I-Ah-Ne-Cha (Choctaw) Folsom (abt. 1762 - abt. 1824)

Born about 1762 in Choctaw Nation, Mississippi Territory, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died about 1824 at about age 62 in Choctaw Nation, Mississippi Territory, United States

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Biography

I-Ah-Ne-Cha was born about 1762. She passed away before 1825. Although many family legends exist, little was recorded about her life beyond her marriage.

Marriage
Ai-Ne-Chi-Hoyo and her sister married Nathaniel Folsom (1756-1833), a prosperous merchant living among the Choctaw. In the Choctaw society a man of means was allowed plural marriage of two sisters, and they were his chosen brides.^[2] Together with her husband and sister, they would produce some 24 children, 14 of whom were living in 1823.^[3] Some sources attempt to assign the children to their birth mother. The listing below attempts this as well, but discrepancies and errors may exist:

Children of

Nathaniel Folsom^[1][2][4]

Ai Ne Chi Hoyo*	/	I Ah Ne Cha#	/	Disputed
David^		Nathaniel		Isaac^
Rebecca		George		Shame
Rhoda		Samuel		Polly
Israel^		John
Adam		Robert^
Jerry		Billy
McKee
Molly
Edmond
Emily
Amziah
Lucretia
Elizabeth
Solomon
Delilah

* Elizabeth Knowles Folsom lists Ai Ne Chi Hoyo's children as: David, Rebecca, Rhoda, Israel, Adam, Isaac, Jerry, McKee, Edmond, Emily, Amaziah, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Solomon, Delilah, and possibly also Shame, and Polly.^[1]

# Elizabeth Knowles Folsom lists I Ah Ne Cha's children as: Nathaniel, Molly, George, Samuel, John, Robert, and Billy.^[1]

^ H.B. Cushman personal knowledge lists David and Israel as sons of Ai Ne Chi Hoyo; Robert and Isaac as sons of I Ah Ne Cha^[2]

Note: The mentioned Mrs. Conlan in the first quote above is Czarina (Colbert) Conlan, a great-granddaughter of Nathaniel Folsom, who in 1919 began working as the curator of the Native American collection of the museum run by the Oklahoma Historical Society. She provided family knowledge and documentation to Elizabeth Knowles Folsom for the Genealogy of the Folsom Family. That work and other mentions of the family by Cushman, Byington and in publications such as the History of Bethel Presbytery, help place the children with their correct birth mother.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Folsom, Elizabeth Knowles Genealogy of the Folsom family: a revised and extended edition, including English records 1638-1938, published 1938, Reference Volume 2, pages 807-8 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89066140435
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Cushman, H. B. History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians. Headlight Printing House, 1899. p. 387 – 391 https://archive.org/details/histchoctaw00cushrich/page/387/mode/1up
3. ↑ Byington, Cyrus. “Memoir of Nathaniel Folsom, as Told to Cyrus Byington, June 1829.” Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma, http://libraries.ou.edu/locations/docs/westhist/harg.htm. Accessed 1 Sept. 2019. Jay L. Hargett Collection: Box H-57, Folder 59
4. ↑ Impson, Hiram, University of Oklahoma Journalism School, 1915, Folsom Family http://www.folsomfamily.org/Index_files/himpson.rtf

See Also:

• FamilySearch: I Ah Ne Cha GS3G-B1V
• Folsom Family Association of America, Inc.: Descendants of Israel Folsom

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Lucy Glover Family Tree.ged on 20 May 2011.