TANDY C. WALKER - Choctaw and Chickasaw
[Information for Tandy C. Walker is taken from
the book "Leaders and Leading Men of the Indian Territory,
Choctaw and Chickasaw", by H. F. O’Beirne, vol. 1. Publisher
is: American Publishers’ Association, Chicago, IL, printed
in the year 1891.
Tandy C. Walker (Chickasaw and Choctaw) page 316]
This gentleman was born in July, 1840, in Sans Bois County, and
is a son of Louis Walker, a Choctaw, and Mary Cheadle,
a half-breed Chickasaw. He was educated at Skullyville, and moved
to South Canadian in 1858. At the opening of the war he joined Col.
Carroll’s regiment in Arkansas and fought at Wilson’s
Creek and other engagements; after which he acted as a scout for
Col. Cooper. In 1863 he was elected Captain and Provost Marshall
for Capital General Hineman, and toward the close of the
war fell back among the refugees on Red River. In 1865 he married
Isabella Cochran, the daughter of Robert L. Cochran,
was delegated to the Treaty of Amnesty at Fort Smith. While at Canadian
in 1874 he was elected Sheriff to fill an unexpired term. In 1877
he was elected Representative of his county in the Choctaw Council,
and shortly afterward, in company with Robert Reams, J.J.
McAlester, Bill Pursley, and others got in to trouble
with Gov. Cole, but finally carried esq.; after which, in
company with Sabe Love and others, he the point at issue.
In 1879 owing to a personal difficulty with John Morrison,
which ended in a tragedy, Tandy left Canadian and settle close to
Stonewall, where in 1881, he was appointed Captain of Militia by
Gov. Overton. In 1886 he was elected to the Chickasaw Senate,
and after the expiration of his term acted as National Permit Collector
till 1890.
The Subject of this sketch was a strong supporter of Gov. Wm.
Byrd till his party disfranchised the white man, after which,
not seeing his way clearly to the final result of this action, he
rose boldly and walked out of the ring. Whether he was right or
wrong remains to be proven.
Mr. Walker has a fine farm and a large stock of cattle. His family
is nine in number- Robert, Theodore, Annie,
Jack, Centennial, Cornelius, Ida, Grover,
and Minnie.
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