Ward Coachman
1823 - 1900 (77 years)
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Name Ward Coachman Born 1823 Wetumpka, Elmore, Alabama 
[1] Gender Male Military 03 Nov 1862 Creek Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma [2] Enlisted, Second Lieutenant, Company E, Second Creek Indian Regiment C.S.A., under Col. Chilli McIntosh. Political 1875 Okmulgee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma [3] Elected Second Chief of the Creek Nation. Political 05 Dec 1876 Okmulgee, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma [4] Lochar Harjo impeached, convicted and removed from the office of Chief. Coachman served the remainder of the term but was defeated by Sam Checote when he stood for election in 1879. Died 13 Mar 1900 Wetumka, Hughes, Oklahoma [2] Person ID I8707 Dickinson Last Modified 28 Mar 2012
Father Mustaushobie Mother Mary Durant, b. Abt 1783, Alabama , d. 1836, Alabama (Age ~ 53 years) Married Y [5] Family ID F2356 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 1823 - Wetumpka, Elmore, Alabama 
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Photos Ward Coachman
Chief of Creek Nation (1876-1879)
Documents 
Coachman, Ward
Dawes Enrollment Card
Histories 
Veterans: Confederate
Had the South in her border
A hero to spare,
Or a heart at her altar,
Lo! its life's blood was there!
And the black battle-grime
Might never disguise
The smile of the South
On the lips and the eyes
Of her barefooted boys!
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Sources - [S336371] The Indian Territory, Its Chiefs, Legislators and Leading Men, Harry F. O'Beirne and Edward S. O'Beirne, (St. Louis, Missouri: C. B. Woodward, 1892), 341.
- [S336413] Chief Samuel Checote, with Sketches of Chiefs Locher Harjo and Ward Coachman, Chronicles of Oklahoma, John Bartlett Meserve, (Oklahoma Historical Society: Dec. 1938), vol. 16, no. 4, 407.
- [S336411] The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians, Angie Debo, (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941), 214.
- [S336411] The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians, Angie Debo, (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941), 222.
- [S336413] Chief Samuel Checote, with Sketches of Chiefs Locher Harjo and Ward Coachman, Chronicles of Oklahoma, John Bartlett Meserve, (Oklahoma Historical Society: Dec. 1938), vol. 16, no. 4, 406.
- [S336371] The Indian Territory, Its Chiefs, Legislators and Leading Men, Harry F. O'Beirne and Edward S. O'Beirne, (St. Louis, Missouri: C. B. Woodward, 1892), 341.