The Leonard Family of Oklahoma:Information about Samuel Houston
Samuel Houston (d. date unknown)
Notes for Samuel Houston:
Sam Houston, famous as the Father of Texas, was at one time a Cherokee citizen.While a teenager, Houston lived with Chief John Jolly, or Ahuludegi (He Throws Away the Drum) for a time in Tennessee, in the old Cherokee Nation, and Jolly adopted Houston as his son. Eventually Houston went out to make his way in the world, and he indeed made quite a mark within a few short years. After a brief but very successful military career, he was admitted to the bar in Tennessee, became adjutant general and then governor of the state.
Governor Houston then got married, and the marriage broke up almost immediately. There was a terrible scandal, and Houston resigned the governorship. He went back to live with John Jolly, but the old chief had already moved west to join the group we now call the "Old Settler" or "Early Settler" Cherokees. At that time they were known as the Western Cherokee Nation and were recognized and dealt with as such by the government of the United States. They were by then (1829) living in what is now eastern Oklahoma.
Following a steamboat trip up the Arkansas River, Houston found his adopted father living near Webber's Falls, and he himself settled near Fort Gibson, marrying Cherokee Diana Rogers and opening a trading post which he called Wigwam Neosho.The council of the Western Cherokee Nation made Houston a citizen, an act exactly comparable to the naturalization process by which the United States government makes immigrants into citizens. After that the government of the Western Cherokee Nation sent Houston to Washington as a delegate from the Western Cherokee Nation to the United States.
Houston didn't stay with the Cherokees, of course. He went on to Texas where he led the Texas Revolutionary Army to victory over Mexico, became President of the Republic of Texas and later Governor of the state of Texas.
Source:
Cherokee Citizenship of Sam Houston
by Chad Smith, January 23, 1994 [LeonardTree.FTW]
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Sam Houston, famous as the Father of Texas, was at one time a Cherokee citizen.While a teenager, Houston lived with Chief John Jolly, or Ahuludegi (He Throws Away the Drum) for a time in Tennessee, in the old Cherokee Nation, and Jolly adopted Houston as his son. Eventually Houston went out to make his way in the world, and he indeed made quite a mark within a few short years. After a brief but very successful military career, he was admitted to the bar in Tennessee, became adjutant general and then governor of the state.
Governor Houston then got married, and the marriage broke up almost immediately. There was a terrible scandal, and Houston resigned the governorship. He went back to live with John Jolly, but the old chief had already moved west to join the group we now call the "Old Settler" or "Early Settler" Cherokees. At that time they were known as the Western Cherokee Nation and were recognized and dealt with as such by the government of the United States. They were by then (1829) living in what is now eastern Oklahoma.
Following a steamboat trip up the Arkansas River, Houston found his adopted father living near Webber's Falls, and he himself settled near Fort Gibson, marrying Cherokee Diana Rogers and opening a trading post which he called Wigwam Neosho.The council of the Western Cherokee Nation made Houston a citizen, an act exactly comparable to the naturalization process by which the United States government makes immigrants into citizens. After that the government of the Western Cherokee Nation sent Houston to Washington as a delegate from the Western Cherokee Nation to the United States.
Houston didn't stay with the Cherokees, of course. He went on to Texas where he led the Texas Revolutionary Army to victory over Mexico, became President of the Republic of Texas and later Governor of the state of Texas.
Source:
Cherokee Citizenship of Sam Houston
by Chad Smith, January 23, 1994
More About Samuel Houston:
Known As: General Sam Houston.1628, 1629