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Cherokee Indians from Georgia -T-

Tahchee, or Dutch, Cherokee scout.

Tah-ka-ha-kee. A letter published in the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate, dated Wednesday, March 4, 1829. " COOSA RIVER, IN TURKEY TOWN. C.N. 9th February, 1829. TO THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE. The undersigned in behalf of a long meeting, composed of the Citizens of Turkey Town, take the liberty of addressing you through the public journal of our Nation, on the subject of emigration to the west, to which the United States have their attention. The view we take of this measure, and the sentiments will take occasion to express, will be simple and plain, founded on truth as handed down to us by our ancestors. Limited in knowledge and possessing but a small share of experience, our apology in this attempt is in the interest we feel in everything that concerns the well being of our Nation. Our ancestors settled in this place at a period not now in our recollection. Here was sacred ground, and on this spot the Council-fire blazed with lustre, and here were the dwellings and seats of Kings and our beloved Chief!-- We speak of days when we lived in the hunter's state, and when our feet were swift in the track of game. General Washington, after having smoked the pipe of peace with our Chiefs, sent us word to discontiued the pusuit of vagrant habits and adopt those more susbstantial and become cultivators of the soil. His successors pursued, in regard to us, the same policy, and sent to us the same Talk from time to time -- that as game was precarious and liable to destruction, the bosom of the earth afforded means of subsistence, both infinite and inexhaustible. But time was not allowed us to experience the blessing of putting this recommendation to practice by interested wicked white men, who lived near to us, and who esteemed us a nuisance, because the Great Spirit had placed our habitations in a desirable County, and because they themselves had crossed the Big Water (the Ocean) and had become our neighbors. The bitter cup of adversity was filled to us on every side, by our ememies. Our safety was often endangered by intrigue and misreprensation of our character to the General Government; and it was not mental or natural disability that opposed itself to our advancement in civilization, but obstacles place in our way to reach it. The Indians were represented as incapable of learning the arts of cilivized life, and at the same time treated in in most uncivil manner. They were savagely revegenful, because they had the spirit to resent the murder of their friends & relations. They were rogues and thieves, because, not knowing the mother of legal processes to to obtain justice, and if they did, their oath decreed to non-availing, they retaliated in the same way. They were drunkards, because intoxicating liquors were introduced among them. They were disinclined to the study of books, because of some few superficially educated under bad instruction had betrayed their countrymen and had set bad examples. They were stubborn, because they loved the land that had been endeared to them as an inheritance of their fathers. This flood of inconsistency raged with violence over the heads of our Chiefs & swept with its waves, from under their feet, the earth, for which they had struggled for ages past. In this way our territory diminished, and our inheritance was circumbscribed to its present bounds. Our Chief displaced wonderful forbearance in this trials, and maintained the faith of treaties, with the United States, whose chief magistrate also exercised the spirit of paternal affection, and adhered to his engagements as pledged to us by treaties. With caution have we passed the strong shoals of opposition, and its mingled cruelties to the light of civiliztion. The sun has arise in our moral horizon is fast advancing to its meridan. We hail it with joy! Although a part of our nation have detached themselves from us, to follow the chase, in the western wilds, and we are invited to retrograte to savageism, with strong talks and inducements as bribes our appetite for our present enjoyments if is too strong to relinquish them because we have tasted their sweets and are contented. We have noticed the ancient ground of complaint founded on the ignorance of our ancestors and their fondness of the chase, and for the purposes of agriculture as having in possession too much land for their numbers. What is the language of objection at this time? The case is reversed, and we are now assaulted with menaces of expulsuion because we have unexpectedly become civilized and because we have formed and organized a constitutional government. It is too much for us now to be honest and virtuous and industrious because then are we capable of aspiring to the calls of Christians and Politicians which renders our attachment to the soil more strong and therefore more difficult to defend us of the possession. Disappointment inflicts on the mind of the avaricious whiteman; the mortification of delay, or the probability of the intended victim's excape from the snares laid for its destruction. It remains for us in this situation of the question, to act as free agents in choosing for ourselves to walk in the straight forward path of the impartial recommendations of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, as most congenial to our feelings and knowledge of the means calcaluated to promote our happiness. We hereby individually set our faces to the rising sun and turn our backs to its setting. As our ancestors revered the sepulchral monuments of the noble dead, we cherish the sacred of their repose as they lie under hillocks of clay, that cover them from our sight. If the country, to which we are directed to go is desirable and well watered, why is it so long a wilderness and a wasteland and uninhabited by respectable white people whose enterprise ere this, would have attended them to monopolize it from the poor and unfortunate of their fellow citizens as they have hitherto done? From correct information we have formed a bad opinion of the western country beyond the Mississippi. But if report was favorable to the fertility of the soil, if the running streams were as transparent as crystal, and silver fish abounded in their element in profusion we should still adhere to the purposes of spending the remnant of our lives on the soil that gave us birth and rendered deer from the nourishment we receive from its bosom. We take the liberty of acknowledging our obligations to Major Ridge for his attendance at our meeting and for an eloquent speech suitable for the occasion which he delivered at our request. MONEY HUNTER, his x mark. TAH-KA-HA-KEE, his x mark. SCATTERED, his x mark. KUNG-WAS-SOO-LAS-KEE, his x mk. KILLER, his mark. RICHD. RATLIFF, jr. his x mark. CRYING SNAKE, his x mark. RESURRECTION, his x mark. FOLLOWER, his x mark. Ta-lah-te-yah. SEE Walkingstick.

