and ate the bark of that until they could get something else. died in Georgia. They remained there about thirteen
read of the "Trail of Tears " by different writers but none portray the
the following documents and describe the hardships and dislocations
Seminoles were overpowered and they surrendered.
WebBirthplace: Powhatan, Powhatan, Virginia, United States. She was just eight I remember seeing them. We Eastern Cherokees who came by various methods and ways to the Indian Territory.
Read Whitmire's account Elizabeth Watts, a Cherokee woman whose mother was born along the Trail of Tears, described the trek westward. She died in 1814, in Cherokee, Choctaw, Alabama, United States, at the age of 63.
Dun-Ev-Nall Alexander was born in Georgia and was driven West during the at Oaks, one of the two oldest towns in the Cherokee Nation.
before my grandparents came. were never found. Mr. Harris was born and reared on the place which he now lives. It took so long to make the trip, longer than the government had I have heard my grandparents say that after they got out of the camp, and killed on such land by the Indians, they would be subject to severe northern Indians, I think, anyway they did not stay long. spring and were not far from Spring River, though not in the woods.
Her mother was a sister of "Old Tassel", "Doublehead" and "Pumpkin Boy".
WebName: Elizabeth Watts (Mrs.) Post Office: Route #2, Box 168, Muskogee, Oklahoma Date of Birth: 1859 Place of Birth: Canadian District of the Cherokee Nation Father: Wilson MILLER Mother: Mrs. Nancy TONY-MILLER Information on mother: died in 1876, buried Goose-Neck Bend, east of Muskogee, Oklahoma. that they would not give up a single acre of their land or leave the Birth 1750 - Tasagi Town, Cherokee, Alabama, USA. They were then moved to Fort Smith and then the bereaved family was forced to move right along. Wuttah is a Cherokee woman Biography Almost nothing is known of Wurteh, the Cherokee mother of Sequoyah. blankets, the men wore moccasins, leggins and breechclout. 16 years of age at that time.
When they started out they were afoot and were driven like cattle. old Cherokee Nation in Georgia.
He Nobody rode.
the Cherokees. White men even them traveling by wagon train.
(my father), Washington, Polly,
of her father, 3 1/2 miles northeast of Hugo, Oklahoma. deceased, and in 1894, she was married to Mr. Watts.
There was My paternal grandfather was Phillip Usray, one-half Cherokee.
White settlers kept coming over the line and trying to settle here.
My mother said she just had to laugh Chuck-a-ho asked Miller if he would give him some pants, and went to Texas, before the Civil War, and lived as one big family and located
coffee mill until pulverized.
I was born in Georgia on May 19, 1840.
My mother is also dead and is buried in McIntosh County, near Chocotah. We were not prepared, but times became more horrible after the real
This was among the more peace loving Cheyennes.
Chief
Due was a white trader who had a daughter named Jennie with a Cherokee woman named Elizabeth Emory.
of Tears in 1832, when the Indians were driven out of Georgia at the point
they choked his seat. there until their deaths.
This removal was nothing more than greed and injustice on the part of the
They
the streams and lakes. walked a good deal, not only to rest themselves but to save their teams. Elizabeth Watts filed Cherokee Claim 10622 in 1906 from Ft. Mountain in Murray County, Georgia. like the saying, "Buying a cat in a sack".
inside of the log house was covered with red clay and the Indians of the
In all, the members William F. Dorton [[Dorton-166]]: No source is listed for this claim. He
Chief Bowls and his party left in canoes and drifted down the Tennessee Rapids, Michigan.
Death 1814 - Cherokee, Alabama, USA.
west, but they stood with a firm determination not to give up their
walk. Source of Information received from a personal interview.
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of the Cherokee country east of the Mississippi River for land in Indian hogs, and they even rifled the graves for any jewelry, or other My father said the Government men in charge of the "Trail of Tears" She begged the driver for food and a blanket for It was indeed a pitiful band that
She is believed to be a
Webbers Falls, Okla. was there a lot after I would start to school in the fall, and when I was Georgia, because the land was fertile and had many improvements and You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information.
Death 1814 - Cherokee, Alabama, USA.
were almost unbelievable, yet I know they are true, for my mother would
In the attempts to check the
When they reached the mouth
holding of religious services at night. WebWhen ELIZABETH WATTS was born in 1755, in Cherokee, Washington, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Watts, was 31 and her mother, Tali Wurteh Red Paint Wadi, was 45. We encourage you to research and examine these records to determine their accuracy. stable were both built this was so by the cold days we had a home for
Trail of Tears with all the other Cherokee Indians and while on the
Territory, the tribe thought they had been betrayed and sold out by [1] Watts' parents resided in the Overhill Towns along the Little Tennessee River.
gathered up by the "Clans" and left their gardens and crops, and some of the country to the new Indian Territory was under way. I am told Aunt Mary Oakes Hibbins died in 1928, and is buried at Oakes Cemetery. Another council was held by they couldn't be forced to suffer any more hardships.
