Jesse Halfbreed

Jesse was a Cherokee man

Biography

Jesse was born in 1800. He was the son of Big Halfbreed and Gua-li-uka Crittenden. He fathered ten children by two women, Alkinneh Downing and Jennie Fields. According to Emmet Starr, the children were Margaret, Sarah, Stand, Tiana, Melvina, Mary, Eliza, Richard, Elizabeth, and James. [1] Two daughters, Margaret and Betsy, filed Eastern Cherokee applications in 1906; each listed a slightly different set of children, named only Alkinneh as their mother, and gave different death dates for their father. The 1851 Drennan Roll lists Alkinneh with seven children. [2] The family was Removed to Indian Territory over the Trail of Tears. According to daughter Margaret, Jesse died October 15, 1842. [3]

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 448 Digitized edition at Starr
2. ↑ Drennen Roll of “Emigrant Cherokee,” 1851. Series 7RA-01. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. Flint District, p. 65, #89.
3. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Court of Claims, Record Group 75. Application #4286, daughter Peggy Taylor.

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