Lucy Ann (Ward) Luckey (abt. 1829 - abt. 1895)

Born about 8 Jul 1829 in Cherokee Nation (East)

Ancestors

Wife of Matthew Thompson — married 1851 (to 1853) in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States

Wife of Napoleon Bonaparte Luckey — married 6 Jul 1867 in Benton, Arkansas, United States

Died about 1895 at about age 65 in Saline District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States

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Biography

Lucy was Cherokee.

Lucy Ann Ward was born July 8, 1829 in the Cherokee Nation (East), the daughter of George Ward a Cherokee, and Lucy Mayes, a white woman. ^[1] The family removed to Indian Territory as "Old Settlers" in 1832 and settled in the Skin Bayou District. ^[2] Lucy attended the New Springplace Mission School in 1841 with Matthew Thompson, to whom she was briefly married. Matthew Thompson was also Cherokee; they were married about 1849, ^[3] but by 1851 she appears on the 1851 Drennan Roll living next to her father and siblings. ^[4] She appears on the 1851 Drennan Roll with several other members of her family as "disputed;" they should have been on the Old Settler Roll. ^[5] She married George Coulcher (Coultier) about 1851 and Robert Howell about 1857. ^[6] Robert was killed during the Civil War. ^[7] Her last husband was Napoleon Bonaparte Luckey. They were married on 6 Jul 1867 in Benton County, Arkansas. ^[8] They remarried under Cherokee law on January 1, 1868. ^[9] Lucy and Napoleon are listed in the Delaware District on the 1880 Cherokee Census. ^[10]in 1890 they lived in the Saline District. ^[11] Lucy has no recorded children. Her death date is uncertain, but Napoleon remarried in 1895. ^[12]

• Luckey, Lucy Ann, correspondence to: 7117 Lucky, N. B., correspondence from: 5409 ^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. Miscellaneous Notes, Oklahoma Historical Society, microfilm publication AMD29, Book III, p. 72. cited in Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed-Bloods. Arc Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, Arkansas. 2005. p. 481.
2. ↑ Baker, Jack D. transcriber. Cherokee Emigration Rolls 1817-1835. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1977. Original Records: National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1793-1999. p. 27
3. ↑ see testimony of J.A. Thompson attached to Dawes application #232, Napoleon Luckey. Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898–1914. Microfilm M1301, 468 rolls. NAI: 617283. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Washington, D.C.
4. ↑ Drennen Roll of “Emigrant Cherokee,” 1851. Series 7RA-01. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. Skin Bayou District, p. 384, #16. Digitized at Ancestry.
5. ↑ The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-01; NARA Series Title: Drennen Roll, 1852; Roll: 1
6. ↑ Gideon, D.C. Indian territory, descriptive, biographical and genealogical, including the landed estates, county seats, etc., etc., with a general history of the territory. Lewis Publishing Co., New York, 1901. pp. 868-869.
7. ↑ Gideon, D.C. Indian territory, descriptive, biographical and genealogical. Lewis Publishing Co. New York, 1901. p. 868. Digitized at Google Books.
8. ↑ "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N97L-DQV : 9 March 2021), N B Luckey, 6 Jul 1867; citing Marriage, Benton, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 1,034,660.
9. ↑ Chronicles of Oklahoma vol. 6 no. 3, Sept 1928 "Intermarried Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887" by A. H. Murchison, Okmulgee, Oklahoma pp 299-327 (page 313)
10. ↑ The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-07; NARA Series Title: Cherokee Census, 1880. Delaware District, p. 278, digitized at Ancestry.com
11. ↑ The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-08; NARA Series Title: Cherokee Census, 1890; Roll: 3 Saline #871
12. ↑ Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898–1914. Microfilm M1301, 468 rolls. NAI: 617283. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Washington, D.C., Napoleon Luckey, Application #232, Intermarried White.
13. ↑ Cherokee Nation Papers, Inventory and Index Roll no. 42, folder 5409

• family records, 4 marriages of record #1) George Coloher, #2) Mathew Thompson, #3) Robert Howell #4) Napoleon Luckey
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