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