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Run After McLemore

Cherokee: Ga-Na-Lu-Gi
Also Known As: "Benge", "Lowery"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cherokee Nation East
Death:
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Daughter of John McLemore, Sr. and Noo Na Lo
Wife of Col. John Lowrey and John "Wagonmaster" Benge
Mother of Jennie Benge and Eliza Benge
Sister of John McLemore, Jr.

Managed by: Stephanie Loeffert Albright
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About Run After McLemore

Evidence needed to support Runafter as a daughter of John McLemore, Sr. & Noo Na Lo


Family

From https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0031...

8.JOHN4 LOWREY, MAJ (NANNIE3WATTS, GI-GO-NE-LI2I, U-LU-TSE1) was born 1768 in Tennessee, and died 1817.

He married (1) RUNAFTER GA-NE-LU-GI-E MCLEMORE Bef. 1795, daughter of JOHN MCLEMORE and NU-NA-LO.She was born Abt. 1780

Children of JOHN LOWREY and RUNAFTER MCLEMORE are:

  • 19. i. JENNIE5 LOWREY, b. 1795; d. 1865.
  • 20. ii. ELIZA LOWREY, b. Abt. 1805; d. 1873.

Notes

Notes for RUNAFTER GA-NE-LU-GI-E MCLEMORE:

In the Miller application for Henry Lowrey (#562) is a document entitled "Genealogy of the Lowrey Family".It states, in part "Capt. John Lowrey first married Betsey Shorey; they had one child, Betsey, and she married William Pack, Capt.John Lowrey's second wife was a "Runafter" ; their children were; Eliza Lowrey who married Martin Benge, and Jane Lowrey who married Robert Benge.Martin and Robert were both sons of Obediah Benge."


John Benge, possibly the son of the Cherokee Bob “The Bench” Benge, was married to Quatie Conrad and Runafter McLemore. This is the John who led a detachment on the Trail of Tears. He had about ten children, but no daughter named Nancy or Aggie.

From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/benge/540/

Car-Na-Loo-Ge-Acke "Runafter" MCLEMORE was born 1770.
She married Col. John LOWREY (in the Rev. War).He was son of George Charles LOWREY Sr. and
Nancy "Nannie" HOLY CLAN.He was born 1768,and died 1817.After the death of her husband Col. John LOWREY; Car-Na-Loo-Ge-Acke "Runafter" MCLEMORE went on the married John BENGE. John "Wagonmaster" BENGE Chief, son of Robert "Chief Bob Benge" BENGE and Unknown, and the grandson of John "Chief Trader" Benge and Wurteh BIRD CLAN of an indian union.He was born 1787 in Jackson Co., AL [Or 1790].John "Chief Wagonmaster" BENGE was a wagonmaster of one of the wagon trains that forced the Cherokee Indian on the "TRAIL OF TEARS".

Comments

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McLemore-245

According to Don Greene, Shawnee Heritage II, Ganelugi's full name was "Ganelugi Run After McLemore," p242. but I didn't think anybody would believe that so I opted just to use the initials. Here's the excerpt from the book.

References

About Ga-Na-Lu-Gi McLemore (Cherokee)

Family

From https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0031...

8.JOHN4 LOWREY, MAJ (NANNIE3WATTS, GI-GO-NE-LI2I, U-LU-TSE1) was born 1768 in Tennessee, and died 1817.

He married (1) RUNAFTER GA-NE-LU-GI-E MCLEMORE Bef. 1795, daughter of JOHN MCLEMORE and NU-NA-LO.She was born Abt. 1780

Children of JOHN LOWREY and RUNAFTER MCLEMORE are:

  • 19. i. JENNIE5 LOWREY, b. 1795; d. 1865.
  • 20. ii. ELIZA LOWREY, b. Abt. 1805; d. 1873.

Notes

Notes for RUNAFTER GA-NE-LU-GI-E MCLEMORE:

In the Miller application for Henry Lowrey (#562) is a document entitled "Genealogy of the Lowrey Family".It states, in part "Capt. John Lowrey first married Betsey Shorey; they had one child, Betsey, and she married William Pack, Capt.John Lowrey's second wife was a "Runafter" ; their children were; Eliza Lowrey who married Martin Benge, and Jane Lowrey who married Robert Benge.Martin and Robert were both sons of Obediah Benge."


John Benge, possibly the son of the Cherokee Bob “The Bench” Benge, was married to Quatie Conrad and Runafter McLemore. This is the John who led a detachment on the Trail of Tears. He had about ten children, but no daughter named Nancy or Aggie.

From https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/benge/540/

Car-Na-Loo-Ge-Acke "Runafter" MCLEMORE was born 1770.
She married Col. John LOWREY (in the Rev. War).He was son of George Charles LOWREY Sr. and
Nancy "Nannie" HOLY CLAN.He was born 1768,and died 1817.After the death of her husband Col. John LOWREY; Car-Na-Loo-Ge-Acke "Runafter" MCLEMORE went on the married John BENGE. John "Wagonmaster" BENGE Chief, son of Robert "Chief Bob Benge" BENGE and Unknown, and the grandson of John "Chief Trader" Benge and Wurteh BIRD CLAN of an indian union.He was born 1787 in Jackson Co., AL [Or 1790].John "Chief Wagonmaster" BENGE was a wagonmaster of one of the wagon trains that forced the Cherokee Indian on the "TRAIL OF TEARS".

Comments

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McLemore-245

According to Don Greene, Shawnee Heritage II, Ganelugi's full name was "Ganelugi Run After McLemore," p242. but I didn't think anybody would believe that so I opted just to use the initials. Here's the excerpt from the book.

References

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Run After McLemore's Timeline

1780
1780
Cherokee Nation East
1795
1795
Cherokee, Alabama, USA
1805
1805
Long, Cherokee, Alabama, USA
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