Richard Riley (1784 - 1824)

Born 6 Apr 1784 in Tennessee

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Died 26 Apr 1824 at age 40 in Creek Path, Alabama

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Biography

Richard was Cherokee.

Richard Riley was born in the Cherokee Nation (East) about 1784. He was the son of Samuel Riley, a white trader, and Gu-Lu-Sti-Yu Doublehead, a Cherokee woman. He was one of eleven children of Samuel who were baptized by the Rev. Evan Jones on the 22nd of April, 1805. ^[1] Richard took a reservation under the treaty of 1817 "within the chartered limits of Alab. Ter. " ^[2] He married Diana Campbell and they were the parents of two daughters, Jennie and Elizabeth. ^[3] (James Hicks believes there was a third daughter, Annie). Richard's death date is uncertain; he does not appear on the 1835 Cherokee Census.

Sources

1. ↑ transcript at Jones
2. ↑ Hampton, David K. , compiler Cherokee Reservees. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1979. Images at Fold3. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75. p. 13
3. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 432 . Digitized edition at https://archive.org/details/historyofcheroke00lcstar/page/n5

• see also:
• Walker, Rickey Butch. Doublehead: Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief . Alabama, 2012. p. 49. NOTE: The genealogy portion of this book is lacking sources.