Annie Bigfeather

Annie Fields was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Annie Fields was born in the Cherokee Nation (East) about 1792. She was the daughter of George Fields. Her mother's name is unknown. Annie married several times. With George Lowrey she was the mother of Washington Lowrey. With Sixkiller she was the mother of Archibald and Thomas Sixkiller. [1] She was the mother of a man named "Tire" with an unknown man. Her last husband was Bigfeather (Oo-ge-dah-lah-quah); they married about 1825. The family appears on the 1835 Cherokee Census living in what is now Jackson County, Alabama. [2] The family was Removed to Indian Territory and settled in the Flint District. Bigfeather and Annie were the parents of four children, George, Annie, Hawk, and Cloud who appear with their mother on the 1851 Drennan Roll. [3] George died before 1851; Annie's death date is unknown. [4]

Research Notes

• Hawk: Data on this person is quite elusive. Based on testimony from a Dawes or Miller record that I saw 10-12 years ago, it seemed that a man named Hawk changed his name to Sixkiller and had many descendants by the old and honorable name- Sixkiller. No information that I am aware of has yet been found to connect him to the Sixkiller who fathered Cricket, Frog, Redbird, Soldier, Tail, etc. Lately I have been unable to retrace my steps and relocate the testimony, so please take it or reject it as you see fit.

Sources

1. ↑ Testimony by Walter Sixkiller within the Eastern Cherokee application of his brother Sam, states that his father was Arch Field, but went by the name Arch Sixkiller. (Samuel Sixkiller #761, misc. test. P. 4019, March 20th 1909).
2. ↑ 1835 Cherokee Census, transcription published by the Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill, OK. 2002. Original records: National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm publication T496, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi with Index. p. 12
3. ↑ Drennen Roll of “Emigrant Cherokee,” 1851. Images at Ancestry.com. Series 7RA-01. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. National Archives at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. Flint District, p. 60 #36.
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98122295/annie-lowrey

See also:

• National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims, Application #5591, grandson Wash Bigfeather. Digitized at Fold3 Wash
• National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims, Application #761, Samuel Sixkiller (Indexed as Samuel Six Killer Beck). Digitized at Fold3, images begin at Samuel
• dead link: http: //scraperhistory.com/reports/Hawk-Sixkiller_Report.htm (possibly in the Wayback machine.)

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fields-3936
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