Charles Hobart Heald

The subject of our  sketch  is Charles Heald, the namesake of Healdton, OK.

Charles Hobart Heald was born at Skullyville, Choctaw Nation, March 17, 1843, his parents having originally removed from Massachusetts to the Indian Territory some time previous to his birth. 

In 1848 he removed to New Orleans, La., and after completing his education in the East, Charles returned to the Nation in 1860.  The following year he was married to Eliza Guy, daughter of W. R. Guy, and sister to Governor W. M. Guy.

Mr. Heald’s wife died in 1887 and of a family of ten children only five are living.  (Eliza Heald was buried in the Old Mill Creek cemetery on the Penner Ranch southeast of Sulphur.  When the course of Mill Creek began to erode the old graveyard, many of the interred were removed to other cemeteries.  In 1992, Eliza was disinterred and removed to the Boggy Depot cemetery.)

He has lived at Boggy Depot, Mill Creek and is now located at Healdton, I.T.

Mr. Heald was a personal friend and great admirer of Gov. Cyrus Harris and also of Gen. D. H. Cooper.  The subject of this sketch has been through the Indian wars: first with the Chickasaw Battalion and with the Second Choctaws.  He has held the office of county clerk and represented his county in the legislature.

Mr. Heald is now engaged in farming in order to be home with his motherless children.  No white citizen is more universally respected than C. H. Heald.

Contributed by Dennis Muncrief, September 2003.