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View Tree for Betsy WalkerBetsy Walker (b. Abt. 1715, d. Bet. 1756 - 1810)

Betsy Walker was born Abt. 1715 in NC, USA, and died Bet. 1756 - 1810. She married (1) (Unknown) Walker. She married (2) Walker.

 Includes NotesNotes for Betsy Walker:
It is said that Betsy Walker and her brother Richard were Cherokee Indian orphans and they were placed with a white family. The what family was probably named Walker. It could have been a Felix Walker but not the politician from NC, Buckum County.

Nancy Ann Battle, who had been raised among the Cherokees in NC, filed a claim to be admitted to the Cherokee tribe in about 1910. Hers was among many claims filed at that time based on one Betsy Walker, a full-blooded Cherokee, being one of their ancestors. These claims painted a very confusing picture of the life and times of this Betsy Walker; describing only a few generations back, to many generations. All the claims based on here were denied because the Dawes Commission found no such Indian (Betsy Walker) to have registered as a Cherokee earlier.

From those claims, one would be led to believe that she had children by various spouses. The conclusion is that she had a daughter, Elizabeth Walker, (father unknown) about 1753, who married Edward Leatherwood. Their child Elizabeth Leatherwood married Benjamine Hyde, Sr. She had many children and the trail if pretty clear from there on.

A persistent story told about Betsy is that as a child she came down out of the woods after the Cherokees had been driven out of that part of NC. She was "taken in" and raised by an Indian agent named Walker, hence the name Walker. Some thought the agent was a son of Felix Walker, the frontiersman and U.S. Congressman from NC.

More About Betsy Walker:
Date born 2: Abt. 1715

Children of Betsy Walker and (Unknown) Walker are:
  1. +Nancy Ann Walker, b. 17 May 1754, Henry, Virginia, USA217, 217, 217, 217, d. 16 Oct 1848, Dellwood, Haywood, North Carolina, USA217, 217, 217, 217.

Children of Betsy Walker and Walker are:
  1. +Nancy Ann Walker, b. 17 May 1754, Henry, Virginia, USA217, d. 16 Oct 1848, Dellwood, Haywood, North Carolina, USA217.
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