Nannie Daniel

Nanny Still was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Marmaduke Daniel an Englishman married Nannie Still a "full blood Cherokee" and had a son James, of mixed blood, who married Mary Buffington, a mixed blood Cherokee. Mary was the daughter of Ezekiel Buffington, an English American trader who immigrated from Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Mary Emory, who was 1/4 Cherokee. Mary Emory was the granddaughter of Ludovic Grant, a Scotsman and early trader.

Nannie Still was probably born about 1770 in the Cherokee Nation. She married a white man named Marmaduke Daniel about 1785. They were the parents of nine children, James, Moses, Catherine, Mary, Walker, John Ross, Nannie, Jennie, and Thomas. [1] [2] Her date of death is unknown.

Sources
1. # Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 499. Digitized edition at Starr
2. # National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee applications of the Court of Claims, application #3531, granddaughter Eliza Hill

Source: WikiTree @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Still-1175
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SOURCE: Governor's Letter Book, Georgia Archives.

“Nannie Still was a full blood Cherokee. It is speculative that Nannie Still was either the daughter of a white man named Still or the former wife of a white man named Still, but her Anglo name indicates some type of connection.
Whenever there is an all Cherokee person, they usually have only a Cherokee name. This in regard to a petition: "March 8, 1835, Cobb Co. Petition of Indian Nancy Still to Gov. Lumpkin.
Governor Wilson Lumpkin took immediate action, and wrote March 21, 1835 to Col. Charles H. Nelson "Sir.
Through a mistake of the Surveyor of the 16th district of the 2nd Section, it has been satisfactorily shown to this Department, that a grant has been issued for lot number 963 in said district, when if fact, that lot is in the occupancy of a native (Cherokee) woman Nancy Still who has improved the same by her own labout, and is justily entitled to the quite occupancy of the same. Under these circumstances, it appears to me that she should not be interrupted, and that the late act of the Legislature should not be so construed as to operate obvious injustice to a poor unfortunate Woman.
Major Cleveland, to whose care I intend to confide this communication, can give you fill and satisfactory information on this subject.Very respectfully Your obt' Serv't, Wilson Lumpkin"”

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Marmaduke Daniel.” Genealogy.com, Https://www.genealogy.com/Ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0008-0002.Html, 2023, https://www.genealogy.com/.