Nathaniel was the son of Christopher Gist.∼Nathaniel Gist, A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of COLONEL. (1733–1796). Continental officer. Virginia. Often mistaken for his uncle Nathaniel, this Gist (pronounced "guest") was the son of the famous colonial scout Christopher Gist and first cousin of General Mordecai Gist. He took command of one of the sixteen Additional Continental Regiments on 11 January 1777. The younger Nathaniel Gist lived among the Cherokee as an Indian trader from the mid-1750s until 1775 and was a hunting companion of Daniel Boone. Many scholars maintain that he was the father of Sequoyah (born 1760 or 1761). Gist, who served as a captain of Virginia militia during the Seven Years' War, attempted to persuade the Cherokee to remain neutral during the Revolution, as he also had doubts as to which side to take. By 1776 he had definitely taken the Patriot side and was made a colonel in the Continental Army on 11 January 1777. Washington immediately pressed him into service to negotiate a peace with the Cherokee. By the end of the year, Gist was attempting to persuade Washington to make better use of the Patriots' Indian allies, without much success. Commanding Red Stone Fort in Pennsylvania in 1779, he was sent to reinforce Charleston, becoming a prisoner of war on 12 May 1780. He retired 1 January 1783. In 1793 he moved to his grant of seven thousand acres in Kentucky (awarded by Congress for his services during the Revolution) and died there on his Canewood plantation in 1796. His widow, Judith Cary Bell Gist, married General Charles Scott, who served as governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1819.
b. October 15, 1733, Baltimore County, Maryland
d. 1796, Canewood, Clark County, Kentucky
parents: Christopher Gist & Sarah Howard
"served as colonel, Virginia Continental Line, 1777; was taken prisoner at Charleston, and retire, 1781" - DAR lineage book, vol. 154, page 151.
Family
Marriage 1 Wut-teh (Wurteh) Paint Clan (Bird Clan) b: ABT 1744
Children
George "Sequoyah" Gist (Guess) b: ABT 1775 in Tuskegee,, Cherokee Nation
Marriage 2 Judith Cary Bell b: 1750 in , Virginia Married: ABT 1783 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia Children
Sarah Howard Gist b: ABT 1784/1785 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Henry Cary Gist b: ABT 1786 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Judith Bell Gist b: ABT 1788 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Thomas Nathaniel Gist b: ABT 1790 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Anna Maria Gist b: ABT 1791 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Davidella C. (Dandella) Gist b: ABT 1793 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Elizabeth Violet H."Eliza" Gist b: 1793/1795
Maria Cecil Gist b: 18 Jul 1797 in Canewood, Bourbon Co., Kentucky
notes
Info added per DARs "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating he was "a colonel and grigadier of the Virginia Line"
Sequoyah's father was either white or mixed-race white and Cherokee. Sources differ as to the exact identity of Sequoyah's father, but many (including Mooney) suggested that he was possibly a fur trader, who would have been a man of some social status and financial backing. Based on available documentation, for decades historians believed that Sequoyah's father was Nathaniel Gist, a commissioned officer with the Continental Army associated with George Washington.
Allegiance - United States, Service/branch - Infantry, Years of service - 1755–1760 and 1777–1783. Rank - Colonel. Battles/wars fought in - Braddock's Expedition (1755), Forbes Expedition (1758), Cherokee War (1760), Battle of Paulus Hook (1779), and Siege of Charleston (1780).
Brief Biography
Nathaniel Gist (15 October 1733 – 1812) was born in Maryland and fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was reputed to be the father of Sequoyah the famous Cherokee by Wut-teh. Like his father Christopher Gist (1706–1759), Nathaniel became a frontiersman and he once briefly traveled with Daniel Boone. He served in Braddock's Expedition in 1755 and the Forbes Expedition in 1758. The outbreak of the American Revolution found him on the frontier. At first suspected of sympathizing with the British, he convinced the Americans of his loyalty.
George Washington, a close friend of his father, authorized him to form Gist's Additional Continental Regiment in January 1777. Gist probably participated in Light Horse Harry Lee's Paulus Hook Raid in 1779. He and his regiment were captured at the Siege of Charleston in May 1780. After the war, he took an American wife Judith Cary Bell (1750–1833) and the couple had four daughters, one of whom married Francis P. Blair. He is variously said to have died in 1796, 1812, or at the end of the War of 1812. He is confused with his uncle Nathaniel Gist (1707–1780). He was a first cousin of Mordecai Gist.
Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 36 'Daughters of the American Revolution - 1912 http://books.google.com/books?id=mmUZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA147&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2JDMpQ-izsNKrT7m-b3lT2sTOEMA&ci=81%2C628%2C768%2C380&edge=0
Nathaniel was the son of Captain Christopher Gist[, himself famous as an explorer of the West in 1750 and as guide to the young George Washington in the Ohio River Region. His personal journals are considered the bedrock of history of the West for the earliest emigrant times.
