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About Rev. Edward ‘Ned’ Gunter
Edward Gunter served with Gen. Andrew Jackson at the battle of Horseshoe Bend and stayed with him throughout the war. He started a ferry across the Tennessee River in 1818 and had seven children by two marriages. At times, he was also called Edmond or Ned.
Edward Gunter was a Cherokee man.
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gunter-269
Edward Gunter's birth date is uncertain but likely about 1790 (he was a soldier in the War of 1812, so dates as late as 1803 cannot be correct).
He was the son of John Gunter a white man, and his Cherokee wife, Catherine . [1]
Edward had children by three or four different women, including
- Elsie/Alice McCoy (mother of Eliza, Daniel, Martha, Catherine, John, and Margaret) [2] and
- Letitia Keyes (mother of Elizabeth). [3] .
- The mothers of children Sarah, James, and Jennie are uncertain.
Along with his father, Edward took a reservation under the Treaty of 1817. [4] Methodist missionaries arrived at Creek Path in 1822 and Edward soon became associated with them. He was recorded as an "exhorter" (a Cherokee person who preached or interpreted) at a camp meeting in 1823, and was apparently one of many Cherokee Methodists who continued to preach after Removal. [5]
The 1835 Cherokee Census listed Edward and a family of 10 living at Creek Path, now Alabama. [6] Edward's father died in August, 1835 and Edward was named in his father's will:
"22. It is my will that all my ready money after the above sums have been paid shall be divided between my sons Samuel and Edmond (Edward)." [7]
He and his family were Removed to Indian Territory over the Trail of Tears in the Benge/Lowrey detachment.
Edward served in the War of 1812, and represented the Chatooga District at the 1827 Cherokee Constitutional Convention. He was appointed a delegate to Washington in 1829. [8] He was a signer of the 1839 Act of Union which rejoined the western and eastern groups of the Cherokee Nation into one and was again elected a delegate to Washington in 1839. [9]
Edward died in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, in 1842. [10] His grave marker is now lost, but was photographed and recorded by James Tyner. The inscription read "Sacred to the Memory of Rev. Edward Gunter, Born October, 1789, departed this life 17th April 1842. " [11]
Edward Gunter grave marker
Tyner, James. Our People and Where They Rest, Vol. 5, p. 17
Sources
- Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed-Bloods. Arc Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, Arkansas. 2005. p. 638
- Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 372
- National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #4702, grandson Austin Rider
- Hampton, David K. transcriber. Cherokee Reservees. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK 1979. p. 13. See transcripts of claims regarding his reservation taken under the Treaty of 1817: reservation
- Vernon, Walter. "They Championed the Cherokees." Methodist History Journal, October, 1983. United Methodist Church General Commission on Archives and History. Methodist
- Tyner, James. Those Who Cried. Transcript of 1835 Cherokee census. Chi-ga-u, Inc. Norman, OK. 1974. p. 5
- will transcript, Alabama Historical Quarterly, Fall, 1947. pp. 421-425. Digitized at FamilySearch.com
- Cherokee Phoenix, November 19, 1828, transcript at Phoenix
- Hampton, David K. and Baker, Jack D., eds. Old Cherokee Families Notes of Dr. Emmet Starr. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1987. Vol. 1, p. 126 Note C803
- Hampton, Mixed Bloods, p. 638
- Tyner, James. Our People and Where they Rest, Vol. 5, p. 17. Digitized at FamilySearch grave See also:
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51211748/edward-gunter
- From the family genealogy files of Philip Lee Smith
- Reference: AlabamaPioneers-John Gunter
- Birth dates: 1789 vs. 1803 !
- Residence: Alabama, United States - 1822
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via brother Samuel Gunter by SmartCopy: Apr 2 2015, 19:41:21 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Apr 13 2016, 19:12:51 UTC
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 11 2017, 19:26:53 UTC
- Residence: Alabama, United States - 1822
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 11 2017, 19:26:53 UTC
- Military_service: District of Columbia, United States - 27 Mar 1814
- Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jul 8 2020, 2:53:05 UTC
- U.S., Census Records and Cherokee Muster Rolls, 1835-1838 < AncestrySharing >
- Recorded in "Our People And Where They Rest," James W. Tyner, Maxine Tyner and Alice Tyner Timmons, American Indian Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 1971, Vol. 5, p. 17 (Library of Congress No. A-304793/QE99-C5-T97) [University that received taxpayer dollars for the program/product; thus it is presumed to be in the public domain.] They gave it as being in Section 19, Range 22E, Township 17N and gave credit to Mary WItcher for help with its recording.
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147106944/edward-gunter
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Rev. Edward ‘Ned’ Gunter's Timeline
| 1789 |
October 1789
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Guntersville, Marshall County, Alabama, United States
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| 1810 |
1810
Age 20
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1832
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| 1840 |
April 26, 1840
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Guntersville, Marshall County, Alabama, United States
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April 26, 1840
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| 1842 |
April 17, 1842
Age 52
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Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States
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April 17, 1842
Age 52
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Catoosa, Rogers County, Oklahoma, United States
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