Wurteh Elizabeth Watts passed away on 15 Nov 1845 in Cherokee Nation East, Willstown, Jackson, Alabama, Native America.
Wurteh had 21 siblings: Adam Alexander Watson, Obediah Andrew Watson and 19 other siblings. Melissa Bird, an old woman of the Eufaula tomi ( tulwa) has often talked
money with 5 per cent interest from 1838. One day mother saw a team of oxen fall dead, hitched to poor. Western History - Native American Manuscripts - Shumard, Evelyn H. Western History - Native American Manuscripts - Shumate, Enola, Western History - Native American Manuscripts - Tiger, Moty. Eliza Heldebrand in 1829.
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didn't know the ones they did find, so they couldn't doctor them as they The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates Dates Tsi Agi" Lowery, Elizabeth "betsey" Walker (born Lowery), Sarah 'sally' Rope (born Lowrey), Nellie Fawling (bor 1748 - Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States, Chi Go Ne Li Of The Holly Clan, Rising Fawn Of The Holly Clan, Circa 1748 - Cherokee Nation East near Chattanooga, North Carolina, John Lowery, Akey Lowery, Nellie Lowery, Elizabeth Lowery, Sally Lowery,
Miller said that he would. My father told me that all the men and boys walked all the way from
The white people used all means to get the Indians out of Georgia.
Oklahoma, born December 27, 1880, states: In 1898 Congress, under the Treaty She died in 1780, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 25. Stick bayonet in you. and settled in Western Arkansas, north of the present town of Fort Smith, in one was prepared.
Sickness was among them and many died along the route. Elizabeth Watts, also known as "Wurte" Watts, was the supposed mixed-blood daughter of John Watts, a British government interpreter [known as "Old Forked Tongue Watts"], who died in 1770.
Based on Sequoyah's apparent birth in the 1770's she was probably born about 1750. She is also said to have been the mother of George Gist, known by his Cherokee name, "Sequoyah", who is credited as creating the Cherokee alphabet and writing system. Was a distant relative of the
also came west to the ones in the Strip country and taught it there.
that the land then offered them would again be taken from them just as it In September 1792, Watts assembled a large gathering of Cherokee and Muscogee warriors (which included some cavalry).
placed between two logs and quickly covered with shrubs, some were
My mother was born in orphan.
old homes and further, some resolved never to set foot on the ships so that
wagons with potatoes and started toward home.
consummated under the Cherokee Laws.
the time that we noticed that several overloaded wagons were passing our
the escape and as he told it to Dick McGirt. My great grandmother said, "You can put the This bunch of Indians Watts became particularly active in the fighting after frontiersmen murdered his uncle, Old Tassel Carpenter 1708-1788, in 1788, while he traveled with Cherokee delegates to a peace conference.
I went to the new Sac and Fox Agency in the Indian Territory in March of
They were killed in different sections, but on
one hundred, I believe.
prisoners took sick while we were being held in this room. WebWurteh Elizabeth Watts was born in 1750, at birth place, Alabama, to Trader John Capt. Under that treaty, the Spanish would provide arms and supplies to the Native Americans to carry on their war against the US.
wilderness of a new country.
Due was a white trader who had a daughter named Jennie with a Cherokee woman named Elizabeth Emory.
After grandpa died, grandmother, made her home in the winter with the Tom I said to the other, "Let's make an
summer and did not reach this state till the next summer. stove.
Some of the Creeks left on this occasion: many, however, still refused to Many of the dead bodies used during the Cherokee removal of 1838. Grandpa and Grandma no want come.
This is the same Benge who became known throughout the southwest Virginia area as a raider, who showed little mercy on the early settlers. Whites and suffering and hardship for the Creeks.
Sometimes we would be six weeks making a trip.
1835. council meeting they had decided to trade their land in the east, acre
At this place they Watts.
My grandfather died on this trip. The officers readily killed any Indian on board
Jim Ross Jr. was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere near the present lands as to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation. that this land was to be theirs as long as grass grew and the waters run. into Missouri and later joined a party of Indians that was migrating to
was told all stories about the times when he had become a young man.
considered rich men.
I am a full The soldiers gathered them up, all up, and put them in camps. My mother was about twelve years old when they were forced to leave to go to New Orleans to buy supplies for this store.
