Jane Cookson

Wife of Joseph Cookson. M/o Elizabeth (Wiggins); John Hildebrand Cookson; and Nancy Cookson (Pettit). Dau. of Michael & Nancy [Martin] Hildebrand. Inscription: "54 years" (sic)

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Nancy Martin, the daughter of Betsy/Elizabeth Ward and General Joseph Martin was born about 1778, Cherokee Nation East. She had only one husband, Michael HIldebrand. He had a second wife, Lucy Absher.. Nancy died in April, 1837, Cherokee Nation East. Nancy and :Michael were the parents of 12 children: Elizabeth, John, Jane, Margaret, Delilah, Eliza, Stephen, Rachel, Nancy, Joseph, Brice, and Mary.

Jane was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Jane Hildebrand was born in the Cherokee Nation (East) in 1806. She was the daughter of Michael Hildebrand, a white man, and Nannie Martin, a Cherokee. She married Joseph Cookson, a white man, about 1825. The 1835 Cherokee census shows the family living on Okoa Creek (now Tennessee) next to her parents. [1] They were the parents of John, Nancy, Elizabeth, and Jane (died young). The family was Removed to Indian Territory and settled in the Illinois District. [2] Jane died in 1860 and is buried at the Greenleaf Cemetery, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. [3]

Sources

1. ↑ 1835 Cherokee Census. Transcript, Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill Oklahoma, 2002. p. 8
2. ↑ 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-01; NARA Series Title: Drennan Roll. Illinois District, #4.
3. ↑ Tyner, James and Alice. Our People and Where They Rest. privately published, Norman, OK, 1971. Vol. 10, p. 38

See also:
Hampton, David K. Descendants of Nancy Ward. Self-published, Oklahoma, 2021. Vol. I, p. 146.

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hildebrand-1697
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JANE HILDEBRAND (NANCY6MARTIN, ELIZABETH BETSY5WARD, NANCY4, TAME3DOE, NANCY2MOYTOY, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born 1806, and died December 16, 1860 in CNW [Cherokee Co, OK].
She married JOSEPH COOKSON Abt. 1821. He was born Abt. 1798 in Georgia, and died 1865.

• 1851 Drennan roll: Illinois, 4 as Jane Cookson
• Burial: Greenleaf Cem, Tahlequah, Cherokee Co, OK
• Clan: Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan (Nanye'hi)

Notes for JOSEPH COOKSON:

• In Starr's listing of Hildebrand 1-1-3 Joseph's surname is spelled Cooksan.
• 1835 Census roll: Okoa Creek, McMinn Co, TN

Children of JANE HILDEBRAND and JOSEPH COOKSON are:

	i.	 	ELIZABETH8 COOKSON, b. Abt. 1824; d. 1871; m. GEORGE WEIGAND, Bef. 1871; b. 1832; d. 1880.

• 1851 Drennan roll: Illinois, 4
• Clan: Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan (Nanye'hi)

	More About GEORGE WEIGAND:

Burial: Greenleaf Cem, Tahlequah, Cherokee Co, OK
1250. ii. JOHN HILDERBRAND COOKSON, b. October 18, 1826, CNE [TN]; d. June 12, 1918, Oklahoma.
1251. iii. NANCY EMILY COOKSON, b. Abt. 1828; d. Abt. February 09, 1877.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Amatoya Moytoy” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, 2023, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021...