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| Emmett Starr Book | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Emmett Starr's book is a genealogy of Cherokee families. He did however provide some narrative and rare historical detail both on the progenitors of his Cherokee genealogy, and on Cherokee history, which to our knowledge cannot be found anywhere else. The following is just a portion of the narrative excerpts from Starr's book: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Ludovic Grant, who was said to have been a Scotchman, in a statement recorded on page 301 of the Charlestown, South Carolina probate court in the book "1754-1754" in a sworn statement of January 12, 1756, says "It is about thirty years since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since" "I speak their language." He married a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair clan. He was among the Cherokees at the same time that Christian Priber and James Adair was in the nation. Grants half breed daughter married William Emory, and Englishman." Page 466. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Captain John Rogers settled at Dardanelle, Arkansas in 1821. He was the last chief of the "Old Settler" Cherokees. He died at Washington in 1846 and is burried in the National Cemetery. The wives of James and John Rogers were sisters." Page 467. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "She (Kingfisher's widow - possibly named Na-ni, who became The Ghi-ga-u)) was described even after she was an old woman as a person of remarkable beauty, poise "with a queenly and commanding presence." Her second husband was Bryan Ward, a White man, a widower, who had located in the Cherokee country as a trader. Ward had brought his son, John, whose deceased mother was a White woman, and John subsequently married Catherine McDaniel, a half-breed Cherokee woman, and is the ancestor of the numerous Ward family, among the Cherokees. Bryan Ward had one daughter; Elizabeth, by The Ghi-ga-u (Beloved Woman of the Cherokees); whose first husband was Brigadier General Joseph Martin and her second husband was ____ Hughes, a trader. Bryan Ward lived only a few years after his marriage to The Ghi-ga-u." Page 468. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "..... there lived in Echota a famous Indian woman named Nancy Ward.....When Nancy Ward found that her people had fallen in with the plans of Stuart and Cameron, she communicated the intelligence to a trader named Issac Thomas and provided him with the means of setting out as an express to warn back the settlers of their danger. Thomas was a man of character and a true American, who has left distinguished descendants in the State of Louisiana. Accompanied by William Fawling, he lost no time in conveying the alarming intelligence to the people on the Wautauga and Holston. His services were afterwards recognized and rewarded by the State of Virginia." Page 470. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "George Lowery was born about 1770. He and his son in law David Brown had finished a Cherokee spelling book in English characters when Sequoyah announced his invention. Lucy Lowery nee Benge was born about 1786. She died on October 10, 1846 and he died on October 20, 1852." Page 470 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "In June 1776, Gragging Canoe, Abraham and Raven; war chiefs of the Cherokees, with about two hundred and fifty warriors each, at the instigation of the British, planned to attack the western settlements. But the effect of these raids were greatly modified by the Ghi-ga-u's timely warning to the settlers. On July 20, 1776, Abraham marched to attack Watauga, in East Tennessee, captured Mrs. Bean, wife of William Bean, the mother of the first white child born in Tennessee. On the return of the war party to the Cherokee Country, Mrs. Bean was condemned by her captures to be burned at the stake. She was conducted to the top of the mound that stood in the center of Tuskeegee, which was located just above the mouth of Tellico or Little Tennessee River, where she was bound to the stake, the fagots were piled around her, but just as the torch was about to be applied, the Ghigau appeared, cut the thongs that bound her and took the captive to her home, where the grateful Mrs. bean taught her how to keep house and make butter." Page 468-469 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "George Harlan, married in County Armaugh, Ireland on September 17, 1678, Elizabeth Duck. Came to America and settled in Chester Co. Pennsylvania in 1687." Page 471 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "John Bowles was the son of a Scotch trader and a full blood Cherokee woman. His father was killed and robbed by two North Carolinians while on his way home from Charlestown with goods for the establishment. His murder was in 1768 when the son was only twelve years of age, but within the next two years the fair complexioned, auburn haired boy had killed both his father's slayers. Bowles settled at Runningwater Town, one of the Chicamauga settlements near Lookout Mountain and at this place he became involved in an altercation with some pioneers who were floating down the Tennessee River and killed all the boatmen;in June 1794. Bowles and his followers now manned the boats and navigated them down to the mouth of St. Francis River in the Spanish Province of Louisiana... Bowles and his followers joined the Cherokees that lived in that location for many years and he became their chief in 1795 a position he held until 1813." Page 473 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Alexander Sanders killed Chief Doublehead in a drunker brawl at Hiwassee Ferry in the summer of 1807. He was captain of the Cherokee allies of General Andrew Jackson in 1814. It is said his name is on the military rolls as Jeremiah." Page 473 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "David Carter born in 1807. Married Jennie Riley, born in 1817. He was elected judge of Tahlequah District in 1841. Elected senator from the same district in 1842. He was justice of the Supreme Court and also Superintendent of Education from 1836 to 1845. Resigned these to become the editor of the Cherokee Advocate, was Chief Justice of the Cherokee Nation from 1851 to 1854 and was later a Supreme Court Justice. He died on February 1, 1867 and his wife died on March 1, 1867." Page 474 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Joseph and Rock Crutchfield were the sons of a full blood Cherokee mother and a white trader whose trading station was near James Vann's residence at Spring Place. Vann and Crutchfield became mixed up in a broil in which the latter was killed. Vann at once adopted the orphan boys and raised them if they were his own and when they were grown equipped them with well improved plantations and gave several slaves to each." Page 475 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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