Go-Gv-Ye-Le-S-Gi ‘George’ Sanders

George is a Cherokee man

Biography

George Sanders was the son of Mitchell Saunders, and was born in Talking Rock, Cherokee Nation, North Carolina.

According to information on his sons grave, (James Sanders 1802-1875) George and wife, Jane "Jennie" Pritchett Sanders are both buried in this cemetery, and both died on October 6, 1845.

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178051575/george-sanders
George Sanders discovered in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, U.S., Indian Censuses and Rolls, 1851-1959 - https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26618236?h=76be27
Photo of George Sanders contributed by Debbie Ferguson - https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26618246?h=374847
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Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sanders-10749
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GEORGE GO-GV-YE-LE-S-GI SANDERS (MITCHELL1) was born Abt. 1774 in CNE [GA], and died Abt. 1836 in Salem, NC.
He married JENNIE PRITCHETT 1799 in CNE, daughter of JOHN GI-TSU-GO-NV PRITCHETT. She was born Abt. 1773 in Scear Corn Creek, CNE [Gilmer Co, GA], and died October 06, 1845 in CNW.

• 1835 Census roll: Talkingrock Cr, Gilmer Co, GA, 1m18-, 3m18+, 1f16-, 2f16+
• 1835 Smith Resolution: Chatooga, voted Nay; anti-treaty
• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Susannah)
• Residence: 1808, Suwanee Old Town
• Signer: July 08, 1817, Treaty of July 8, 1817
• Starr's Notes: C639

More About JENNIE PRITCHETT:

• Starr's Notes: C639

Children of GEORGE SANDERS and JENNIE PRITCHETT are:
17. i. ELSIE3 SANDERS, b. Abt. 1798; d. April 12, 1868.
18. ii. WALTER CHAMBERS SANDERS, b. Abt. 1790; d. Abt. 1854.
19. iii. JAMES U-WA-HU-NV-TI SANDERS, b. Abt. 1808, CNE [GA]; d. December 29, 1875.

	iv.	 	SAMUEL SANDERS, b. Abt. 1810; d. Abt. 1863; m. GI-GA-U MEANMAN; b. Abt. 1810.

	v.	 	ELIZABETH SANDERS, b. Abt. 1814; d. Abt. 1862.

20. vi. NICHOLAS BYERS SANDERS, b. Abt. 1816; d. December 18, 1872, CNW.
21. vii. NANNIE SANDERS, b. Abt. 1818; d. Abt. 1878.
22. viii. JESSE SANDERS, b. 1820; d. May 04, 1887, CNW.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Mitchell Sanders” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, 2023, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0025...
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George Sanders was born abt 1772 in Cherokee Nation, Gilmer, I.T. East, Ga.

• 1/2 breed Cherokee.
• About 57 years old in 1829. Born and raised in the south­eastern Cherokee Nation.
• He and his brother Alexander were living at Suwanee Old Town in 1807 & 1808. Ref: Dec. 1829, Gen. John Coffee’s papers. Microfilm reel 101-3 at the Geo. Dept. of Archives and History/frame 479.
• Was a signer of the treaty of July 8, 1817.
• He was one of the commission to “lay off” New Echota, capitol of the Cherokee Nation, East in 1825.
• Owned 38 slaves.
• George married Jennie Pritchett, daughter of John “Keeshukon” Pritchett (need source for name) in 1799 in Cherokee Nation.
• Jennie was born about 1773 in Scear Corn Creek, Gilmer, I.T. East, Ga. She died 6 Oct 1845 in I.T. West, Okla. George and Jennie had the following children:

1. Elsie Sanders was born about 1794. Elsie married Maxwell Chambers.
2. Walter Sanders was born about 1795 in Gilmer?, I.T. East, Ga. Before removal believed to have lived on Coosawatie River, Ga. Owned 2 slaves. Walter married Sallie.
3. Samuel Sanders. Sam lived in Going­snake Dist. Was a member of the First Indian Home Guard of the Cherokee. Samuel married Cheo Ka-Yoo-A Meanman in Going Snake, I.T.
4. James “Jim” Sanders was born about 1796/1799.
5. Nannie Sanders was born about 1800. Nannie married Joseph Spears.
6. Elizabeth Sanders was born about 1802. Had no children.
7. Nicholas Byers Sanders was born about 1804. He died after 1862 in Indian Territory, Okla. Was member of First Indian Home Guard Regiment of the Cherokee, during Civil War. Private in Company E. Nicholas mar­ried Sallie Eagle.
8. Jesse Sanders was born 1820 in Cherokee Nation, I.T. East. He died 4 May 1887 in Cherokee, Indian Territory, Okla. Member of the First Indian Home Guard Regiment of the Cherokee, during the Civil War. Buried Sec. 26, T16N, Cherokee County. Jesse married Caroline Catron.

Source: Meyers, Charlotte M. “Sanders Siftings.” July 1997, pg. 4
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George Sanders was the son of Mitchell Saunders, and was born in Talking Rock, Cherokee Nation, Georgia.

According to information on his sons grave, (James Sanders 1802-1875) George and wife, Jane "Jennie" Pritchett Sanders are both buried in this cemetery, and both died on October 6, 1845.

Source: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178051575/george-sanders: accessed 21 April 2023), memorial page for George “Go-Gv-Ye-Le-S-Gi” Sanders (1772–6 Oct 1845), Find a Grave Memorial ID 178051575, citing Caney Cemetery, Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA; Maintained by Laura (Young) Hanley (contributor 48445545).
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Cherokee Nation 6th Dec. 1829.

George Saunders, a half breed Cherokee, aged about fifty seven states that he was born and raised in the southeastern part of the Cherokee Nation: that he has always since he was grown been familiar with what was thought to be the line that divided the lands of the Creek Nation from those of the Cherokees as claimed by the Cherokee Nation ,and which was as follows: Beginning at the old Cherokee corner, which stands about 25 miles east of the High Shoals of the Appalachy, and to run thence to the said High Shoals of Appalachy, and thence a direct line to the mouth of Will's Creek on the Coosa River.- This was the understanding of the Cherokees so far as I have understood it. The above statement is made at the special request of General Coffee United States Commissioner, desiring me to state what I know of the old and true line between the Creeks and Cherokees, and which is as stated above according to the best of my knowledge and recollection.

I have never known of but one place called the Sawanah Old Town, and but one place called Buzzard Roost, and they both on the Chattahoochy and are generally known by those names. He further states that his brother Alexander Saunders was living at the Old Sawanah Town on the Chattahoochy River about the year 1807 or 1808, and at the same time a man by the name of Rhode Easley, a citizen of Georgia, who formerly had a store at the High Shoals of the Appalachy, and he had also a stock of cattle and established a cow pen on the west side of the Appalachy about 4 or 5 miles west of the High Shoals and settled a stock keeper there-that Alexander Sanders (sic) and Thomas Woodward, a half breed raised a company of Cherokees and went to Easley's cow pen and drove off the family and burnt the improvement as being on Cherokee lands.-He thinks this took place 21 or 22 years ago. his mark ‘x’ GEORGE SANDERS

Source: Harris, R. D. (1830, May 15). Cherokee Phoenix. Cherokee Phoenix | DOCUMENTS | Volume 3, Number 4; Published May, 15, 1830. Retrieved April 20, 2023, from https://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CherokeePhoenix/Vol3...