Oo-na-olar-lar ‘William M.’ Scraper

William was a Cherokee man

Biography

Cherokee Name: " Oo-na-olar-lar" William M Scraper diied of Consumption aka : Tuberculosis TB, contracted TB sometime before he enlisted to fight with his father's regiment. He furloughed for illness and later died, Louisa and the girls tended to him all night for his wounds but he died the next day. They had to keep him quiet, because people were searching for him all night. He is buried in Scraper Cemetery, near Christie, Adair County Oklahoma.

Sources

Ancestry.com *Cherokee Family Records

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Scraper-47

ii. William M. Scraper, b. 25 Dec 1838 on the " Trail of Tears ", d. 13 Sep 1864, military 4 Oct 1861 in Enrolled , Ft. Gibson, Capt. George W. Scraper's Co., 1st Regt., Cherokee Mounted Riflemen.

                     Cherokee name was Oo-na-olar-lar.

Source: Scraper, J. (2009). The Scraper - Sixkiller Book: Genealogy and History of the Scraper and Sixkiller Families of the Cherokee People. Aardvark Global Publishing. Extract from Our Scraper Family Compiled by Joe Scraper Jr. @ https://scraperfamily.angelfire.com/texts/Scraper.htm