Samuel Checote

Checote's preaching was once against Muscogee (Creek) law. The Lower Creek Council passed laws in 1832 and 1844 forbidding any tribal member to preach, and Checote, schooled under the Methodist missionary John Harrell west of Okmulgee, persuaded Chief Roley McIntosh to repeal them. He joined the Indian Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, on October 28, 1852. His twelve years as principal chief came amid the split between Upper and Lower Creeks that broke into the Green Peach War. Chosen a delegate to the 1882 Ecumenical Conference, he was too ill to go.

What the plaque says

Samuel Checote Grave 1.9 miles N.W. This noted Creek leader, b. 1819 Ala., had attended old Asbury Mis- sion before he came to Ind. Ty. He was a Methodist preacher for 32 years till his death, 1884. He served as Lieut. Col., First Regt. Creek Mounted Vols., C.S.A., during the Civil War. Elected for his first term as Principal Chief, Creek Nation, in 1867. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1966

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muscogee (Creek) Nation Council House — steps away
  The Muscogee (Creek) Nation's 1878 stone capitol on the Okmulgee square, where the House of Kings and House of Warriors met, lost at statehood and bought back by the Nation in 2010.

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