Tal-on-tee-skee, Chief of the Old Settlers (Western Cherokees) and his brother John Jolly, went to Arkansas after he and Doublehead took bribes from the U S government. This is said to be one of the reasons that Major Ridge a cousin and companion to Doublehead assassinated him. After Doublehead’s execution, Tal-on-tee-skee who was somewhat related Doublehead and his brother-in-law, decided he would be better off leaving the Cherokee Nation.h. Tal-on-tee-skee settled on the White and St. Francis rivers, what is now known as the N E Arkansas in about 1810.

Ta-car-sen-na, signed his name to a Treaty dated December 11 December, 1821 concerning the boundary "run by Gen. Wm. Mc'Intosh and Samuel Hawkins, commissioners duly authorized by their nation, and Thomas Pettit, and John Beamer, authorized commissioners of the Cherokee nation, is forever hereafter acknowledged by both nations to be permanent." Published in the Cherokee Phoenix dated November 11, 1829.

Tarvin, Alvin O. OBITUARY. "Died- At this place, 25th ult. of the croop [sic], ALVIN O. TARVIN, an only child of Wm. J. and Casandra A. Tarvin, aged two years five months and twenty two days. He was a child of uncommon promise, remarkably forward for one of his age. By his death, his parents who loved him with sincerest affection has sustained an irreparable loss. " Ref: Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate dated December 3, 1829.

Tarvin, William H. had a letter remaining at the post office at New Echota on January 1, 1830. Ref: Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate dated Wednesday, January 6, 1830.

Tecumseh. " Tecumseh.- This hero of the scalping knife, is in the way (as we perceive by the New Monthly Magazine) of being immortalized in Great Britain, through the medium of "a Poem in four Cantos, by an English Office," bearing the romantic title of "Tecumseh, or Warrior of the West."- No extracts ar given; but we take it for granted, that the inspiration of the subject has elevated the military bard into something very like Homer-or Milton, at least. The editor of the New Monthly puts forth a deal of interesting pathos in his notice of the work. "It is a tribute to the memory of a great and noble character in savage life, that was distinguished as an ally of the British in Canada, during the late war there, and fell in battle. The Kentuckians afterwards skinned the fallen warrior, to make razor strops of his hide-proof of Kentuckian civilization which the Americans of other states refer to in proof of their charges against that, if being a semi-barbarous province."- "He seems to have been one of those dignified and noble characters which occasionally burst forth from the shackles of savage and untutored nature to command and direct the meaner spirits around him, and to obtain unqualified admiration from civilized nation." "Not only the British, but the Americans (not Kentuckians,) have paid the tribute of admiration to the tried virtues of Tecumseh." "He was a brave and honorable savage whose name should not die in England." But enough of this rigmarole. It is a pity that officers of the army will dabble in mock heroics and sage critics become ridiculous; but it seems to be the fate of almost every English writer in regard to this country, to be guilty of the sin of ignorance, ill-nature, or absurdity.- N. Y. Statesman. " Ref: Cherokee Phoenix , published on Wednesday October 15, 1828

Thomas, Samuel, age 46. Lives in Cherokee County, Georgia) Nancy Thomas, age 39. REJECTED. "This family are not reported in full. I have satisfactory statements that Nancy Thomas the wife is of Cherokee descent- and that they have seven children, they neglected my notices." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi.

