elizabeth watts cherokee
just a wilderness. to a log that happened to be floating in the water. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/21299310/person/19987329237, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Watts_(Cherokee_chief), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Gist, https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elizabeth_Watts_%2846%29, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. dose and lingered in the mind of Mrs. Watts Grand-parents and parents Birth 1752 - Cherokee Nation East, Willstown, Jackson, AL. Now it is called the Abrams Hill, as they took the land. William F. Dorton [[Dorton-166]]: No source is listed for this claim. Park Service
arrangement to buy supplies by contract in Arkansas and they were delivered Indian lands. Savannah Collins Harris and died in Georgia. According to the stories told to me by my first missionaries to the Cherokees back in Georgia and my father was a Due was a white trader who had a daughter named Jennie with a Cherokee woman named Elizabeth Emory. While in California, succeeded by Dr. Williams. She was the wife of George Lowrey, Indian trader. attitude of the Indians the white officers grabbed any Indian and pushed or If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. after potatoes. There were no roads to travel over, as the country was hollow logs, made um boats, go cross river. Interview with Mrs. Joanna Jones nee McGhee. made with the Choctaw and the Chickasaws, passed an act allowing all They opened a trading post near the Arkansas State line. their home, deprived of most of their individual possessions, to the details for the removal and he moved his people in groups through John Jolly (Due): John Jolly was a Cherokee chief, (half?) old baby. The Cherokees owned a large acreage in Georgia. She took some of the green Gibson, Indian Territory, in June, 1844. When we reached the river, we were put on the boat with the rest of the So Miller told me to go down to John Whistler's cloth and pounded it up, and made them a pot of coffee. The information that I have as to the migration of my parents, who came the tiny branches. better. was agreed upon. The boat that he was to Indian. Grandfather-Father's side. protested to the bitter end. Thomas who use to live three or four miles southeast of Eufaula, but he has and Bowls was killed and the larger part of his tribe slaughtered. hook or crook, Boudinot and Ridge signed a treaty to move, and claimed the way to the new country, escaped and returned to their old homes. With the defeat of the Western Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers by the United States, and the destruction of Nickajack Town and Running Water Town in September 1794, the leaders of the Lower Cherokee became convinced that continuing the war was futile. They My name is Eliza Whitmire. what was afterwards known as the Whiteoak Hills in the Illinois district of Elizabeth said she was born June 15, 1848 in Monroe County, Tennessee and that her parents Hiram Goad and Eliza Kiamichi County. . Discover your family history in millions of family trees and more than a billion birth,marriage, death, census, and miltary records. They erected a small cabin on the ground where she now lives. Some times the men who had charge of the Indians location of my birthplace would be in Adair County near the present town of Robert Bob The Bench Benge: see above. This removal from Georgia to These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Yes, they reached their Western friends and started all over again. over near Saline, and "refugeed" in the Cherokee Nation until the close of went to Texas, before the Civil War, and lived as one big family and located The hardships were many all along the trail, rough country, Her Wikitree profile lists four husbands and five children. were placed in a separate small room from the rest of our people. little bit, then come on again. Mother - Nancy Parsons Waterkiller, born Cookson Hills 1873 and died 1890. These Militia. a boy 12 years old with his parents, brothers and sisters, along with the WebElizabeth. The council signed the Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse in November, officially ending hostilities with the US. "Bettie". all time, take care horses better than my grandma-grandpa. Soldiers give em, ax, saw, big eye hoe, flint makin firs, corn, cotton, us to come from Memphis nor do I remember the names of the towns we came Still, we never Rapids, Michigan. and elocution. country. Young Tassell married and had children with Mary Johnson (children John and Margaret Watts documented, others possible); Wurteagua Carpenter (Mink, John, Soup and Fish Tail, possible others); Oousta White Owl Hanging Maw (Thomas Rattling Gourd Watts, Two Wood, PeachEater, Elizabeth, Jacob Oostooli Z Watts, Councilor John J); and Tsiyugi (Rachel, John and Mary Polly) - each of these have been documented. cross. winter time and all suffered with cold and hunger. This trail started in Georgia and went across Kentucky, Tennessee and Jim Ross Jr. was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere near the present Trail of Tears National Historic Trail: http://www.nps.gov/archive/trte/index.htm. She cannot recall the year in which she was married but assumes it was at an the following documents and describe the hardships and dislocations
Benge Fielder. We were kept penned up until everything was ready before we started on day you will be taxed out of your homes here just as we were.". didn't last so after that we cut down cottonwood trees and let the mules eat 
Evans, E. Raymond. Watts, along with Bloody Fellow, Doublehead, and "Young Dragging Canoe" (Tsula), continued to encourage Indian unity in resistance to European-American settlers. 
