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Name of Judge
Term of Service
District
Not Known
1855
Cooweescoowee
Charles Coody Rogers
1857
John Lucien Brown
Jackson Tyner
1861
Clement Vann Rogers
1877
Alexander McCoy Rider
1879
James Christopher McCoy
1881
John Anthony Foreman
1883
John Gunter Scrimsher
1893
Daniel Ross Hicks
1867 & 1869
1871,1873 & 1875
Walter Adair Starr
1885, 1887, 1889 &1891
1895 & 1897
Benjamin Wisner
1841
Delaware
James Kill
1843
James V. Hilderbrand
1845
David Kell
1847
William Cofee Woodall
1871
Unknown
1873
Isaac Turner
1875
Tomas Mitchell Buffington
1889
Born on October 19, 1855. Attended tribal schools and began farming. He was elected Principal chief in 1899. DC Gideon, Indian Territory, Descriptive Biographical and Genealogical.
Dudley H. Tucker
1891
Joseph Lynch Ward
Elian Mcleod Landrum
1895
James Bonaparte Woodall
1897
Peter
1849 & 1851
George Owen
1853 & 1855
Luther Rice
1857 & 1859
Elowie Butler
Robert Fletcher Wyley
1877,1879, & 1881 & 1883
1885&1887
Coffee Blackbird
Saline
He served as Sheriff of Saline District, a representative in the National Council, a senator and a district judge.
George Washington Scraper
Carter Daniel Markham
Born the son of Leroy and Elizabeth West Markham on May 9 1845. During the Civil war, his family took refuge in the Choctaw Nation, and he served in the Cherokee cavalry under Stand Watie. He married Mary Halfacre and Eliza Matthews. Markham was elected judge if Saline District in 1884 but was primarily a business man. He died in 1925. Mayes county historical society. Highlight of Mayes county.
Henry Clay Ross
1885
Born in the Cherokee Nation on November 2, 1848. The son of Lewis and Margaret Hilderband Ross. Educated in Mission Schools. Cherokee Nation and Nazareth Hall, North Hampton County Pennsylvania. In 1866 he returned to the Cherokee Nation and settled in Saline District. He married Elizabeth Campbell Rupe and Josephine Pettit daughter of Andrew Pettit. Ross died in 1905. Mayes Historical Society. Highlights of Mayes County.
George Feeling
1888
Served out the term of Coffee Blackbird.
David Welch Ragsdale
Born in 1831 and died in 1912. He was elected judge of the Saline District for one term. Ragsdale. Was appointed postmaster at Rose in 1892. He was later elected to a term as Senator from Saline. When he died the Vinita Chieftain called him "one of the pioneer citizens the country.” He is Buried at Elm Grove Cemetery. See George W. Shirk, "First Post offices within Boundaries of Oklahoma." Chronicles of Oklahoma 26 (summer 48) 225; Vinita Chieftain September, 20, 1912.
Edward Sylvester Adair
Son of Andrew & Annie Vann Adair, married Rebecca Baugh. A merchant at Chouteau, he began his career at Saline District as Sheriff in 1889, served a number of years as clerk and served one term as Judge. During the Later years of the century he operated a ferry across the Grand River. See Mayes County Historical Society. Historical Highlights of Mayes County.
Bird Doublehead
1843 &1845
David Rowe
1855 &1857
Charles Wickliff
First term as judge of Saline was District was in 1877-1879. He was re-elected as judge ten years later. He took office between February and May of 1889. He died a few months later at age 75. He is buried in Wickliff Cemetery.
Saturday Vann
1871 suspended
1887 died
1888 died
Served previously in 1867 &1869
1891, 1893 &1895
Served previously in 1885
Redbird Sixkiller
6/6/1872
Joseph McMinn Starr
Goingsnake
John Foster
Benjamin Vann
Eli Murphy
1849
E.G. Smith
1851
1853
John D. Paxton
Johnson Reese
Wiley Glover Thornton
1869
Henry Crittenden
Johnson Whitmire
Nelson Terrapin
Jesse Redbird
John Vigil McPherson
1887
Edward D. Foreman
Adam Lacey
John R. Crittenden
John W. Holland
1896
Joseph Smallwood
Pleasant H. Holland
1993
Moses Downing
1843 died
Johnson Robbins
1859 & 1867
James Lafayette Bigby
1879, 1881, & 1883