brother Eli Calvin, called Cal, established a ranch around 1874 on Beaver and Cow creeks in the Chickasaw Nation. Their land included what became the townsites of Waurika and Sugden. Sugden took its name from them, and the early-1890s general store beside Beaver Creek was known as Sugg's Den. The Cooke County marker describes the same partnership with Cal and says Sugg considered Cooke County home.

What the plaque says

J. D. "Ikard" Sugg J.D. "Ikard" Sugg (1854-1925) Joseph D. Sugg was born in Mississippi, the youngest of 13 children. After his mother's death, he headed west, working on a cattle drive heading north from the Red River in 1868. Later a rancher in partnership with brother Cal, he leased lands in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Texas, and sold horses to the government of Mexico. He maintained close ties to Cooke County, where he got his start in ranching, and considered it home. Upon his death in Chickasha, Oklahoma, he left money to the Cooke County Poor Farm and to the maintenance of this cemetery. Recorded - 2006

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Great Hanging Memorial — 0.9 mi
  Two granite monuments in a Gainesville park, dedicated in 2014, for the Cooke County men the Confederate militia hanged in October 1862 on suspicion of Unionism.
• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 23 mi
  A 1946 refuge on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, laid over land bought for Denison Dam and the site of the vanished railroad town of Hagerman, now a winter stop for geese.
• Stonewall Saloon Museum — 23 mi
  Saint Jo's first permanent building, a stone saloon of 1873 with rooms upstairs for trail drovers, in a town named, the story goes, as a joke on a founder who did not drink.

More markers nearby

• Fairview Cemetery — steps away
• Bailey, Joseph Weldon — steps away
• Dougherty, F. M. — steps away
• G. H. Ragsdale — steps away