Major George Lowrey Jr

A cousin of Sequoya and second chief of the Eastern Cherokee under John Ross, commonly known as Major Lowrey. His native name was Ag1 It ('He is rising'), possibly a contraction of an old personal name, Agin'agi`ll ('Rising-fawn'). He joined Ross in steadily opposing all attempts to force his people to move from their eastern lands, and later, after this had been accomplished, he was chief of council of the Eastern Cherokee at the meeting held in 1839 to fuse the eastern and western divisions into the present Cherokee Nation. He & his wife Lucy Benge Lowrey are both buried in Tahlequah, OK.

Together they had 10 kids...the more famous of which was Lydia Lowrey who was the first Cherokee to ever write a hymn. But their son Washington married Nancy Gist who was the daughter of Sequoyah...the Author of the Cherokee alphabet. Their other children were James, Susan, George III, Rachel, John, Anderson Pierce, Archibal, & Charles.

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