Susie (Teetarskeeskee) Foreman (abt. 1750 - abt. 1810)

Born about 1750 in Cherokee Nation (East)

Wife of John Anthony Foreman — married 1780 in Cherokee, Washington, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died about 1810 at about age 60 in Cherokee Nation (East)

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Disputed Origins

A previous version of this profile listed a woman named "Susie Gourd" based on a mis-interpretation of James Hicks' web site. Hicks attempted to "reverse engineer" clans for historical Cherokee people, in this case working from a later woman named "Susie Gourd." There is no evidence for the parents or any maiden name for "Susie." Starr records that her husband, John Foreman, was also married to her niece, Elizabeth. Hicks' theorizes that both women were related to a man named "Teetarskeehee."

Biography

Susie was Cherokee.

Susie was born about 1750 in the Cherokee Nation (East); her father may have been a Cherokee man named “ Teetarskeeskee.” According to Emmet Starr, she was a full-blooded Cherokee of the Blind Savannah clan. ^[1] Susie married John Anthony Foreman, a white man from Pennsylvania, about 1780. They were the parents of six children: John, Thomas, Catherine, Nannie, Sallie, and Richard. ^[2] Susie's death date is unknown. The records of the Candy's Creek Church list "Nancy Fields," age 90, as a member in 1828 and missionary William Holland wrote in 1825 "another member was Nancy Fields, an aged widow, full blood and mother of T. Foreman (and Catherine Foreman)." ^[3] If Holland was correct, then Susie married someone named Fields and was also called "Nancy." ^[4] Anthony Foreman had either died or left the Cherokee Nation before the 1835 Cherokee census.

Research Notes

Sons John, Thomas, Richard, and daughter Catherine were all still living at Candy's Creek in 1835. ^[5]

Thomas Foreman was in his early forties in 1825 and had three younger siblings; it's unlikely that their mother was in her forties when they were born.

Sources

1. ↑ Hampton, David K. and Baker, Jack D., eds. Old Cherokee Families Notes of Dr. Emmet Starr. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1987. Vols. 1 and 2, notes A860, H769.
2. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 363. Digitized edition at https://archive.org/details/historyofcheroke00lcstar/page/n5
3. ↑ Cherokee Family Researcher, Mesa, AZ, Fall, 1992 and Spring, 1993. Records of the Candy's Creek Church, transcribed by Jerry Clark. digitized at church
4. ↑ Starr, History, p. 363
5. ↑ 1835 Cherokee Census, transcription published by the Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill, OK. 2002. Original records: National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm publication T496, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi with Index.