Sasakwa

Seminole County · on OK-56, two miles west of Sasakwa

Home of Governor John F. Brown, who was principal Chief of the Seminole Nation for 34 years, succeeding his father-in-law Chief John Jumper. Jumper served as a colonel in the Seminole Mounted Volunteers for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Brown served as a lieutenant under Chief Jumper. Each in turn was pastor of Spring Baptist Church, which was founded near this marker’s location in 1850 by Baptists.

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