Ga Ho Ga

Ga Ho Ga

Parents unknown. By an unknown partner, mother of Dorcas & Nancy. By a man perhaps called Lightfoot, 2 sons, George & William, who had no known children.

• mother of Ga Ho Ga ‘Nancy’ Adair who married 1) James Foster, Sr. 2) John Adair
• mother of Dorcas Duncan, sister of Ga Ho Ga who married 1) Bob "the Bench" Benge 2) Trapper Young Charles Gordon Duncan
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kdYSSi-4bovFX0Zt-QBcxO54JK7jbZW... for study
• https://www.geni.com/discussions/179495?msg=1209169 to discuss

Research notes:

On the supposition that Dr. Emmett Starr, in his genealogies of Old Cherokee Families, missed a generation in connection with Nancy Foster Adair and Dorcas Benge Duncan, many researchers list a Cherokee woman of the Deer clan, named Ga ho ga, as their mother. Starr lists no parents and records Nancy and Dorcas as full-blood women of the Deer Clan. James HIcks and Don Shadburn, both of whom compiled extensive genealogical informationnn on the Cherokee, list her as the wife of a white man named Lightfoot, making Nancy and Dorcas mixed-blood Cherokees. There is no conclusive documentation to confirm who Lightfoot might have been or if in fact he was the father of the two women.

Nancy died about 1790 when her oldest child was only 8 or 9 years old and her children were brought up by a white step-mother. An 1836 document refers to Dorcas as a half-blood woman. Testimony given in 1877 by Nancy's grandson Judge John T Adair made no mention of the Lightfoot name, stating "My grandfather John Adair had two families his first wife was a Cherokee woman named Nancy Forster." None of the grandchildren of Nancy or Dorcas who filed an Eastern Cherokee application mentioned the Lightfoot name.

Records of the Moravian missionaries include references to two men named George and Will as uncles of James Foster, son of Nancy and her first husand. Neither man left any known descendants.