There are only 9 named children of Doublehead in the records:
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Bird,
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Peggy,
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Susannah,
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Alcey,
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Tassel,
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Two Heads
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William
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Name unknown
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Saleechee
Two other probable:
10. Nigodagayu
11. Gulustiyu
Saleechie and her unnamed sister are recorded in the “Autobiography of Rev Jacob Young,” quoted in Methodism in Mississippi, Jones, pp 193-195. One sister’s name is unknown, she died before the 1818 census, buried at Colbert home near Colbert’s Ferry per 1834 census. Saleechee died 1846 in Indian Territory.
Sources for the others include depositions of Bird Doublehead and his cousin Catherine Spencer, and Eastern Cherokee applications of descendants. [Eastern Cherokee application 10725, Bird Doublehead, Message board posts by Jim Hicks, Rootsweb, AMERIND-US-SE-L 2002-12 ]
Emmett Starr does not name Gu lu sti yu and Ni go de ga yu as daughters of Doublehead, but their marriage to Samuel Riley and documents related to Doublehead’s estate strongly suggest that they were his daughters.
There is no documentary evidence for the existence of either Cornblossom or Tuckahoe as children of Doublehead. In fact, there is no evidence of them at all prior to Thomas H. Troxel’s 1958 Legion of the Lost Mine.
Keziah’s origin is unknown, although some claim she is named in Catherine Spencer’s deposition. Careful reading shows that Catherine was referring to her aunt, Kateeyah Wilson Doublehead.
Recent research by Don Martini has shown that the name of George Colbert’s second Cherokee wife is actually unknown and that Tuskeahookto is a third wife who married George Colbert in 1834 and was the widow of a man named Tyieska. Source: Don Martini, The Chickasaw Colberts: Corrections to Colbert Family Genealogy, 2015.
Thank you Kathie Forbes for your research.
