Elizabeth
Red Fern
Blackhawk
Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of Thunder Black Hawk
and Abee Red Fern
Sister of
Nancy Redfern
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 50
[location unknown]
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Disputed Existence
A previous version of this profile claimed that this woman was the daughter of Sparrow Hawk/Black Hawk and Asshewaqua/Singing Bird. This couple lived in what is now Illinois and had no connection to, or a daughter, in North Carolina. She has been detached.
There is a family tradition that Johann Wendell Mueller or Miller had a common-law marriage with Red Fawn/Fern (she also is listed with the names Na Me Qua, Tikodiddie, Hawk, and Blackhawk), supposed daughter of a chief by the name of Thunder Black Hawk and his wife Abee Red Fern. The tradition goes on to claim that Red Fawn and Mueller had children together and that she is the wife who died of smallpox along with an infant grandson and was buried with him.
The story seems to arise from Michael Miller's (grandson of Johann Wendell Mueller/Wendell Miller) statement included with the Revolutionary War pension application for his father, Frederick Miller, the son of Wendell Miller. Frederick stated in his application that he was born about 1756. Michael deposed:
"I know of no private record anywhere of the marriage of my parents. ... They were married as I have always heard and believed in Rowan County, North Carolina in 1778 or 1779 and that my father the above named Frederick Miller served in the Revolutionary war after they were married and that on his return home either final or on furlough I do not remember Which he brought the smallpox and gave it to their oldest child named John and that his mother came to see them and died with the same disease and that she and the child were buried together." [1]
- A message board post on Ancestry.com says "Red Fern (Na Me Qua) Blackhawk was one of my great grandmothers. I do not believe she and Mr. Johann Wendell Miller were ever married. I, also, am not sure of her birth and death dates since her father Chief Blackhawk was born in 1767 and died in 1838, however she left or was asked to leave Mr. Miller, she went to see her son Fredrick in Virginia. She died of small pox as did Frederick's infant son. They were buried in Miller Cemetery North Carolina, she holding her grandson. She does not have a marker its just marked old grave. It was told Mr. Miller favored his white kids. I would love to obtain a huge marker for her, bigger than Mr. Miller but I am not wealthy enough. Her brother Wrilling Thunder was born in 1780 so I'm thinking she was born about that time too. By the way Blackhawk was a SAC (whatever that was) Indian not Cherokee. His tribe actually fought Cherokees. I have lots of information on him. He and his wife Singing Bird had 5 kids, 2 died young."[2]
An earlier researcher also claimed to have found evidence that she married or was a common law wife secondly to Jacob Austin Davis, by whom she had four children: Winnie, Jacob, Henry and Elizabeth.[citation needed]
However, there is no evidence this woman or her parents ever existed. There are no records in Pennsylvania which show that Wendell Mueller married before he moved to North Carolina. He certainly did not have an Indian wife when he lived in Lancaster, PA. Wendell wrote a very clear will naming his wife and all his children (and some of their spouses) in 1804. Transcript at will
Sources
- ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Roll:1724. Revolutionary War pension #W8460, Frederick Miller; digitized on Fold3: Michael
- ↑ Carol511141; posted to Ancestry.com 20 May 2015.
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Categories: Uncertain Existence | Native American Adjunct
FROM familysearch.com TREE "When Elizabeth Greer Naktika Redfern was born in 1723, in Gunpowder, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Chief Thunder Black Hawk, was 23 and her mother, Abbee Redfern, was 13. She married Jacob Davis on 6 February 1745, in Saint Johns Parish, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1781, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. TREE no source] There is an Elizabeth Greer who married Jacob Davice-6 in St. John's Parish (copy attached to his profile), AND they have children, 1 daughter, Mary Davis BEFORE I LINKED her thought I would let you decide........ thank you
edited by Carole Taylor
edited by Cheri Gates
Here is a link to Michael Miller's statement (part of his father's Revolutionary War pension application) on Fold3: https://www.fold3.com/image/25107115
It says: "I know of no private record anywhere of the marriage of my parents. ... They were married as I have always heard and believed in Rowan County, North Carolina in 1778 or 1779 and that my father the above named Frederick Miller served in the Revolutionary war after they were married and that on his return home either final or on furlough I do not remember Which he brought the smallpox and gave it to their oldest child named John and that his mother came to see them and died with the same disease and that she and the child were buried together." Frederick Miller's mother, Christina, was alive and well in 1804 when his father died, so she cannot be the "mother" buried with Frederick's son.
edited by Kathie (Parks) Forbes