Jennie Lovett

Jennie was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Jennie Lowrey was born about 1780 in the Cherokee Nation (East), the daughter of George Lowrey. a white man, and his Cherokee wife Nan-ye-hi. According to Emmet Starr she was the wife of Tahlonteskee. She married Robert Lovett, also Cherokee, about 1815. They were the parents of George, [1] and according to James Hicks, Jesse, William, Sarah, and Robert. [2] The couple appears on the 1835 Cherokee census living in what is now Blount County, Alabama with three children. Jesse is living nearby. [3] The family was Removed to Indian Territory in the Benge detachment. [4] They reached Indian Territory, [5] but Jennie's death date is unknown since neither she nor Robert appears on the 1851 Drennan Roll.

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 367. Digitized edition at Starr
2. ↑ James Hicks' Cherokee Lineages, Hicks
3. ↑ 1835 Cherokee Census, transcription published by the Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill, OK. 2002. Original records: National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm publication T496, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi with Index. pp. 12,13
4. ↑ Muster roll of John Benge detachment. 4026.707. John Ross Papers. September 28, 1838. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/4026707 (02/19/2018).
5. ↑ Stricklin, Dawn, compiler. Cherokee Claims. National Archives and Records Administration Special File 154, Vol. 1 M574, Roll 32. Heritage Books, Westminster, MD. 2007. p. 129