Silas Scruggs Stacy

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Source: http://genforum.com/ray/messages/11821.html Re: from cherokee tribal archive project, att ross smith, ace maupin, raymond ray Posted by: Ace Maupin (ID *****4165) Date: January 10, 2009 at 09:06:46 In Reply to: Re: from cherokee tribal archive project, att ross smith, ace maupin, raymond ray by james lee ray of 13296 Well some of this stuff James is lost to time and distruction of records, War of 1812 Cival War. So we are missing whole decades of valueable records. In this Madison Garrard Jessemine area it seems persons were taken by their social status and church farming abilities rather than what they may have looked like.. I would like to show some examples. Thomas Land had a Indian Moravian wife Martha. His son James Land has no remarks other than farmer. But his brother Lemon Land settled somewhere in North Carolins recored FPC. Jack Coy or Indian Jack a son of Miami Shawnee chief took the name of His step father Prewitt. All thier children grandchildren which are the Brodious Burtons many others are listed as White or Farmers. John Bolen Bowling his Sister Elizbeth who married James Land listed farmer. Yet John Bolens cousin in Tenn was listed FPC. Hiram Land listed white farmer but son Cassius Clay Land listed Indian.. Below is a story about Samuel Rays in law Rebecca Griffith. Its seems different strokes for different folks. Rebecca Griffith Stacy brother was Samuel Griffith. He married Sarah Teater 1791. Sarah Teaters brother was Samuel Teater who married Elizabeth Ray. Thier daughter Susanah Teater married Samuel Ray son of Zacharia Ray. So Rebecca Griffith Stacy was then a auntie of Samuel Rays wife Susanah.. Samuel Teators father George Teater Sr 1st wife Sarah Pearis Parris died 1794. He is listed as marrying Esther Griffith 1796 and his son in law Samuel Griffith is listed as bondsman. Below is a article about Rebecca Griffith and tribulations she was Samuel Griffiths sister. Volume 1, Number 3 Spring 1962 Silas Shruggs Stacey - Involuntary Pioneer By Dorothy Cummings A few years ago the term "displaced person" came into our language to describe the unfortunates in Europe who had been uprooted from their homes and forced to seek a new life in alien surroundings because of war or adverse political conditions, Americans who have seen the misery of a DP camp can never forget it. Usually we take pride in the help that the United States has given in supplying food, clothing, medicine, and a chance for a new life to these people, Our government's generosity in this area is an accepted practice now, whether done for humanitarian reasons or used as an instrument of foreign policy, Our government was not always so concerned with the welfare of the DP, During part of the last century, the official policy was directed toward the deliberate displacement of thousands of people rather than toward giving them protection and material assistance, This is the story of one of those displaced persons, an involuntary pioneer, who came to Missouri in the 1830s. On a hot summer day of 1915 Dr. Silas Shruggs Stacey was helping carry shingles up a ladder to the men who were re-roofing his house. He became ill and before the new roof was tested by the fall rains, he was dead, His death came as a shock to his family and friends, for although he had convinced many of them that he had recently celebrated his 103rd birthday, he was in such good health and so active that they would have bet on his living many years longer. Having been born in Jackson County in the eastern part of Kentucky in 1829, Silas Stacey was a few years short of his 103rd birthday. But by adding 17 years to his already advanced age did no one any harm, and a little exaggeration usally made any story better. In 1829, Silas's parents, Wilham and Rebecca Stacey, were to be allowed only a few more years in Kentucky. Before their son had reached his teens, they along with thousands of other families, were driven from their homes to be resettled in Okla- homa. The Cherokees had become peaceful farmers, members of the Five Civilized Tribes. White Americans envied the prosperous farms, and when gold was discavered in the tribal territories, the fate of the Indians was settled. Discriminatory laws were enacted against them, no white man could hire an Indian, Cherokees could not serve as witnesses in any court, they could not assemble, and they could not make contracts. President Jackson, no lover of Indians, and later Van Baron, permitted and at times encouraged the confiscation of property and remova1 of the Indians. Between 1832 and 1839, by fraud, bribery, persuasion and especially by brutal force, the Indians were driven out. Many who tried to defend their homes were shot or bayoneted, Others were killed as an example to those who were slow to move out, Army troops under General Winfield Scott moved into Cherokee capital in 1837, routed the Cherokees from their peaceful pursuits and herded 18,000 of them, at gunpoint, across 1,000 miles of near wilderness. William Stacey, with his Cherokee wife, and Silas joined the caravan at Hopkinsville in southwestern Kentucky. On the trek through southern Illinois to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, over 3,500 died of disease and the cold on the "Trail of Tears." Silas may have been too young to remember vividly the forced march, but by the time he reached voting age, he had decided the party 'of Jackson and Van Buren was not one that merited his vote. By the time the caravan arrived at the village of Springfield, Missouri, the Staceys decided to settle there rather than continue the journey to Oklahoma. William built a log cabin near the area where the Springfield Wagon Rotary once stood and later they moved to the Smallen Cavern on Finley Creek, near Ozark. Mr. Walter F. Lackey, Editor of the publication for the Newton County [11] (Arkansas) Historical Society in a letter to Mr. Elmo Ingen thron, says, . . I visited the Smallen Cavern and it is a wonder to see. The cavern front is about 60 feet wide and about 40 feet high and the ceiling rock tapers several hundred feet back. The floor is solid rock and nearly level with a nice stream of water running down the center. An ideal place for a home. From the little ravine that runs down to a branch of Finley Creek, sign of early wagon travel in the rock is still visible. The article (in the Springfield Art Museum Collection) said that Indians in their travels stopped and stayed with the Staceys in the cavern. Several wagons could be parked under the cavern at one time." This summer, the wagons are more apt to be station wagons. The cavern is being developed as a "tourist attrac tion" with the top of the hill levelled off for a parking lot, and the string of lights stretching back into the cavern gives it the appearance of a Holland Tunnel of the Ozarks.. The author made a spelling mistake Rebecca Griffiths father Jonas Griffith settled in Jackson Tenn not Kentucky But he did live with the Teater family from 1787 to about 1790 something. He himself was the little boy pack mule boy that was captured by the shawnee on Daniel Boones expedition into Kentucky. He ran off from the Shawnee when he was older. Ace Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: from cherokee tribal archive project, att ross smith, ace maupin, raymond ray james lee ray 1/10/09 Re: from cherokee tribal archive project, att ross smith, ace maupin, raymond ray Ace Maupin 1/10/09 to ace, dna and ect.... james lee ray 1/10/09 Re: to ace, dna and ect.... Ace Maupin 1/11/09 Re: to ace, dna and ect.... Carl RAY 1/11/09 Re: to ace, dna and ect.... Ace Maupin 1/11/09 Re: to ace, dna and ect.... Carl RAY 1/13/09 Re: to ace, dna and ect.... Ace Maupin 1/13/09 Re: to ace, dna and ect.... 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