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Descendants of A-ma-do-ya Moytoy
1726.LUCY8 FIELDS (CHARLES7, ELIZABETH ANN6WICKETT, KATE5PARRIS, PRACHEY4_____, A-NU-WE-GI3MOYTOY, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1836.She married LEVI TONEY, SR.He was born Abt. 1830, and died March 13, 1878.
More About LEVI TONEY, SR:
1851 Drennan roll: Saline, 23 "12917"
Children of LUCY FIELDS and LEVI TONEY are:
| More About CALHOUN MUSKRAT: 1880 Census [CN]: Canadian, 937 1902-07 Dawes roll: card# 8000, roll# 18728 Blood: Full Blood Cherokee |
| vi. | ELIZABETH TONEY, b. Abt. 1866; d. Bef. 1896. |
1727.JENNIE8 FIELDS (TI-E-S-GI7, ELIZABETH ANN6WICKETT, KATE5PARRIS, PRACHEY4_____, A-NU-WE-GI3MOYTOY, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1840, and died January 31, 1872.She married RUFUS BELL ADAIR Bef. 1859, son of ANDREW ADAIR and MARY MILLER.He was born January 22, 1838, and died August 1881.
More About RUFUS BELL ADAIR:
1851 Drennan roll: Flint, 244
1869 Census [CN]: Sequoyah, 1, with 1 woman, 2 boys & 2 girls
1880 Census [CN]: Sequoyah, 1
Occupation: Farmer
Children of JENNIE FIELDS and RUFUS ADAIR are:
| 3639. | i. | SUSAN9 ADAIR, b. February 18, 1859, Flint Dist, CNW; d. Aft. 1908. | |
| 3640. | ii. | MOSES ADAIR, b. 1865; d. October 18, 1892. | |
| iii. | ANDREW ADAIR, b. 1867; d. Bef. 1902. |
| More About ANDREW ADAIR: 1880 Census [CN]: Sequoyah, 4 |
| 3641. | iv. | SAMUEL E ADAIR, b. August 12, 1869, Sequoyah Dist, CNW; d. May 03, 1922, Sallisaw, OK. |
1728.WILLIAM L8 VANN (MARGARET7LASLEY, ELIZABETH ANN6WICKETT, KATE5PARRIS, PRACHEY4_____, A-NU-WE-GI3MOYTOY, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born 1825 in CNE, and died July 1852.He married (2) LOUVENIA COSTER Abt. 1850.She was born Abt. 1836 in London, England, and died Abt. 1868.
More About WILLIAM L VANN:
1851 Drennan roll: Flint, 478
Clan: Ani'-Ga'tâge'wi = Kituah or Wild Potato (Wa-Wli Vann)
More About LOUVENIA COSTER:
Blood: English
Child of WILLIAM L VANN is:
| i. | JOHN ROSS9 VANN, b. Abt. 1848; d. January 10, 1879; m. ELIZABETH ROSS, February 07, 1877; b. October 15, 1855; d. June 10, 1878. |
| More About ELIZABETH ROSS: Starr's Notes: H170 |
Children of WILLIAM VANN and LOUVENIA COSTER are:
| ii. | MARY ELIZABETH9 VANN, b. February 23, 1851, Flint Dist, CNW; d. December 20, 1900; m. EDWARD B FRAYSER, Bef. 1900; b. 1849; d. Aft. 1906. |
| More About EDWARD B FRAYSER: 1880 Census [CN]: Delaware, 1037 1890 Census [CN]: Delaware, 3396 Blood: Adopted White Occupation 1: 1890, Stockraiser and Farmer Occupation 2: 1880, Farmer |
| iii. | WILLIE VANN, b. Abt. 1852; d. Infant. | ||
| iv. | EMMA VANN, b. Abt. 1853; d. Infant. |
1729.CYNTHIA A8 VANN (MARGARET7LASLEY, ELIZABETH ANN6WICKETT, KATE5PARRIS, PRACHEY4_____, A-NU-WE-GI3MOYTOY, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born 1829 in Alabama, and died March 10, 1892.She married (1) LEROY BUCK STARR Abt. 1847, son of EZEKIEL STARR and MARY UPSHAW.He was born 1823 in Tennessee, and died August 05, 1902.She married (2) _____ DUNCAN Aft. 1855.He was born Abt. 1834.
