Quatie "Elizabeth" Brown was born in the Cherokee Nation about 1792. Her parents are unknown. Some think she was the daughter of Thomas Brown a mixed-blood Cherokee, others that her father was a white trader and her mother Cherokee but there is no record to support either suggestion. Her first husband was named Henley; they married about 1809. They were the parents of a daughter Susan, 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. There is no record I can find that says anything about "Fatima" a name I have never seen connected to any Cherokee person. I haven't seen anything that suggests Susan married a second time, she is on the 1851 "Old Settler" roll as "Susan Coody." Susan and William's daughter Henrietta died in 1849 and Susan's only living heir in 1896 was William's daughter Ella (see her Eastern Cherokee app 8704)
Quatie married John Ross in 1813. They were the parents of six children James, Allen, Jane, Silas, George, and one who died at birth. Quatie died near Little Rock, AR on the Trail of Tears and is buried there.
John Ross' scholarly biography and David Hampton both say Quatie's antecedents are unknown as is Henley's first name.