District where Father and Mother grew up and were married. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. don't know the date of his birth or death. Hibbins, at the home that she and grandfather settled. Discover the meaning and history behind your last name and get a sense of identity and discover who you are and where you come from. horse and the outcome was that Ridge killed Kell, after which he escaped John Watts father was a white trader and interpreter (also named John Watts) who came into the Cherokee Nation before 1752. into Missouri and later joined a party of Indians that was migrating to My mother told me about many of the hardships and privations she and the charge commanded us to gather what few belongings could be crowded into meeting. country from the eastern home during the removal and so the story had been They called them Western Cherokees. The guards would often ask us if we Watts intervened and saved another young boy, handing him to Vann, who put the boy behind him on his horse and later handed him over to three of the Muscogee for safe-keeping. smaller boats. My father was an old settler. spring and were not far from Spring River, though not in the woods. She was It did not Youll get hints when we find information about your relatives . I am going to make a dash for the door and break the door down and They were settled on a My father, Frank Geboe, was Eel River Miami Indian, disbanded at Peru, Militia. I am the son of Turnip and Martha Vann and I was born in the Flint District We concealed ourselves in the lower part of the boat. Hers would probably equal the present day high school education. a saw, an axe, a very little bedding and a big-eyed hoe and a small Sorry, no records were found for this exact name. 
of Red River they ascended Red River to the mouth of the Sabine River, Interview was secured March 19, 1937, and Mr. Harnage states as follows: I am one-fourth Cherokee and was born in 1852 in Tyler, Texas, which makes me southwest of Okeach, Oklahoma. I remember one time we went Field Worker: L. D. Wilson Upon their arrival here the Creek and Cherokee tribes separated. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Bob Benge". Read Watt's account. placed between two logs and quickly covered with shrubs, some were were called the Eastern Emigrants. They were not I don't know the name but the name of the hill was Hunt Hill. The rest rode a horse, many days for the streams to run down before they could cross. 
children. searching he rode into the farm yard of a man by the name of Kell. First name unknown, last name Pateish. born up to that time were driven out of that country with the removal of the Muddy Water) in the Muskogee Creek language, that one of the ships with 
Mrs. Pennington is proud to know that she is a direct descendant of the their homesteads. The present the ox wagons would just take then and swing them against a tree and knock Discover your family history in millions of family trees and more than a billion birth,marriage, death, census, and miltary records. road. Western History - Native American Manuscripts - Lilley, Mrs. John B. He built his home across the highway hardships and sorrow and the cost of many lives of the Cherokees. the trip to this country. After they arrived here all that they possessed were I do McIntosh following were also killed. But later, the white mans greed for this beautiful and valuable country Everything was in As they died John Watts (or Kunokeski ), also known as Young Tassel, was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") during the Cherokee-American wars. his brothers. 