Thomson, Martha, age 42. REJECTED. "Living in Murry County, Georgia. This is a white woman who was once the wife of John Vann a native, she afterwards married Mr. Thomson, a white man who is now dead." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.

Tidwell, John, "Youngdeer". SEE Youngdeer. According to a number of applications for reparation in 1910 to the U. S Government (due to Indian violations), John Tidwell was from Georgia and emigrated with the Cherokee Nation about 1835. According to an affidavit of Mamie C. Sheffield, John Tidwell came to the Cherokee Nation about 1836 and participated in a payment of funds at Fort Smith, Arkansas, then returned to the old Nation, or to the State of Georgia. Another affidavit was from his granddaughter, Beulah Walkingstick, who maintained that Tidwell came West in 1835. These applications were rejected because “from these statements it would appear that John Tidwell was an Old Settler Cherokee and for that reason would not have been enrolled with the Emigrant Cherokees in 1835.” His grandson, Pleasant Tidwell, claimed that his grandfather, “Youngdeer”went to the Indian Territory about 1835 and that Pleasant’s father (John Tidwell) received money from the U. S. Government from 1835 to 1840. Other claimants (from 1906 to 1910) through John Tidwell were: Nancy Miller and six children, Dewey, Oklahoma; Eliza Ann Lawrence of Dallas, Georgia; John Tidwell and four children of Allatoona, Georgia, the father of Tina Tidwell and her two children of Cartersville (also claiming under John Langley and Sally Langley nee Tidwell); Jenette Dudley and two children of Dallas, Georgia; Ella A. Crooker of Stilwell, Oklahoma; George H. Hughes of Adair, Oklahoma; Jennie L. Hughes and one child of Adair, Oklahoma; James H. Hughes, by Samuel L. Hughes, guardian; and John J. Tidwell, the first cousin of Tina Tidwell, and many others. All of these applications were rejected. Knowledge of Youngdeer (John Tidwell) is well-known in Paulding County, even today by his descendants. It appears that he was not a stationary individual, and that no one can track his movements with the Cherokees, although it is believed that he did return to Georgia and was buried in Paulding County. John Tidwell (Youngdeer) is thought to have been born ca 1785 in Forsyth County, Georgia. His wife, Maria, born 1790, is listed with their son, John Tidwell, on the 1850 Cobb County Census. Known Issue: I. John Tidwell was born 1810 in Georgia, farmer, was listed on the 1850 Cobb County Census, Wife, Cresa, born 1816. Issue:

Mansel Tidwell, born 1836, lived at Dallas, Georgia in 1860. Wife, Rachel, born 1840 Georgia. Issue: Lucinda Tidwell, born 1857 Paulding County and Sarah Tidwell, born 1851 Paulding County. Pleasant Tidwell, born 1844 Cobb County, applied from Pryor Creek Oklahoma, for reparations. Elizabeth Tidwell, born 1845 Cobb County. This may be the R. J. Tidwell who married J. B. Foot in Paulding County on 29 September 1866. Lavina Tidwell, born 1846 Cobb County. Mary Tidwell, born 1847 Cobb County. She married Thomas Shuffield in Paulding County on 13 November 1879. The affidavit of Marnie C. Sheffield and three children applied for reparations, having five children, from Baron, Oklahoma. Grace Tidwell, born 1848 Cobb County. John Tidwell, born 1847 Cobb County. He married A. H. Gravitt on 30 July 1874 in Paulding County.

Ref: Cherokee by Blood, Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U. S. Court of Claims 1906-1810, Vols. 1 and 2, by Jerry Wright Jordan; 1850 Paulding County Census; Paulding County Marriages; 1850 Cobb County Census; 1860 Paulding County Census.

