Geronimo's Gravesite

 military, cemetery, Native American

Locate on Ft Sill.

Address: Elgin Road, Fort Sill, OK [Show Map]

Directions: 4 m N of town on I-44, Ft. Sill Key Gate exit. Apache POW Cemetery is near Elgin and Dodge Hill Rd.

MAP: www.roadsideamerica.com/map/16666

In 1894 Geronimo and 341 other Apache prisoners of war were brought to Fort Sill where they lived in villages on the range. Geronimo was granted permission to travel for a while with Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show and he visited President Theodore Roosevelt before dying here of pneumonia in 1909. The rest of the Apaches remained on Fort Sill until 1913 and they were taught by Lt. Hugh L. Scott to build houses, raise crops and herd cattle. The head of the eagle on this gravestone has been broken off for years.

The grave site of Geronimo, his wife Zi-yeh and daughter Eva Geronimo Godeley are in the Apache Indian Cemetery inside Fort Sill.