Woman of Ani-Wadi Cherokee (abt. 1714 - abt. 1800)

Born about 1714 in Cherokee Nation (East)

Descendants

Died about 1800 at about age 86 in Cherokee Nation

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Biography

This woman of the Ani Wadi (Paint clan) was probably born in the early 1700s in the Cherokee Nation. Her clan is not certain, but researcher James Hicks believes that it is correct based on what is known of the clans of descendants. Some sites on the Internet list this woman's name as Wurteh or Nancy, but her name is actually not known.

Some have argued that she was the wife of Great Eagle (Willenawah),^{[citation needed]} and while he was a real, documented person, there is no documentation of either a wife or children for him. There is no evidence that she was married to or had children by Willenawah/Great Eagle. Each of the children attached and listed here is recorded as a sibling of at least one other child, so we have retained this profile to serve as their shared mother, but there is no evidence of her actual identity, parents, or spouse(s).

Children who, the records indicate, were siblings to each other:

• Gi Yo Sti Ko Yo He Mother of John Watts “His mother was a member of a prominent Cherokee family. She was a sister of Chiefs Old Tassel, Doublehead, and Pumpkin Boy.” ^[1]
• Corn Tassel (see above)
• Doublehead (see above)
• Pumpkin Boy Affiant is the niece of Old Doublehead, and is the only daughter and child of E=yah=chu=tlee, a brother of Doublehead, and Chau=e=u=kah is her mother...." ^[2]
• Sequechee In a letter dated August, 1807, Captain Addison B. Armistead of Hiwassee Garrison specifically mentioned Sequechee as Doublehead's brother. ^[3]
• Nancy or Nance “On June 28, 1812, John Chisholm wrote in a letter: "Lost nearly all my property. 'Two negroes ran away in possesion of big Nance, Doublehead's sister. I have been constantly with Talluhuskee and his party.” ^[4]
• Ocuma Melton ^[5]
• Wah-hatch Cherokee also from the deposition of Catherine Spencer, "the white men asked affiant and her Aunts & ...Wah=hatch a brother of Doublehead to [guarantee] a [loan] …" ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Brown, John P. Old Frontiers. Southern Publishers, Inc. Kingsport, TN. 1938. p. 353
2. ↑ Deposition of Catherine Spencer, National Archives, transcribed by archivist Jerry Clark, Message board post by Jim Hicks, Rootsweb, AMERIND-US-SE-L 2002-12
3. ↑ Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835. National Archives and Records AdministrationRecord Group 75, publication number M208. Fold 3: Cherokee Agency records, 1807, image 268-269
4. ↑ Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee, 1801-1835. National Archives and Records Administration. Record group 75, publication number M208. Fold 3: Cherokee Agency Records1805, p. 354
5. ↑ Walker, Rickey Butch. Doublehead, Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief. Bluewater Publications, Killen, Alabama. 2012.
6. ↑ Deposition of Catherine Spencer, National Archives, transcribed by archivist Jerry Clark, Message board post by Jim Hicks, Rootsweb, AMERIND-US-SE-L 2002-12