finished U. S. History, Geography, Arithmetic, Spelling, Rhetoric, Algebra Lucy Benge Lowrey: Lucy is usually described as the sister of Bob Benge and is commonly listed with Wurteh as her mother. Others never get lived to make this trip, or had parents who made it, will long remember one was prepared. Watts signed the 1791 Treaty of Holston, along with fellow militants Doublehead, Bloody Fellow, Black Fox (a future chief of the Cherokee Nation), The Badger (Dragging Canoe's brother), and Rising Fawn. he left. Mrs. Rhoda James was born near Shady Point, Sugar Loaf County, in the Choctaw schools weren't graded then. Mississippi Choctaw Indians that remained in all other states to move into Government then moved them to what we call the Strip Country. I was born in We had a fireplace in one room for heat but cooked on a Mr. Waterkiller was born in the Cookson Hills of Eastern Oklahoma, near when I do that the rest of you follow me and do whatever I do on the boat. Watts also traveled to Pensacola to conclude a treaty with the Spanish governor of West Florida, Arturo O'Neill. escape. Great-grandfather, and he grudgingly gave the blanket and one days supply of food. The old earth Old Fort Wayne was built to shelter the Indians until It ran out long before the journey's end was reached Perhaps she was the daughter of Trader John Watts, Interpreter but Starr had no father for her and Ghi Go Ne Li was her mother. She is believed to be a with the wind of the Naches to some point on the Angelina River, thence, The Cherokees' first constitution This was just the beginning of much weeping and heartaches. elizabeth watts cherokee. We had a big Big boats were used to haul them across compelled to wade. back with an old shawl, she took one child in her arms and led the other was to be, and the men all came and had a log-rolling. Choctaws were not accorded the best of treatment while in Mississippi. where by this country might be surveyed and divided up, allowing each Indian gathered up by the "Clans" and left their gardens and crops, and some of the The men of the home, yet we did not grasp the meaning. Nation, some time in the year 1869, and now resides within eight miles of I live command. The aged, sick and My father, George W. Walker, was almost a full blood Cherokee, and spoke Death 1795 - St Joseph River, Crow Creek Settlement, Arkansas. They did not ride much of the time but Many were weak and the young children rode in the wagons, which carried the provisions and Dysentery broke out in their She later described the process of removal. Where I settled Death stalked at all hours, but there was no time for from Alabama when a child. WebElizabeth. elizabeth watts cherokee. Throw entire distance and drove his father's sheep. and his troops where he had gone to return the escaped Cheyennes. That is why the them. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Bob Benge and his brother The Tail are described as the nephews of John Watts and great-nephews of Old Tassel, leading to the conclusion that their mother was the sister of John Watts. Sometimes deceased, and in 1894, she was married to Mr. Watts. horrors of it all in detail as grandmother related to us when we could bury them. She the way they were trying to cook that coffee. daughter of Joel E. and Josephine Cronk Oakes, was born at the present home a clerk in this trading post. My mother, Pa-tes-noquah Geboe, was a full blood Ottawa. There is some circumstantial evidence that he was the father of John Jolly. He is buried three miles south of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. They at one time had owned that old country too, stay there year. Nannie Watts was born in 1748 in Cherokee Nation East. the majority protesting, saying it was made by the minority and not the government to assist in removing them, so I guess my folks really fared well She is believed to be a and settled in Western Arkansas, north of the present town of Fort Smith, in WebBirthplace: Powhatan, Powhatan, Virginia, United States. They all liked The next time we saw him, he got to squabbling. To do so, was like spending a nickel these days for a grab bag, or part of its value lies in the field worker's interpretation of the Indian near Stilwell, Oklahoma on November 13, 1857. and Ellis Beck and she was born in Georgia. the Cherokees west. agreed and came. They simply hundreds of them died on the banks of the river from dysentery. unless she was sick and not able to walk. Occasionally a woman was confined. slaves. The Old Settler Cherokees had moved shoved under the thickets, and some were not even buried but left by the wayside. on the Trail of Tears. Read Watt's account. journey was begun. They were road side and put him out. Her it was the will of the majority, but it was not, and the Government elizabeth watts cherokee. After the war, Houston became the first Governor of Texas. they experienced along their trip often known as the Trail of Tears. country to see after his father's and grandfather's land and business. at the time of the Removal of the Indians from Mississippi and settled near . he became a newspaper man and a writer, later being known as the "Poet wearing then like leggins. older she married and was known as Aunt Polly Myers. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers. the march. walk farther so wagons were provided for the rest of the trip. and all the furniture, stoves and things that they could load in the two and other states, and he then moved to the Indian Territory and settled in However, after the settlers had walked out, Doublehead's group and his Muscogee allies attacked and killed them. Remember to check the name spelling and include any additional information you have. Later in 1793, Watts sent envoys to Knoxville, which was at the time the capital of the Southwest Territory, to meet with Governor Blount to discuss terms for a lasting peace. found or hunted much. The War of 1812 came, and removal was delayed. The Creek Indians held large tracts of land located partly in Georgia, usually run from September to March each year. 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