Annie (Tucker) Ledford
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Anne Tucker (Tucker) Ledford (abt. 1760 - 1844)

Anne Tucker (Annie) "Nancy" Ledford formerly Tucker aka Consennah, Conseenah, Conseene
Born about in Nash, Rowan County, Colony of North Carolinamap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1779 in Randolph County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 84 in Scrougetown, Clay County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

Anne was born about 1760.

Not very much is known about Anne Tucker Ledford other than her name, what we see in the census concerning her age and her death date from her original stone located in the Ledford Chapel Cemetery in Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina. [1]

For events in her life as they occurred with her husband Peter G. Ledford see his profile.

Name

Peter's wife's name being Anne Tucker is attested by a group of descendants in 1896 applying to the Dawes Commission for Cherokee Pensions. This group of descendants were children and grandchildren of Peter and Anne's children Levi and Eli Ledford, brothers. They were first claiming Cherokee heritage on Jerusha Pittman, Levi's wife, but they also named Peter's wife as Anne Tucker. Later, when it became apparent that Jerusha was not listed on any of the earlier rolls, the families claimed on Peter's wife, now called Anne Conseenah/Conseene (and other spellings)[2]. At this time the agents at the Bureau of Indian Affairs noted that evidence suggested that Peter's wife was actually Anne Tucker, since the oldest applicant, Elbert Burton Ledford, would have been at least 16 years old when Anne died and would have personal knowledge of his grandmother.

The NY on her gravestone is believed by me (Paul Selk) to be a contraction of 'Nancy'. Nancy is a form of the name Anne, and whoever was making the stones for Anne and her husband apparently didn't worry too much about abbreviating names. viz Peter Ledford's original stone in Ledford Chapel Cemetery in which the name Ledford is abbreviated to LD[3].

The other name for Peter's wife, Martha Y. Thomas, should represent the same woman. There is no evidence that Peter was married twice.

Date of death

At the time when Anne passed away a stone was made for her with the inscription:

NY. LEDFORD
Jun 24 1844

She was buried in the old Ledford Chapel Cemetery, which was moved in 1941. At the time it was moved by the TVA, an inventory of the grave made note of this stone, and her descendants agreed that it was her date of death[4]. Decades later, another stone was placed at her grave with the date 24 Jun 1828. At that time in history, Peter and Anne were living near the Little Tennessee River in southern Macon County, North Carolina. The area in which the Ledford Chapel Cemetery is located was still in the possession of the Cherokee. Not to mention, she appears in both the 1830[5] and 1840[6] censuses. I respectfully submit that the new stone for "Martha Y. Thomas" over Anne's burial site is in error.

Sources

  1. Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 06 February 2022), memorial page for Annie “Nancy” Tucker Ledford (unknown–24 Jun 1844), Find A Grave: Memorial #187419246, citing Old Ledford Chapel Cemetery, Hayesville, Clay County, North Carolina, USA; maintained by LB (contributor 48197772), headstone photo.
  2. Jerry Wright Jordan, CHEROKEE BY BLOOD: RECORDS OF THE EASTERN CHEROKEE ANCESTRY IN THE U.S. COURT OF CLAIMS, 1906-1910, Bowie, MD.: Heritage Books, Inc. 1987
  3. Peter Ledford's original grave stone in the Ledford Chapel Cemetery, Hayesville, North Carolina.
  4. Tennessee Valley Authority, Atlanta, Georgia; Records of the removal and relocation of Ledford Chapel Cemetery #1, Hayesville, NC, 1941.
  5. National Archives and Records Administration; Population Schedules of the Fifth Census of the United States, 1830; Microcopy 19, Roll 123 - North Carolina, Vol. 6, Macon; Page 25. Can be viewed online here.
  6. National Archives and Records Administration; Population Schedules of the Sixth Census of the United States, 1840; Microcopy 704, Roll 357 - North Carolina, Vol. 2, Cherokee; Page 237. Can be viewed online here.




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Consennah-1 and Tucker-2506 appear to represent the same person because: they share a similar birth year and the same daughter, Eleanor/Ellender. The name, "Consennah," is mentioned in the biography of Annie Tucker. The difference in death dates needs to be rectified.
posted by Linda (Johnson) Leslie
Tucker-11207 and Tucker-2506 appear to represent the same person because: This is the same person. Death date discrepancy is explained in Tucker-2506 because a new gravestone was added, which does not match the previous one that was documented.
Tucker-2506 and Tucker-4455 appear to represent the same person because: When I created my tree, your Annie Tucker didn't show up in the list of potential matches, but they represent the same person. Thank you.
posted by Paul Selk

Rejected matches › Annie I. Tucker

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