Che-yah (William) ‘Otter’ Scraper

Otter was a Cherokee man

Biography

Otter was born about 1830 in the Cherokee Nation (East). He is the son of Old Man Scraper and Tiana Smith. [1] Otter, listed as "Cheyah" appears on the 1851 Drennan Roll with his father. [2] His date of death is uncertain. He appears on the 1896 Cherokee census living in Tahlequah District, but apparently died before 1900 when Dawes Roll applications were taken. [3]

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 452. Digitized edition at Starr
2. ↑ 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. Going Snake District, p. 171, family #672. Sister Sallie is the next listing.
3. ↑ The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-19; NARA Series Title: Cherokee Census, 1896, Tahlequah District #237
4. Family records

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Scraper-35

(Curator note: on WikiTree, the reference to Otter being the son of “Old Man Scraper” links to Tee-su-gah-ske Cherokee (1788 - 1854), a variant spelling of Dee-su-gaw-skee, but the same person)
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Otter (William C.) Scraper, (Dee-su-gaw-skee2, /Oo-ka-wor-dar/1 ) b. ABT 1830 in Cherokee Indian Nation East, d. AUG 1896. Cherokee name is Che-yah. He lived in Goingsnake District.

    Otter was a Councilman & Interpreter for the Cherokee National Council in1863.

    He married Sah-kin-ney (Sallie) Kingfisher, d. SEP 1888.

                     Children:

                 i.    Charley4 Che-yah.

         66.    ii.   Jennie Scraper b. 1862.

Source: Scraper, J. (2009). The Scraper - Sixkiller Book: Genealogy and History of the Scraper and Sixkiller Families of the Cherokee People. Aardvark Global Publishing. Extract from Our Scraper Family Compiled by Joe Scraper Jr. @ https://scraperfamily.angelfire.com/texts/Scraper.htm