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About Quatie ‘Elizabeth’ Ross
Que-te was a Cherokee woman.
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-33370
Quatie ‘Elizabeth’ Brown was born about 1791 in the Cherokee Nation (East). We don’t know her parents.
Around 1809 she married a man named Henley: They had one child:
- Susan Henley, who lived with her mother and John Ross until she married William Shorey Coody who was John Ross's nephew. (see Eastern Cherokee application #1300) According to her half-brother Silas, Susan died in California in 1852; she has a memorial stone at the Holland Cemetery in Tahlequah OK.
In 1813, she married John Ross, who later became Chief of the Cherokee Nation. They were the parents of five children, James, Allen, Jane, Silas, and George. [1]
Already ill when the family left their home in the East in December of 1838, she developed pneumonia and died enroute to Indian Territory near Little Rock, Arkansas during the forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation on the "Trail of Tears." Her remains were moved to the Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1843. [2]
Family
She married in 1813, Chief John Ross of the Cherokees; they had the following children:
- James McDonald (b. 1814),
- Allen (b. 1817);
- Jane "Jennie" Ross (b. 1821)
- Silas Dean (b. 1829);
- George Washington Ross (b. 1830);
- infant who died at birth
(all of the children born in the Cherokee Nation East).
She appears as Quatie Hare on the 1835 census of the Cherokee Nation East at Red Clay in McMinn County, with two full-bloods and four half-bloods, three of whom could read English. She might have been connected in some way with James Hare, who appears on the same census.
Quatie died on the "Trail of Tears." A story goes that she gave up her blanket to a sick child, and died of pneumonia as the result.
Chief John Ross had two wives, Quatie (mother of James, Allen, Jane, Silas, and George) and then Mary Stapler (mother of Anna and John, Jr.)
Origins
Evidence needed to support as daughter of Thomas Brown & Nannie Broom.
Quatie's parents are not recorded. Some believe she was a full-blood Cherokee of the Bird clan, others believed she was the daughter of Thomas Brown, the son of a white man and a Cherokee woman, still others that she was the daughter of a Scots trader named Brown and a Cherokee woman. [3]
Source
- Page 62 of The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volume 1 By Zella Armstrong. “Children of Chief John Ross” 2 sons named John Ross given by Starr.
- Findagrave.com, Quatie (Elizabeth) Brown Ross
- Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 3 2017, 6:18:49 UTC
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-33370 cites
- Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed-Bloods. Arc Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, Arkansas. 2005. pp: 262-264, 272-272.
- Moulton, Gary E. John Ross, Cherokee Chief. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA. 1978. pp. 12-13
- See also: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/quatie-ross-12527/ Elizabeth Brown was born in the Old Cherokee Nation in modern-day Georgia in 1791 to Thomas Brown and Elizabeth Martin. Not much is known about her childhood. She married and had a child with a man named Robert Henley; after his death, she met her future husband, John Ross. Elizabeth was known by many by the name of Quatie, an anglicized version of her Cherokee name, “Que-ti.” Quatie and John Ross raised five children together; their sixth child was stillborn.
- https://www.okhistory.org/sites/hhrossfamily
- https://www.fold3.com/image/221195507
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Quatie ‘Elizabeth’ Ross's Timeline
| 1791 |
1791
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Old Cherokee Nation, Georgia, United States
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| 1809 |
1809
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Cherokee Nation East
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| 1814 |
October 10, 1814
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Cherokee Nation, Georgia
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| 1817 |
December 26, 1817
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Cherokee Nation (East), Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States
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| 1821 |
May 21, 1821
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Walker County, Georgia, United States
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| 1822 |
1822
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Cherokee Nation East
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| 1825 |
1825
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| 1830 |
March 30, 1830
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Tennessee, United States
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