Ruth Wilson

Ruth was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Ruth Drumgoole was born about 1790 in the Cherokee Nation (East), the daughter of Nancy, a Cherokee woman, and Alexander Drumgoole. [1]
Ruth and her sister Nannie both had children with John Foreman. Ruth and John were the parents of Johnson Foreman. [2] She married George Wilson, also Cherokee, about 1810. They were the parents of William, Mary, Elizabeth, Archibald, Rebecca, Alexander, George, Ruth, Anderson, John and Malinda. George Wilson signed his family up to emigrate in 1833. At that time there were eight in the family. They arrived in Indian Territory on May 8, 1834. Sons Alex, William, and Archibald were also with them. [3] Ruth does not appear with George on the 1851 Old Settler Roll. [4]
Ruth died in 1850 and George died in 1851. They are buried at the Wilson Cemetery, Muskogee County, Oklahoma. [5] [6] https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=cRM1AQAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA952&h...
Research Notes

The subject of this profile is a matrilineal ancestor of one mtDNA tester at FTDNA reporting Hg=C1c.
Emmet Starr also listed Ruth as the daughter of William Springston, but that appears to be incorrect. Ruth named a son "Alexander Drumgoole Wilson"; other sources including Eastern Cherokee applications and statements by grandchildren [7] list her name as Drumgoole.

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 630. Digitized edition at Starr
2. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims, Application #9401, granddaughter Susan Foreman Lynch
3. ↑ Baker, Jack D. transcriber. Cherokee Emigration Rolls 1817-1835. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1977. Original Records: National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1793-1999. pp. 33 & 49
4. ↑ Hampton, David K., transcriber. Cherokee Old Settlers, combined transcript of 1851 and 1896 Old Settler Payrolls. 1993. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75, Microfilms T985 and 7RA34. p. 262
5. ↑ Tyner, James & Timmons, Alice. Our People and Where They Rest. University of Oklahoma, Norman. Vol. III, 1970. p. 47
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6438947/ruth-wilson : accessed 14 April 2022), memorial page for Ruth Drumgoole Wilson (1792–7 Dec 1850), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6438947, citing Wilson Cemetery, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA ; Maintained by R Burnett (contributor 47445819) . From FaG

Cemetery plat, circa 1970, from American Indian Institute's OPAWTR, Book 3. Tyner recorded her as "Ruthy" Wilson. At plot 3 on this map.

Possible headstone of Ruth Drumgoole Foreman Wilson
7. ↑ D.C. Gideon, Indian Territory, Descriptive, Biographical and Genealogical: Including the Landed Estates, County Seats, Etc., Etc., with a General History of the Territory, p. 952 digitized at [Indian Territory, Descriptive, Biographical and Genealogical: Including the Landed Estates, County Seats, Etc., Etc., with a General History of the Territory Gideon]

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Drumgoole-12
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RUTH2 DRUMGOOLE (ALEXANDER1) was born Abt. 1788 in CNE [TN], and died Abt. 1851 in Saline Dist, CNW.
She married (1) JOHN FOREMAN Bef. 1808, son of JOHN FOREMAN and SUSIE TI-TA-S-GI-S-GI. He was born Abt. 1780 in CNE [TN], and died 1807.
She married (2) GEORGE W WILSON, SR Abt. 1810, son of THOMAS WILSON and BETSY MCCRARY. He was born Abt. 1790 in CNE [TN], and died August 22, 1850 in Saline Dist, CNW.

• Springston 1 William Springston and Nancy ["The Pain"]
• Springston 1-1 Ruth Springston +John Foreman +George Wilson
• The Drennan roll indicates that the above Nancy _____ is the same as Nannie Drumgoole nee Doublehead +John Foreman (Foreman 1-1, pg 363) and that both Ruth and Nancy are daughters of Alexander Drumgoole and Nannie Augusta, a full blood (who also married Richard Fields, a white man).
• Thus Ruth [Drumgoole] is listed by Starr as both Ruth Springston and Ruth Drumgoole in separate references

On page 542 of Starr's History of the Cherokee, in the biography for Breedlove, Starr mentions "Mrs Malinda Chisholm married in January 1836 William [Wilson], son of George and Ruth (Springston) Wilson,..."
"Indian Territory", Gideon, 1901, page 952, biography of Winfield Scott Audrain;

• ..."a son of James P and Mary (Wilson) Audrain, and a grandson of George and Ruth (Dungould) Wilson."
• ..."Our subject's maternal grandmother, Mrs Ruth Wilson, was a daughter of Alexander and Nancy Augusta Dungould, the former a white man, the latter of Cherokee blood.
• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Burial: McClain Creek on Maynard Bayou, Saline Dist, CNW

Notes for JOHN FOREMAN:

• Starr lists two wives for John Foreman; Nannie Drumgoole nee Doublehead and Ruth Springston.

John's children are listed by Starr as five sets of half-siblings.A statement of James Madison Bell indicates that Elizabeth's (one of the two Elizabeth's in this family) mother was Jennie Foster.

• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Clan: Ani'-Wâ'di = Red Paint (Susie Gourd)

More About GEORGE W WILSON, SR:

• 1817-19 Reservations: July 21, 1819, #202, two miles from Austin Rider's, 4 in family
• 1851 Old Settler roll: Illinois, 260 (1895 page 171)
• Burial: McClain Creek on Maynard Bayou, Saline Dist, CNW
• Emigration: 1834, Indian Territory, OK
• Military service: 1814, under Cap John Spears; Horse Shoe Bend
• RG75, E545 Reg of BLW: June 19, 1857, BLW# 75630 by A D Wilson, gdn of minor daughter, Malinda

Child of RUTH DRUMGOOLE and JOHN FOREMAN is:
12. i. JOHNSON3 FOREMAN, b. January 01, 1808; d. June 28, 1872.

Children of RUTH DRUMGOOLE and GEORGE WILSON are:
13. ii. WILLIAM3 WILSON, SR, b. October 14, 1811; d. June 30, 1897.
14. iii. ELIZABETH WILSON, b. Abt. 1814, CNE [GA].
15. iv. ARCHIBALD M WILSON, b. 1815; d. March 18, 1871, California.
16. v. ALEXANDER DRUMGOOL WILSON, b. 1817, CNE [GA]; d. March 23, 1858.
17. vi. MARY J WILSON, b. 1821, Tennessee; d. September 1893.
18. vii. REBECCA WILSON, b. 1823; d. Bet. 1880 - 1902.
19. viii. GEORGE W WILSON, JR, b. 1825, CNE [NC]; d. April 21, 1888.
20. ix. RUTH WILSON, b. Abt. 1827; d. Bet. 1855 - 1895.

	x.	 	JOHN WILSON, b. 1828; d. Aft. 1906.

• 1851 Old Settler roll: Delaware, 31 (1895 page 9)
• 1894-96 O.S. payroll: Grizley Flats, CA, page 9 (Emily W Breedlove, atty)
• Education: September 28, 1840, New Spring Place Mission School
• Residence: 1906, California

21. xi. ANDERSON SPRINGSTON WILSON, b. 1830; d. December 26, 1865.
22. xii. MALINDA WILSON, b. August 26, 1834; d. Aft. 1906.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Alexander Drumgoole, Sr” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com, 2023, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0011...
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