Oowatie (Oo-Watie) ‘David’ Watie

David Watie was a Cherokee man

Biography

Oo-wat-ie, known as "David Watie" in English, and his brother The Ridge, full-blood Cherokees of the Deer Clan, were probably born near Hiwassie in the old Cherokee Nation. Their mother's name is unknown, but Emmet Starr recorded their father as a man named Oganstotah (not the famous chief). [1] According to memories of The Ridge, the family was displaced in 1776 during the Revolutionary War when American militia under Rutherford destroyed the Cherokee towns near Hiwassie [2] and moved to the Sequatchie valley farther down the Tennessee River. The family made a final move to Pine Log (now Georgia) about 1785. Oganstota and his wife are believed to have died there about about 1789. [3]

David married Susannah Reese about 1798. All but one of their eleven children went by the surname of "Watie". Their children included the famous Cherokee Confederate General Stand Watie and Elias Boudinot (born Killikeenah Watie), publisher of the "Cherokee Advocate" newspaper. [4]

Susannah died in 1832. David is probably the man listed on the 1835 Cherokee Census as "Watie" living next to John Ridge on the Oostenali River (now Georgia). [5] David was Removed to Indian Territory where he died about 1842. He may be buried at Polson Cemetery, OK, near Southwest City, MO.

Children

1. Dawnee Watie (circa 1800 - 9/27/1812) Buried at Springplace Moravian Mission Cemetery, GA.

2. Degataga "Stand" Watie or "Tah-kah-to-kah" (12/12/1804-9/9/1871) Married #1 Elizabeth Fields (circa 1808 - circa 1828) circa 1825 (dau. of John Wickett Fields and Susannah Halfbreed). Married #2 Isabel Hicks (circa 1813 - circa 1858) nee Miller circa 1830 (dau. of Andrew Miller and Catherine Hicks) Married #3 Eleanor Looney (circa 1816) circa 1834 (dau. of John Looney and Susan ________ )Peggy "Wakie" Watie - (1806-?) Married Sarah Caroline Bell. Buried at Polson Cemetery, Delaware, OK

3. Kilakeena "Buck" Watie became "Elias Boudinot" (1802 - 6/22/1839) Married #1 Harriet Ruggles Gold (Harriet buried at New Echota, GA) Married Delight Sargent. Buried at Worcester Mission Cemetery, Cherokee, OK

4. Peggie "Wakie" Watie (1806-?) Died young.

5. Nancy Watie (1808 - 2/17/1852) married John Foster Wheeler (7/10/1808 - 3/10/1880) Died at Fort SMith, AR.

6. Unnamed daughter, (1810-1816)

7. Thomas Black Watie (circa 1812 - 11/14/1845) He was murdered near Van Buren, Arkansas

8. Mary Ann Watie (circa 1814 - 5/1844) Married John Walker Candy (1807? - 7/1868) Died May, 1844 Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory

9 John Alexander Watie (ca. 1818 - 1852) Married Eliza Fields (1815 - 10/16/1873) Died abt. 1852, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory

10. Elizabeth Watie (circa 1821 - 1860 ) Married #1 Lewis Webber Married #2 George Washington Candy (1805 - 5/9/1856) Died 1860, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory

11. Charles Edwin Watie (1829 - 5/27/1877) Buried at Polson Cemetery, Delaware, OK

Sources

↑ Starr, Emmet. "History of the Cherokee Indians," Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK, 1993. pages 381 and 473
↑ Isenbarger, Dennis L. ed. Native Americans in Early North Carolina. Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, N.C. 2013. pp. 242-244.
↑ Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy., MacMillan & Co., New York, New York, 1970, p. 21
↑ Hampton, David K. "Cherokee Mixed-Bloods," ARC Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, AR, 2005. pp. 243-245
↑ 1835 Cherokee Census. Transcript, Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill Oklahoma, 2002.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias_Boudinot_(Cherokee)
The Stand Watie and Elias Boudinot Family (Sons of David Oo-Watee) PHOTOS Too
Find A Grave Memorial for his wife Susannah Charity Reese Watie
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000