More About CYNTHIA A VANN:
1851 Drennan roll: Flint, 375 as Cynthia P Starr
Clan: Ani'-Ga'tâge'wi = Kituah or Wild Potato (Wa-Wli Vann)
Notes for LEROY BUCK STARR:
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Stilwell Standard, Adair Co, OK, Aug 8, 1902;Leroy "Buck" Starr, the last of a family of eleven children - six boys and five girls, - died at his home near Stilwell last Tuesday morning, from sunstroke.Uncle Buck, as everybody called him, was in his 79th year.He was an excellent type of the old generation and lived in the old Indian style to the last. Five brothers and five sisters preceded him to the unknown land.His brothers were: Ellis, Cale, Jack, Hickory and Zeke.They were sons of Zeke Starr who died way back in the 40's in Washington D.C., while serving his people as a delegate.Uncle Buck was ready for the summons, for he had lived a harmless life, doing unto others as he would have others do unto him.His remains were buried in the old Hickory Starr burying ground last Wednesday by a large concourse of friends and relatives.Ellis Starr and Mrs Railey, a son and daughter survive him. The Standard extends sympathy to the bereaved.
[Local News] Hon and Mrs Ellis Starr of Sallisaw, were up this week attending the bedside of Uncle Buck Starr, Ellis' father.Mrs Railey of Muldrow, a daughter of Uncle Buck Starr was at his bedside when he died.
More About LEROY BUCK STARR:
1851 Old Settler roll: Flint, 88 (1896 page 19)
1880 Census [CN]: Flint, 1314
1890 Census [CN]: Flint, 1050
1894-96 O.S. payroll: Evansville, AR, page 19
Occupation: 1880, Farmer
Translation: Ga-la-gi-na = Buck, Gobbler (Males)
Children are listed above under (1113) Leroy Buck Starr.
1730.JOHN ROLLIN8 RIDGE (JOHN7, SUSANNAH6WICKETT, KATE5PARRIS, PRACHEY4_____, A-NU-WE-GI3MOYTOY, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born 1827 in CNE [GA], and died October 05, 1867 in California.He married ELIZABETH WILSON.She was born Abt. 1830.
Notes for JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE:
On June 28, 1839, John Rollin Ridge's grandfather, Major Ridge, died in an ambush near the Arkansas border.And, at dawn, raiders pulled his father John Ridge from his bed and stabbed him nearly 30 times. Twelve-year-old John Rollin Ridge witnessed his father's murder.Fearing for her family, Sarah Ridge moved her children from the Cherokee Nation to Fayetteville, Arkansas.But the border town was not free of the tribe's political split, and the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot family-now called the Treaty Party-continued to confront and battle Ross supporters.
Years later David Kells, a Ross supporter, mutilated and gelded a prize stallion owned by John Rollin Ridge.When confronted, Kells said, "I am willing to stand by my deed with my life."The two squared off, and Ridge warned the man to stay away from him.Kells continued walking toward Ridge, who shot him dead."Fearful of reprisals from Kells' vengeful relatives, Ridge fled to Springfield, Mo., notwithstanding the strong element of self-defense," a newspaper said years later."The Widow Ridge, however, fearful her son would meet assassination, as had her husband and father-in-law, forbade Ridge to return."
Ridge did not stand trial; he took off for California and the Gold Rush. As he headed west, Ridge supported himself by writing poems and stories for newspapers.In 1848, he wrote a piece for the Texas Northern Standard advocating Cherokee admission as a state.Ridge wrote about the Gold Rush and Indian affairs for newspapers in Texas, Louisiana and California.
