Leonard Looney Hicks

Leonard was a Cherokee man

LEONARD LOONEY HICKS, b. December 24, 1803; d. Aft. 1842;
m. DA-YE-NI; b. Abt. 1802.

• Cherokee Tragedy, The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People, by Thurman Wilkins,

University of Oklahoma Press, Morman and London:
“...by the last week in May they were ready to travel north with Jeremiah Evarts, Treasurer of the American Board, who had visited Brainerd in the meantime.Buck Watie prepared to go with the company [Major Ridge] along with Leonard Hicks, son of the assistant principal chief, and Redbird, a former scholar at Brainerd.”

• Clan: Ani'-Wa'ya = Wolf Clan (Broom)
• Detachment: March 01, 1837, 37-b Dr Young/Maj Ridge (by water)
• Education: June 06, 1813, Spring Place Mission School

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...