Captain George Fields

George Fields was a Cherokee man

Biography

George Fields was born in 1765 in the Cherokee Nation, the son of a Cherokee woman, Susannah Emory, and her white husband Richard Fields. He had three wives. The name of the first is unknown, but they were the parents of a daughter, Annie. His second wife was Jennie (erroneously listed as Nannie by Starr) Brown, by whom he had five children, Johnson, Archibald, Robert, Susie, and Rachel. George left Jenny about 1810 (she died in 1815) [1] and married his third wife Sarah Coody. They were the parents of seven children, Richard, Rider, Ruth, Nannie, Dempsey, Martha, and John. [2] George was a captain of Cherokee troops under Gideon Morgan in the War of 1812. [3] In November, 1818 George, with a family of 8 persons, took a reservation of land on the " south side of Thompson's Creek" under the Treaty of 1817. [4] The 1835 Cherokee Census shows the family living in Turkey Town (now Alabama). [5] In 1836 George was awarded a pension of $10 a month for his service in the War of 1812. [6] The family was Removed to Indian Territory where George died April 14, 1849. He is buried at the Ross Family Cemetery in what is now Locust Grove, OK. [7] Widow Sarah appears on the 1851 Drennan Roll in Saline District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. [8]

Tombstone Inscription: aged 84 yrs
Birth: 1765
Death: Apr. 14, 1849
THERE IS A HEADSTONE!
Spouse: https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10479455
THE HEADSTONE says "Wife of George Fields" Sarah Coody Fields (1780 - 1857)
Sarah is buried here also and a daughter Martha who died just 9 days after her mother, 1857.
NOTE: There were several men named "George Fields" whose information is sometimes confused. This George's brothers John and Richard both had sons named George.

Sources

↑ Crews & Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK. Vol. 4, p. 1962
↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 309
↑ Starr, p. 467
↑ Hampton, David K. , compiler Cherokee Reservees. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1979 p. 6.
↑ Tyner, James. Those Who Cried. Transcript of 1835 Cherokee census. Chi-ga-u, Inc. Norman, OK. 1974. p. 12
↑ War of 1812 Pension Files, National Archives and Records Administration. Roll: RG15-1812PB-Bx1224. Images at Fold3
↑ Tombstone, details below
↑ Drennen Roll of “Emigrant Cherokee,” 1851. Series 7RA-01. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. p. 304, family #449. images at ancestry.com

Children per Starr
1 Annie Fields. Bigfeather.
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2 Johnson Fields. Rebecca Fawn and Elsie Lee.
4 Archibald Fields. Quatie Brown nee Conrad and Elizabet Hicks.
6 Robert Fields. Sallie Murphy.
7 Susie Fields. Richard Taylor.
10 Rachiel Fields. _ Crawford.
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3 Richard Fields. Lydia Shorey and Henrietta Ridgeway.
5 Rider Fields. Margaret Bruner, Jennie Huss and Sallie McDaniel.
8 Ruth Fields. John West.
9 Nannie Fields. Richard Ratliff.
11 Dempsey Fields. Annie Claunch.
12 Martha Fields. William Mosley, John Thompson, John O'Bannon and Joseph Riley.
13 John Fields. *