"I suppose you know pretty well from different sources what my history has been in California.It has been a series of bad luck," Ridge wrote his cousin Stand Watie in 1853."I have tried the mines, I have tried trading, I have tried everything but with no avail, always making a living but nothing more.If I could have contented myself to remain permanently in the country, I could have succeeded in making a fortune, but I have been struggling all the time to make one in a hurry so that I might return to Arkansas (and I say to you) to the Cherokee Nation also."
Ridge also continued to write.He was a frequent contributor to the literary magazine, The Golden Era, where he shared bylines with the likes of Bret Harte, Mark Twain and Joaquin Miller.His pen-name was Yellow Bird, a translation of his Cherokee name, Chees-quat-a-law-ny.The author Yellow Bird also completed a novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, a story about a Mexican bandit.This may have been the first novel by an American Indian author, and, ironically, it created an enduring stereotype and myth about people from another culture.
"I expected to have made a great deal of money off of my book," Ridge wrote Watie in October of 1854. "And my publishers, after selling 7,000 copies and putting the money in their pockets, fled, busted up, tee totally smashed, and left me, with a hundred others, to whistle for our money!"
In the same letter, Ridge outlined for Watie a "most powerful friend," a proposal for an Indian newspaper to be located somewhere near the Cherokee Nation."It would be a medium not only of defending Indian rights and making oppressors tremble, but of preserving the memories of the distinguished men of the race, illustrating their characters and keeping green and fresh many of the most important events of Indian history which should not be allowed to perish.
"Now Stand, if you will furnish the money to buy a press, I will engage to edit it ... I want to preserve the dignity of the family name ... Don't you see how much precious time I am wasting in California?I should be using my pen in behalf of my own people."
Ridge and Charles Watie were hired in 1856 as editors of The California American.Meanwhile, Charles Watie continued to press his brother Stand for money to start a Cherokee newspaper-and hinted that Ridge might not be immediately available.Perhaps Ridge changed his mind because he was keen on his new career.The American was a political journal, and Ridge could use his pen to promote his ideas about liberty, democracy and the future of Indian country.
After a year as editor-essentially a hired gun-Ridge organized a group of Sacramento business leaders to start a new paper.They purchased the plant of The California American and announced the creation of The Sacramento Daily Bee.The first issue was published on Feb. 3, 1857, and Ridge wrote:"The name of The Bee has been adopted, as being different from that of every other paper of the state, and as also being emblematic of the industry which is to prevail in its every department."
Ridge, the poet and novelist, said he had found his true calling.He divided newspaper editors into "true editors" and "apologies for editors."True editors, he said, must know "everything" and must carry a vast "fund of general information, for there is not a subject which engages men's minds, in whatever range of science or literature, upon which he is not peremptorily called to write."
The Bee's editor also called for a new kind of journalism.He attacked the fiercely partisan newspapers as "nothing more than the sneaking apologists of scoundrels who pay them for the trouble of lying." Ridge defended the entry of women into journalism.
And he made it clear that The Bee's editorials carried the soul of an American Indian.In an essay about poetry, for example, Ridge writes: "The speech of the North American warrior or chief in council is full of metaphor and the essence of poetry.It is up to the true poet to use his pen, his chisel, or his pencil ... to give us pictures of our nobler selves."
More About JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE:
1851 Drennan roll: Delaware, 493
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsi-s-qua-ta-la-ni
Child of JOHN RIDGE and ELIZABETH WILSON is:
| i. | ALICE BIRD9 RIDGE, b. 1848; d. 1912; m. FRANCIS G BEATTY; b. Abt. 1844; d. 1908. |
| More About ALICE BIRD RIDGE: 1851 Drennan roll: Delaware, 493 1906-09 Miller roll: Grass Valley, CA, ap# 13312, roll# 4591 as Alice Bird R Beatty |
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