Deputy Sheriff Sequoyah Houston

Sequoyah Houston

Deputy Sheriff Sequoyah Houston was shot and killed in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) while riding with a posse to arrest members of an outlaw gang.

The posse located the gang at The Halfway House on Fourteen Mile Creek near present-day Hulbert (halfway between Tahlequah and Wagoner).

One of the suspects was shot and wounded and a second was later hung for the murder of Guard Lawrence Keating of the United States Marshals Service. Guard Keating was murdered on July 26th, 1895, during an escape attempt from Fort Smith Prison in Arkansas.

Deputy Houston was survived by his wife and two children and is buried in Blue Springs Cemetery, Gideon, Cherokee County, Oklahoma.