Eliza Abigail Rattlinggourd

Eliza was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Eliza Looney was born in the Cherokee Nation (West) about 1824. According to researcher James Hicks she was the daughter of John Looney, who was later the Chief of the Western Cherokee, and Betsy Webber. [1] The Looney family was forced to move from the Cherokee land in Arkansas to the new Indian Territory in 1827. Eliza married Daniel Rattlinggourd about 1844. [2] Eliza appears on the 1851 Old Settler Roll, living in the Tahlequah District with their children Looney, Charles, Sarah, and John. (Daniel is on the Drennan Roll of Emigrant Cherokee). [3] They were also the parents of Timothy, Thomas, and Alexander. [4] Eliza passed away in 1867.

Sources

1. ↑ James Hicks' Cherokee Lineages web site, Hicks
2. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 426. Digitized edition at Starr
3. ↑ Hampton, David K., transcriber. Cherokee Old Settlers, combined transcript of 1851 and 1896 Old Settler Payrolls. 1993. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75, Microfilms T985 and 7RA34. p. 274
4. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #11773, Alexander Rattlinggourd. Digitized at Fold3, images begin at Alexander

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Looney-1766
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.ELIZA ABIGAL7 LOONEY (JOHN6, MOTHER OF5, BLACKFOX4, A-TA-GU-LA-GU-LA3, NANCY2MOYTOY, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1824, and died Abt. 1867.She married DANIEL RATTLING GOURD, son of RATTLING-GOURD CONRAD and MARY TONEY.He was born Abt. 1818 in CNE [GA], and died Abt. 1877.
More About ELIZA ABIGAL LOONEY:
1851 Old Settler roll: Tahlequah, 48 as Eliza Rattlingourd (1896 page 138)
More About DANIEL RATTLING GOURD:
1851 Drennan roll: Tahlequah, 239
Military service: November 30, 1864, Pvt, I Co, 3rd Reg, discharged for unadjusted fracture, right thigh.

Children of ELIZA LOONEY and DANIEL GOURD are:
1031. i. LOONEY RATTLING8 GOURD, b. September 15, 1845, Tahlequah Dist, CNW; d. Aft. 1906.

	ii.	 	CHARLES RATTLING GOURD, b. Abt. 1848; m. SAMANTHA MILLER; b. Abt. 1850.

	More About CHARLES RATTLING GOURD:

1851 Old Settler roll: Tahlequah, 48 (1896 page 138)
Blood: 3/8 Cherokee

	iii.	 	SARAH RATTLING GOURD, b. Abt. 1850.

	More About SARAH RATTLING GOURD:

1851 Old Settler roll: Tahlequah, 48 (1896 page 138)
Blood: 3/8 Cherokee
1032. iv. JOHN RATTLING GOURD, b. August 05, 1850; d. Bet. 1895 - 1902.
1033. v. TIMOTHY RATTLING GOURD, b. 1855; d. October 12, 1885.
1034. vi. THOMAS RATTLING GOURD, b. 1859; d. January 11, 1897.
1035. vii. ALEXANDER RATTLING GOURD, b. 1861; d. Aft. 1906.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Amatoya Moytoy” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021...
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• *Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Arkansas; Listed on the 1817-19 Reservations: 15 Sep 1818, #140, Creekpath including where Blackfox lived & died, Native, 4 in family. Volunteered for service of the US, Capt. under Andrew Jackson against the Creek Indians in Dec. 1813, was wounded at Talladega and pensioned in 1842. He was a delegate to Washington DC on behalf of the Cherokees.

Chief John Looney (Cherokee) was the son of "Mother of Looney" who was the daughter of Blackfox.

He married before 1816, (1) Susan (Unkn) who was b. abt 1790; they had 2 children: Eleanor b. abt 1816 who married Chief Stand Watie, and Rachel b. abt 1818 d. 1867 who married John Nave.

He married before 1824, Betsy Webber, daughter of Willliam Webber and Sarah (Unkn); they had the following children: Eliza Abigal b. abt 1824, d. abt 1867 who married Daniel Rattling Gourd; and Nancy Looney b. abt 1828 who married Christopher C. Sage b. 1845.

Source: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9440794/john-looney: accessed 23 June 2023), memorial page for Chief John Looney (1776–16 May 1846), Find a Grave Memorial ID 9440794, citing Congressional Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA; Maintained by CMWJR (contributor 50059520).