Nancy (Cherokee) Drumgoole (aft. 1750)

Born after 1750 in Cherokee Nation (East)

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Cherokee Nation

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Biography

Nancy was Cherokee.

Full Sequence mtDNA Haplogroup C1c Earliest Known Ancestor

"Nancy," a full-blood Cherokee, probably born in the 1750's, was the wife of trader Alexander Drumgoole. They were the parents of Nannie Drumgoole, the wife of Doublehead, John Foreman (son of Anthony), and John Springston, and Ruth Drumgoole, wife of John Foreman and George Wilson. ^[1]

Research Notes

N.B.: She was not a wife of Anthony Foreman and was not the woman called "Nancy Fields" or "Nancy Augusta" in the Candy's Creek Church records.

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)." ^[2] 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. The mother of Thomas and Catherine Foreman was named "Susie" according to Emmet Starr (possibly daughter of Teskarteeskee); it's possible that she married someone named Fields and was also called "Nancy." ^[3] She would have been in her seventies in the 1820's.

Martha (Copeland) Cohee (1836-1902) is the declared E.K.A. of one mtDNA tester at FTDNA reporting Hg=C1c, whose actual earliest known ancestor is now Nancy (Cherokee) Drumgoole.

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. Digitized edition at Starr pp. 630, 363, 461
2. ↑ Cherokee Family Researcher, Mesa, AZ, Fall, 1992 and Spring, 1993. Records of the Candy's Creek Church, transcribed by Jerry Clark. digitized at church
3. ↑ Starr, History, p. 363