Born about in Cherokee Nation (East)
Daughter of [father unknown] and Woman of Ani-Wadi Cherokee
Sister of
Utsi'dsata Cherokee, Pumpkin Boy Cherokee, Sequechee Cherokee, Acumo (Cherokee) Melton, Nancy Cherokee and Wah-hatch Cherokee
Wife of
John Watts
— married
about 1750 in Cherokee Nation (East)
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 46
in Cherokee Nation (East)
Profile managers:
Sarah Mason 
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Disputed Origins
- Some online trees call her Gi Yo Sti Ko Yo He, but there is no documentation to support this.
- A previous version of this profile included supposed parents, Wilenawa Moytoy and Wurteh Moytoy. Wilenawa was a contemporary of this woman, and could not be her father. He had no known wife or children.
Biography
This profile represents one of the sisters of Doublehead and Old Tassel. She was probably born about 1735. Her name is not documented anywhere and her parents are unknown.
Children
She was the mother of at least three children:
- John,
- Wurteh, and
- Unacata/Whitemankiller.
A 1777 deposition from Trader Robert Due/Dews stated that Old Tassel was the uncle of the Cherokee John Watts, who was known as “Young Tassel.” [1] In addition, Bob Benge and his brother “The Tail” are described as the nephews of John Watts, supporting the conclusion that their mother was the daughter of John Watts the elder and sister of John Watts the younger. [2]
The white trader John Watts also had a white family.
NOT Her Children
The following have been inaccurately associated as her children: [3]
- NANNIE WATTS, born about 1748 and married George Lowery and they had seven children. Nannie was the daughter of a different Cherokee, not a daughter of the sister of Doublehead.
- GARRETT ZACHARIAH WATTS, born January 8, 1756 and died February 6, 1838. Married Annie (Annis) Selp and had thirteen children.
- Thomas Watts (Big Tom), born about 1764 in Virginia and died in 1832 in Benton, Alabama. He had four children.
- Barsheba Watts
- Benjamin a Watts
- Philip Watts
- Nancy Watts
- Thomas Watts
- Obediah Watson (abt.1770-) -- he was son of a James Watson, a white family
Sources
- ↑ Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, Volume 22, Pages 995-1005, Deposition of Robert Dews concerning relations with Native Americans, January 22, 1777. Image at https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.html/document/csr22-0706
- ↑ American State Papers, James Carey to Governor Blount, March 19, 1793. pp. 437-438, image at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampagecollId=llsp&fileName=007/llsp007.db&recNum=438
- ↑ Unless cited otherwise, these claims come from Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief by Rickey Butch Walker pp. 30-31
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sister of Doublehead by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sister of Doublehead:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sister of Doublehead by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sister of Doublehead:
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~0.39%
Cherie Sharp
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M653347 [compare]
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~0.39%
Karen Hoffman :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Alice (Hoffman) Baratone :
AncestryDNA
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch MC2444554 [compare]
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Rejected matches › Wurteh (Watts) Benge (abt.1745-bef.1814) › Woman of Ani-Wadi Cherokee (abt.1714-abt.1800)
Featured National Park champion connections: Sister of Doublehead is 13 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 21 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 11 degrees from George Catlin, 13 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 18 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 15 degrees from George Grinnell, 24 degrees from Anton Kröller, 15 degrees from Stephen Mather, 22 degrees from Kara McKean, 13 degrees from John Muir, 17 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 24 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Garrett and Thomas Watts were white, not Cherokee.
Per relationship finder: Cherie Sharp (Sharp-1739) is 5th great granddaughter of this person - Summer Orman (Binkley-335) is 6th great grandaughter (through disputed daughter Bathsheba) - Summer and Cherie are a DNA match of 13.1 cM on Chromosome 17 (40,595,864 to 52,183,294) at 2,351 SNPs, indicating 5 generations to MRCA. This is consistent with the paper trail. How interesting!
Also: Binkley-335 DNA match on Family Finder DNA, 38.83cM shared DNA Chuck Gulledge and Summer Orman
I was just reading a comment you made back in 2016 regarding Doublehead's sister as I was following a trail in my family tree. I was just wondering about your comment "how interesting"?. I had to smile. Prior to following my f.t. I had no idea of my relationship to the Cherokee nation. What a surprise! I will not be editing any information and will leave that to the project managers. Wishing you the best. Cherie Sharp