Dick Childers married Lucy Anna Ackley, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Rush) Ackley, on 18 June 1879 at the Tallahassee Mission, Creek Nation, Indian Territory (near present day Fort Gibson). Dr. Robert McGill Loughridge officiated. The Ackley family had moved into Chouteau, Cherokee Nation just one year before, on 10 March 1878.
Dick and Lucy had two children: Henry Samuel (b.1881) and Sara Anna (b. 2 July 1883). Two-year old Sara died 19 July 1885 in Catoosa, I.T. Three years later, her mother Lucy passed in Catoosa in February 1888 from typhoid fever. Source: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr.'s extensive research.
Dick later took his young son Sam to live in Pryor Creek near Sam's Uncle Henry Wilson Ackley. After a short illness, Dick died in February 1891. He was buried near his brother-in-law Henry who had died but a few days earlier, on 2 Feb 1891. One family narrative is that Richard caught typhoid from wading across Pryor Creek. His son recalled riding his father's shoulders across that same creek en route to Uncle Henry's home. (When canvassing this cemetery, I found the same creek bubbling and colored bright green from chemical waste).
Family lore is that Henry Ackley's grave is at one end of an enclosed grave site marked by a stone wall about 12 inches high and around an 8 x 15 foot area. Dick Childers' grave is "at the same end just outside the wall." This writer has been to this cemetery and finds no grave markers remain for her Ackley or Childers ancestors. His grandson Sam Childers told me he last saw their tombstones in the early 1970s.
There are two enclosures in this small cemetery that are surrounded by short walls of stone. I wish to correct the story passed down that this cemetery was for "whites" only, and that Dick's alleged "mixed blood" kept him from being buried inside "the wall." Having looked at censuses of both Indian Territory and U.S. Federal containing names of many of this cemetery's occupants , I find that most people placed here were members of Cherokee Nation. Unlike mine, who were twice listed as white "Intruders" on two censuses.
The 1880 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation has:
Richard Childers, Farmer, White, Age 27, Male, By permission of tribal member: Sallie Cunningham, Household members: 2
The 1890 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation shows "Persons residing in said District, not recognized as Cherokee Citizens, and who are under permit, either by the Nation or U.S."
1. Dick Childers, farmer, American, 33, # in family: 2, Arrived in Nation: Sept 1874, 2 cattle 5 hogs
2. Henry S. Childers, American, age 10, " "
"Intruders" was the federally-recognized name for those of non-tribal U.S. citizenship who made their home within Indian Territory.
Are you related to Dick Childers or do you descend from his parents or siblings? Please contact me. My family is eager to learn from where our Richard Childers came to live in Indian Territory in 1874. We know little about him.
Sources: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr. and Sam Childers
Dick and Lucy had two children: Henry Samuel (b.1881) and Sara Anna (b. 2 July 1883). Two-year old Sara died 19 July 1885 in Catoosa, I.T. Three years later, her mother Lucy passed in Catoosa in February 1888 from typhoid fever. Source: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr.'s extensive research.
Dick later took his young son Sam to live in Pryor Creek near Sam's Uncle Henry Wilson Ackley. After a short illness, Dick died in February 1891. He was buried near his brother-in-law Henry who had died but a few days earlier, on 2 Feb 1891. One family narrative is that Richard caught typhoid from wading across Pryor Creek. His son recalled riding his father's shoulders across that same creek en route to Uncle Henry's home. (When canvassing this cemetery, I found the same creek bubbling and colored bright green from chemical waste).
Family lore is that Henry Ackley's grave is at one end of an enclosed grave site marked by a stone wall about 12 inches high and around an 8 x 15 foot area. Dick Childers' grave is "at the same end just outside the wall." This writer has been to this cemetery and finds no grave markers remain for her Ackley or Childers ancestors. His grandson Sam Childers told me he last saw their tombstones in the early 1970s.
There are two enclosures in this small cemetery that are surrounded by short walls of stone. I wish to correct the story passed down that this cemetery was for "whites" only, and that Dick's alleged "mixed blood" kept him from being buried inside "the wall." Having looked at censuses of both Indian Territory and U.S. Federal containing names of many of this cemetery's occupants , I find that most people placed here were members of Cherokee Nation. Unlike mine, who were twice listed as white "Intruders" on two censuses.
The 1880 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation has:
Richard Childers, Farmer, White, Age 27, Male, By permission of tribal member: Sallie Cunningham, Household members: 2
The 1890 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation shows "Persons residing in said District, not recognized as Cherokee Citizens, and who are under permit, either by the Nation or U.S."
1. Dick Childers, farmer, American, 33, # in family: 2, Arrived in Nation: Sept 1874, 2 cattle 5 hogs
2. Henry S. Childers, American, age 10, " "
"Intruders" was the federally-recognized name for those of non-tribal U.S. citizenship who made their home within Indian Territory.
Are you related to Dick Childers or do you descend from his parents or siblings? Please contact me. My family is eager to learn from where our Richard Childers came to live in Indian Territory in 1874. We know little about him.