Tidwell, John, age 34. (His first wife is now living in Cobb County, Georgia) (This name does not appear on the census of 1835). Manuel Tidwell, son, age 16. Chinnesa Tidwell, daughter, age 13. Pleasant Tidwell, son, age 8. Lodusea A. Tidwell, daughter, age 6. Mary Tidwell, daughter, age 4. Gracy A Tidwell, daughter, age 2. Vicky N. Tidwell, daughter, age 1. ALLOWED "This man John Tidwell has the appearance of a half Indian and papers in the county as Indian John, the gentleman to who he referred as being able to satisfy me of his right- did not when I inquired of him remember the man, other persons whom I consider reliable state that he is certainly a Cherokee." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi.

Tidwell, Sarah. SEE Celia Parris.

Towns, Wattes was reported as the father of Sandy Towns who married Sindy Daniel (one-half Cherokee). Sandy Towns told his son, Sanford Towns, that he was a full-blood Cherokee Indian. There is a record of one, Sandy Towns, having married Sarah Hunt on 28 December 1872 in Sumter County, Alabama. According to his application before the U. S. Court of Claims, Sanford Towns was born 1841. However, the 1880 Banks County, Georgia Census shows that Sandy Towns was born in 1852, listed as black, and that his father was born in Virginia, mother born in Georgia. He married (1) Frances Deadroyals, December 1869 in Madison County, and (2) Jane Thompson on 6 March 1880 in Banks County. Jane was listed as a mulatto on the 1880 Banks County Census. Their children, viz:

1. Andrew J. Towns, black, born 1871 in Banks County.
2. Bening J. C. Towns, black, born 1872 in Banks County.
3. Lillian Towns, black, born 1873 in Banks County.
4. Mary Towns, black, born 1879 in Banks County.

The claim of Sanford Towns of Maysville, Georgia, dated 9 July 1908, was rejected.

Trott, James, age 45. (On the 1835 Henderson roll). Rachel Trott, wife, age 39. Ross Trott, son, age 12. Nanny Trott, daughter, age 15. Oseola Trott, son, age 10. Timothy Trott, son, age 8. William Trott, son, age 6, Maria Trott, age 4, daughter. ALLOWED. "This family lives in Nashville, Tennessee. They were reported to me by Edward Adair. I have the statement of many persons to confirm the facts that Rachel Trott, the wife of James Trott is part Cherokee." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.



Trout, Louisa J., wife, age 19. (Samuel Trout is the head of this family) George W.Trout, son, age 4. William H Trout, age 2, son. ALLOWED. "I am informed by Mr. John Ward (could be Hood) of whom I am acquainted who is a man of good character that Louisa Trout is daughter of Mary Ward, Family No. 6 Union County, Georgia." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.

Tucker, John M. of Cherry Log, Georgia was born 1836 and his named appeared on the Chapman Roll of 1851, as being a Cherokee Indian. He was listed on the 1880 Muscogee County Census as Ed Tucker, born 1838. Wife, Silvy, born 1835 in Georgia.

The application of John M. Tucker of Ellijay, Georgia, 10 July 1908, stated that he was 62 years of age and resides in Gilmer County, Georgia. "My mother and grandmother were white women. My father's father's name was Consene. My grandfather was a full blooded Cherokee. My father was taken by some people named Tucker and raised by them. My grandfather had no other name. A man by the name of Ned Tucker took my father and raised him. My father was 82 years of age when he died. He was born in Cherokee County, North Carolina up to the time that the Indians were taken away. He came to Georgia about three or four years after the Indians were taken away from here. It was about 1842. My father was on a roll and drew money before I can recollect, before I was born. I went with my father to Murphy, North Carolina the last time he drew money. I was 21 years of age at the time...I think that my father was put on the Swetland Roll. My father had some sisters and brothers - they were half brothers and sisters to him on the father's side. They went by the name of Walkingstick. Jim Walkingstick was one, Ake Walkingstick and she married a man named Roe. She married before they left this country, I guess...They went to the Territory with the other Indians when they were removed from here. Jim Walkingstick and my father had the same mothers, but different fathers...My idea is that my grandfather was dead in 1835. Never heard of Isaac Tucker. My father lived with the Indians after I was born. I have a sister, Minerva Thomas, who drew money in the west with the Cherokees....She is dead now. Lafayette Tuck is my nephew and he drew money in the west. He is living out in the west with the Cherokees, if not dead. I think his postoffice is FLint, Oklahoma. He is about 45 or 50 years old. I have a sister named Rebecca, Ana, Jane, Minerva. I had a brother named James, one sister named Sutizer and Lucretia." /s/John M. Tucker, Ellijay, Georgia, July 10, 1908.

