Robert Rogers

The Oklahoma Historical Society now says this stone names the wrong man: the Robert Rogers who signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 was a first cousin of the same name. That treaty, which the Cherokee government said was not negotiated by its legal representatives, passed the Senate in May 1836 by a single vote, and John Ross carried a protest with almost 16,000 signatures to Congress in 1838. On June 22, 1839, Major Ridge, John Ridge and Elias Boudinot were killed for their part in it. Will Rogers's father was Clement Vann Rogers, born in 1839.

What the plaque says

Robert Rogers A signer of the Treaty of New Echota and grandfather of famed Will Rogers. Robert Rogers moved with his wife, Sally Vann, to Indian Territory about 1837, and estab- lished a home about 1 mile NW. He was killed in 1842 in a tribal feud as were many of the treaty signers following the forced removal of the Cherokees in 1838-39. He is buried near his home site about 1/2 mile north and 3/4 miles west of here. His widow later married a Virginian, William Musgrove. Oklahoma Historical Society 64-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cherokee National History Museum — 23 mi
  The Cherokee Nation's own history museum, in the brick capitol it built on Tahlequah's square after the Civil War, a short walk from its 1844 supreme court and its 1875 prison.
• Saline Courthouse Museum — 27 mi
  The one Cherokee district courthouse of nine still standing, an 1884 building near Rose that the Cherokee Nation bought back and opened as a museum in 2019.

More markers nearby

• Baptist Mission — steps away
• Fort Wayne — 4.9 mi