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© The Oklahoma Leader
August 19, 1915
Submitted by: Mollie Stehno

Cheesie McIntosh

January 27, 1818 ~ 1915

CREEK INDIAN EDUCATOR IS MISSED BY TRIBE

Muskogee, Aug. 12 - Funeral services were held at Checotah over the remains of Cheesie McIntosh, a prominent Creek Indian, who died in Hot Springs. Practically the entire town was in mourning and Indians from all parts of eastern Oklahoma attended the funeral.

McIntosh was prominent in Indian educational work and before Oklahoma was admitted as a state, for years held the place as tribal superintendent. He was prominent in politics in his county. He was an uncompromising Democrat and always stood for clean politics. After statehood he was elected county superintendent of schools, and the past few years practiced law with his son.

During the Sequoyah convention, held in Muskogee in 1905, McIntosh was delegate from his section of the country and took a prominent part in the movement to have a separate state made from the eastern part of Oklahoma.

When the constitutional convention met in Guthrie and the various counties were carved out in what was formerly Indian Territory, the vicinity in which the noted educator lived was called McIntosh County.

Chessie McIntosh was one of the Creeks who came from Georgia. He was born January 27, 1818. He was a highly educated man and his hobby was to educate his people. Although a full blood, he was one of the Indians who stood for progress in all lines.

A widow, Mollie McIntosh, and four sons, Freeland, VanAllen, Newman and Waldo Emerson, survive him. 

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