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his family in
Sulphur Springs, then moved back to Indian Territory after the war. Settling near Muskogee, he resumed farming and ranching, and soon became a significant player in the politics of the Creek Nation. He served in the Creek National Council as clerk of the House of Kings (the Creek equivalent of the Senate) for four years, then as clerk to the Creek Supreme Court. He also acted as executive secretary for three notable principal chiefs,
150:. One source says that James was an Irishman who had previously been an architect or a shipbuilder from Pennsylvania, while Amanda was one-fourth Muscogee. His father died while he was young; he and his mother were required to emigrate to Indian Territory in 1836. His mother married Dr. Owen Davis of
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Samuel was born to James Oliver
Callahan and Amanda (Doyle) Callahan. Amanda Doyle was born in Georgia (part of the Old Creek Nation) to a white man, Nimrod Doyle and a Creek mother, Susannah Islands. Little is known of James, other than that he died in Alabama before the Creek Indians were forced
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Very soon after Samuel left to join the army, a band of marauders invaded his ranch, burning or looting everything valuable they could found. His wife barely escaped discovery and fled to safety in
Sulphur Springs along with a slave nurse, a bag of gold and two small children. Callahan returned to
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Muskogee County, Oklahoma February 17, 1911, where he was buried in Greenhill Cemetery. Just before he died, he was the last living member of the Confederate Congress in Richmond, Virginia. His daughter noted that he was buried wearing his Confederate Army uniform.
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Territory. Amanda married James Callahan when she was 16 years old. The Callahans moved to Alabama, where they had two children, but one died in infancy. Amanda and Samuel, the surviving son, were forced to emigrate from Alabama to
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Callahan remained heavily involved in the governing of the Creek Nation after the Civil War. He was elected to the Creek House of Kings and served from 1868 to 1872. He also served as
Private Secretaries for three Creek Principal Chiefs: Roley McIntosh,
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According to his obituary, Callahan was survived by the following children: J. O. Callahan and K. W. Callahan of
Muskogee; Bent Callahan of Morse, Oklahoma; Mrs. Adair of Little Rock; Mrs. Eva Shaw of Waggoner; and Mrs. H. B. Spaulding of Muskogee.
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Sarah was so terrified by the escape that it would take twenty years before Samuel could persuade her to return to Indian
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Elizabeth Thornberg, daughter of Methodist minister, William Thornberg in Sulphur Springs. They had eight children:Josephine, James Owen, Jane Evylin, Samuel B., Jr.,
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published a list of members of the Confederate Congress in 1864, S. B. Callahan was identified as representing both the Creek and Seminole Nations.
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Congress in Richmond, Virginia, where he would represent both the Creek and Seminole nations as a delegate, beginning May 30, 1864.
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