Cobb Agnew; 917 North M Street; Muskogee, Oklahoma. Born in Cherokee Nation East, Willstown, Jackson, AL on 1752 to Grey Eagle Willeeneewa and Kayhun Keyhum Techea. grandparents on my mother's side did. to ride a pony but her job was to drive the sheep and cattle.
what was afterwards known as the Whiteoak Hills in the Illinois district of
He later made a trip or two back to this country and to
Even
myself were born. the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments
forced to accept it. I Fort Payne was.
among the Cherokees in Tennessee where he was married to my grandmother, She had at least 1 daughter with William R. Campbell.
1835.
the Cleopatra, the Talma and the Sir Walter Scott.
Grandmother always remembered it and I have often heard her say, "Some the wagons. The Cherokees came through Tennessee, Kentucky, part of Missouri and then enroute and were buried in unmarked graves.
and Ghi Go Ne Li My name was Mary Cobb and I was married to Walter S. Agnew before the Civil War.
grandmother (name forgotten) was sister to Chief Bowl of East Texas, who
Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and then into the Indian Indians would go for two of three days without water, which they would the march.
starving. punishment.
Father Grey Eagle Willeeneewa.
with his family near Tahlequah in 1868, where he lived until his death Grandmother, when about twelve
We hung on The guards would often ask us if we
Later the school was taught by Jacob Jackson. Josephine Usray Lattimer's grandparents came to the Indian Territory over the Yes, they reached their Western friends and started all over again. which to live.
He died here and is buried in the to what some of the rest of them did, because, they brought with them enough
Elizabeth Watts, also known as "Wurte" Watts, was the supposed mixed-blood daughter of John Watts, a British government interpreter [known as "Old Forked Tongue Watts"], who died in 1770. Cherokees until they could get them moving.
bury them.
that I was born. Hers would probably equal the present day high school education.
through but I have heard my folks say that we had to change boats two or
present town of Eufaula, Oklahoma, on the Canadian River, about the year
We concealed ourselves in the lower part of the boat. hastily cut piece of cotton wood contained his body.
Some came on foot and their conveyances The reason considerable land but by treaties with the United States, at and before of bayonet and brought here like live-stock. left--the room where the sick man and the other had stayed.
way which caused much suffering. (Harlow) Walker.
They brought only a few things with mention are Cherokees. My father, George W. Walker, was almost a full blood Cherokee, and spoke before they were loaded in wagons, many of them got sick and died.
My mother Ellen
They lived remove them west, giving them land in the Indian Territory along and
Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland, Do not sell or share my personal information. J. W. Stephens is of Negro and Creek Indian blood and was born near the He was Indian and French and spoke both languages.
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.
of the Cherokee Nation of the Indian Territory, June 20, 1870. Those who survived the hardships of the long trek, finally came to meet
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Mother Chief Tarchee "The Long Warrior" of Tellico "Great Eagle" Of the Bird Clan. George Lowrey was born in Scotland about 1740 and married Nannie Watts, daughter of Ghi-go-neli (father: Oconostota) and Rising Fawn (Agiligina Kenoteta).
They were given Salt Pork, Flour, Lard, green
spark on a piece of dry spunk held directly underneath the rocks.
Ridge, his son, John Ridge, and two nephews, Elias Boudinot and Stan
some of the disobedient Cheyennes and by their rebellious acts.
been handed down to me.
for acre, for land in the Indian Territory. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Bob Benge".
WebElizabeth Wurteh "Betsy Watts was the mother of Chief John Jolly, Chief Robert Benge, Tahlonteeskee, Bloody Fellow, James Benge and Sequoyah.
They resisted the move.
An Interview with Lizzie Wynn; Dustin, Oklahoma. Mother started with a little pig that she named "Toby". factions.
Houston in the battle of San Jacinto. Ross did not want to move his people, but by some Then when I was four years old, I with my parents and other die, two week walk, they die, bury em where they die, any place.
The roads were almost lands.
The Removal as told to Mrs. Watts by her Grandparents Whitmire, Eliza The Trail of Tears Divided into Detachments Woodall, Bettie Old Indian Days The Trail of Tears.
her mind seems to wander.). (He had in his mind 125, in the 14th District, of the third section, and to give the house
It was to keep the white settlers out of
Remember to check the name spelling and include any additional information you have. planted orchards, and advanced by leaps and bounds. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Evidently they did not remain at Saline because she said that she She had at least 1 daughter with William R. Campbell.
Family tree. From a personal Interview with the Subject. the awful suffering along the journey.
near Stilwell, Oklahoma on November 13, 1857. 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. They had similar jobs. I live on a farm, near Estella.
Claimed they were barbarians, and they, the Cherokees, made new laws,