Sources: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr. and Sam Childers
Dick Childers married Lucy Anna Ackley, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Rush) Ackley, on 18 June 1879 at the Tallahassee Mission, Creek Nation, Indian Territory (near present day Fort Gibson). Dr. Robert McGill Loughridge officiated. The Ackley family had moved into Chouteau, Cherokee Nation just one year before, on 10 March 1878.
Dick and Lucy had two children: Henry Samuel (b.1881) and Sara Anna (b. 2 July 1883). Two-year old Sara died 19 July 1885 in Catoosa, I.T. Three years later, her mother Lucy passed in Catoosa in February 1888 from typhoid fever. Source: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr.'s extensive research.
Dick later took his young son Sam to live in Pryor Creek near Sam's Uncle Henry Wilson Ackley. After a short illness, Dick died in February 1891. He was buried near his brother-in-law Henry who had died but a few days earlier, on 2 Feb 1891. One family narrative is that Richard caught typhoid from wading across Pryor Creek. His son recalled riding his father's shoulders across that same creek en route to Uncle Henry's home. (When canvassing this cemetery, I found the same creek bubbling and colored bright green from chemical waste).
Family lore is that Henry Ackley's grave is at one end of an enclosed grave site marked by a stone wall about 12 inches high and around an 8 x 15 foot area. Dick Childers' grave is "at the same end just outside the wall." This writer has been to this cemetery and finds no grave markers remain for her Ackley or Childers ancestors. His grandson Sam Childers told me he last saw their tombstones in the early 1970s.
There are two enclosures in this small cemetery that are surrounded by short walls of stone. I wish to correct the story passed down that this cemetery was for "whites" only, and that Dick's alleged "mixed blood" kept him from being buried inside "the wall." Having looked at censuses of both Indian Territory and U.S. Federal containing names of many of this cemetery's occupants , I find that most people placed here were members of Cherokee Nation. Unlike mine, who were twice listed as white "Intruders" on two censuses.
The 1880 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation has:
Richard Childers, Farmer, White, Age 27, Male, By permission of tribal member: Sallie Cunningham, Household members: 2
The 1890 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation shows "Persons residing in said District, not recognized as Cherokee Citizens, and who are under permit, either by the Nation or U.S."
1. Dick Childers, farmer, American, 33, # in family: 2, Arrived in Nation: Sept 1874, 2 cattle 5 hogs
2. Henry S. Childers, American, age 10, " "
"Intruders" was the federally-recognized name for those of non-tribal U.S. citizenship who made their home within Indian Territory.
Are you related to Dick Childers or do you descend from his parents or siblings? Please contact me. My family is eager to learn from where our Richard Childers came to live in Indian Territory in 1874. We know little about him.
Sources: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr. and Sam Childers
Dick and Lucy had two children: Henry Samuel (b.1881) and Sara Anna (b. 2 July 1883). Two-year old Sara died 19 July 1885 in Catoosa, I.T. Three years later, her mother Lucy passed in Catoosa in February 1888 from typhoid fever. Source: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr.'s extensive research.
Dick later took his young son Sam to live in Pryor Creek near Sam's Uncle Henry Wilson Ackley. After a short illness, Dick died in February 1891. He was buried near his brother-in-law Henry who had died but a few days earlier, on 2 Feb 1891. One family narrative is that Richard caught typhoid from wading across Pryor Creek. His son recalled riding his father's shoulders across that same creek en route to Uncle Henry's home. (When canvassing this cemetery, I found the same creek bubbling and colored bright green from chemical waste).
Family lore is that Henry Ackley's grave is at one end of an enclosed grave site marked by a stone wall about 12 inches high and around an 8 x 15 foot area. Dick Childers' grave is "at the same end just outside the wall." This writer has been to this cemetery and finds no grave markers remain for her Ackley or Childers ancestors. His grandson Sam Childers told me he last saw their tombstones in the early 1970s.
There are two enclosures in this small cemetery that are surrounded by short walls of stone. I wish to correct the story passed down that this cemetery was for "whites" only, and that Dick's alleged "mixed blood" kept him from being buried inside "the wall." Having looked at censuses of both Indian Territory and U.S. Federal containing names of many of this cemetery's occupants , I find that most people placed here were members of Cherokee Nation. Unlike mine, who were twice listed as white "Intruders" on two censuses.
The 1880 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation has:
Richard Childers, Farmer, White, Age 27, Male, By permission of tribal member: Sallie Cunningham, Household members: 2
The 1890 Census of Cooweescoowee District, Cherokee Nation shows "Persons residing in said District, not recognized as Cherokee Citizens, and who are under permit, either by the Nation or U.S."
1. Dick Childers, farmer, American, 33, # in family: 2, Arrived in Nation: Sept 1874, 2 cattle 5 hogs
2. Henry S. Childers, American, age 10, " "
"Intruders" was the federally-recognized name for those of non-tribal U.S. citizenship who made their home within Indian Territory.
Are you related to Dick Childers or do you descend from his parents or siblings? Please contact me. My family is eager to learn from where our Richard Childers came to live in Indian Territory in 1874. We know little about him.
Sources: Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr. and Sam Childers
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