Issue:

1. Joseph Tucker, born 1859 Georgia, carpenter
2. Laura J. Tucker, born 1862 married Mr. Cornett, of Cherry Log, Georgia
3. John W. Tucker, born 1862, of Blue Ridge, Georgia. Issue: James H. Tucker, born 1888; John W. Tucker, born 1900; Mary E. Tucker, born 1903; and Dewey S. Tucker, born 1906
4. Mary P. Tucker, born 1864 or 1866, of Cherry Log, Georgia
5. William P. Tucker of Cherry Log, Georgia, born 1872
6. Martha A. Tucker, born 1878, married Mr. Carter, of Cherry Log, Georgia

Toochalar, of the Cherokee Nation, among those who published Cherokee Laws. Ref: Cherokee Phoenix , published on Thursday, March 13, 1828.

Towers, J. C. had a letter remaining at the post office at New Echota on January 1, 1830. Ref: Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate dated Wednesday, January 6, 1830.

Tsali. There is a legend which says that a Cherokee man, Tsali, was taken at gunpoint from his home along with his wife and older sons and that on the wa to the stockade, an incident involving Tsali's wife caused Tsali and his sons to react violently, which resulting in their killing two solders. They then fled into the woods, but were finally found by William Holland Thomas, a white man raised by Yonagusha (Drowning Bear) with a bargain that if Tsali and his sons would turn themselves in for execution, that the soldiers would allow the rest of the Cherokee people who were hiding in the mountains to remain there. Tsali agreed, and he and his sons were shot and killed, except for the youngest son, who was spared. The Cherokees were indeed allowed to remain in the North Carolina mountains and their descendants are believed to be the nucleus of today's Eastern Band. Ref: Living Stories of the Cherokees Collected and Edited by Barbara R. Duncan (1998).

Tsu-so-lung-tah. "In our 18th number we noticed that a thief had entered the store of Mr. E. Hicks of this place, and taken various articles. A certain individual who has been known to do the like before, was immediately suspected- a pursuit ensued, but it proved ineffectual. Most of the stolen articles have since been returned, and there is now but little doubt left that the suspicion was correct. We are even told, that during the night of the robbery, he was riding a stolen horse. That our citizens may beware of this fellow, and that he may soon be overtaken by justice, we will give his name and request the officers of this District to bring him to deserved punishment. His name is TSU-SO-LUNG-TAH [ in Cherokee] He is a notorious thief. It will not do to permit him to run at large much longer. " Ref: CHEROKEE PHOENIX, published on Wednesday July 9, 1828.

Tucker, John, aged 50, mixed. Ruby Tucker, wife, aged 45, mixed. Rebecca Tucker, daughter, aged 22, mixed. Anna Tucker, daughter, aged 15, mixed. Jane Tucker, daughter, aged 13, mixed. James Tucker, aged 11, son, mixed. Minerva Tucker, daughter, aged 9, mixed. John Tucker, son, aged 5, mixed. Sutiza Tucker, daughter, aged 2, mixed. Lucretia Tucker, daughter, aged 1, mixed. Ref: 1851 Siler Rolls. Gilmer County, Georgia.

Tucker, Nancy, aged 23, female, mixed, not married. Albert LaFayette Tucker, son, aged 1, mixed. Ref: 1851 Siler Rolls. Gilmer County, Georgia.

Tucker, Lieuellen , aged 26, male, mixed (married to a white woman since treaty). Martha Elizabeth Tucker, daughter, aged 1, mixed. Ref: 1851 Siler Rolls. Gilmer County.

Tucker, Martha H., age 17. ALLOWED. "The name of this girl is presented by James Lloyd her guardian. I have good evidence that she is part Cherokee and part Negro lives in Union County, Georgia." Ref: 1851 Cherokee Census Claims, East of the Mississippi. David W. Siler Report.

Turtle at Home,, Speaker of the Council of the Cherokee Nation, among those who published Cherokee Laws. Ref: Cherokee Phoenix , published on Thursday, March 13, 1828.