Nathaniel had a brilliant career in the southeast Indian Nation; trading in 1750's, later as Lieutenant to Major George Washington in 1755. Due to his intimate negotiations with the Stuarts, agents, and Old Hop, and other chiefs, he was suspected of being a double agent in the Revolutionary War Years, 1770's and came close to hanging; but Gist was diplomatically reunited with Geo. Washington who elevated him to Colonel of a Continental regiment. He retired in January, 1781.
MOST NOTABLE:
Sequoyah George Gist Guess (b. 1770, d. 1843)
Son of Col. Nathaniel Gist and Wur-Teh Watts
Husband of Chini Guess; Sarah Gist; Elli Guess; Utiyu Gist; Tsi-Yo-Sa Guess and 4 others
Father of Agiligina Kenoteta Self; Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; George Guess, II; Ti-Si (Tessey) Guess / Gist; Mary "Polly" Brewer and 17 others.
Tessey "Ti-Si" Gist Guess
BIRTH 1789
Texas, USA
DEATH 17 Sep 1867 (aged 77–78)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160490880
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Father of George Guess / Gist, III; Sallie Tar-nui-nee Guess / Gist; Joseph Choo-wa-loo-ker Guess / Gist and Katherine (Katie) Downing
Brother of George Guess, II; Richard Guess; Polly Brewer and Ahyokah Guess
Half brother of Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; agiligina kenoteta "rising fawn" Self; Richard Guess; U-Lu-Tsa Guess; Patsy Guess and 12 others.
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
George Guess, III
BIRTH 1838
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1861 (aged 22–23)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160489745,
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Mary Polly Guess Dirteater
BIRTH 18 Mar 1854
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1906 (aged 51–52)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160487834
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Annie Belle Dirteater Dick
BIRTH 10 Mar 1888
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 24 Feb 1972 (aged 83)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 1
MEMORIAL ID 39683213
Parents Charley Dirteater & Mary Guess.
Her mother died when she was young, she went to live with Watie Guess.
(additional info provided by user tashataffy)
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Sequoyah is Annie Belle Dirteater Dick's great, great grandfather.
Daughter of Charlie Dirteater and Mary "Polly" Guess / Gist
Wife of George Dick
Mother of Betsy Walker; George Dick; Sallie Anne Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee Groundhog and Peggy Hair
Sister of Willie (Gist) Guess Dirteater; Jim Wolfe Dirteater; Henry Dirteater; Dick Dirteater; Stan Dirteater and 2 others.
Annie Belle Dick was one of the last descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) until her children. One of her Children to leave a direct living descendant is Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog.
Sallie was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was later to be one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived now only by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Annie Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog
BIRTH 7 Dec 1912
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 17 May 1980 (aged 67)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma,
MEMORIAL ID 150969314
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee is the Cherokee Name of Sally Ann (Dick) Groundhog
Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger
BIRTH 23 Oct 1946
DEATH 26 Jan 1975 (aged 28)
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 49
MEMORIAL ID 39694654
Mary Ann Eslinger born "Sosti" Groundhog on Wednesday October 23, 1946 to George Washington Groundhog and Sallie Ann (Dick) Groundhog of Tahlequah, Indian Territory U.S.A. she passed on Sunday January 26, 1975 and was laid to rest on Thursday January 30, 1975 at Cedar Tree Baptist Church.
Mary authored two books GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Of The Blue People Clan for her daughters 1974 Christmas present, there are only ten copies of this book made. One belongs to Lisa Christine; two are registered at the Copy-Right Office; National Archives in Washington, D.C.; and one at the Oklahoma Historical Society; and one to the Cherokee Tribal Attorney, Earl Boyd Pierce. Mary also authored Cherokee People exposing the U.S. Government for their illicit exploitation and human trafficking of Native American girls.
Mary Ann Eslinger is survived by daughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Groundhog aka Lisa Christine Christiansen.
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include some genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements."
b. October 15, 1733, Baltimore County, Maryland
d. 1796, Canewood, Clark County, Kentucky
parents: Christopher Gist & Sarah Howard
"served as colonel, Virginia Continental Line, 1777; was taken prisoner at Charleston, and retire, 1781" - DAR lineage book, vol. 154, page 151.
Family
Marriage 1 Wut-teh (Wurteh) Paint Clan (Bird Clan) b: ABT 1744
Children
George "Sequoyah" Gist (Guess) b: ABT 1775 in Tuskegee,, Cherokee Nation
Marriage 2 Judith Cary Bell b: 1750 in , Virginia Married: ABT 1783 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia Children
Sarah Howard Gist b: ABT 1784/1785 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Henry Cary Gist b: ABT 1786 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Judith Bell Gist b: ABT 1788 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Thomas Nathaniel Gist b: ABT 1790 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Anna Maria Gist b: ABT 1791 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Davidella C. (Dandella) Gist b: ABT 1793 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Elizabeth Violet H."Eliza" Gist b: 1793/1795
Maria Cecil Gist b: 18 Jul 1797 in Canewood, Bourbon Co., Kentucky
notes
Info added per DARs "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating he was "a colonel and grigadier of the Virginia Line"
Sequoyah's father was either white or mixed-race white and Cherokee. Sources differ as to the exact identity of Sequoyah's father, but many (including Mooney) suggested that he was possibly a fur trader, who would have been a man of some social status and financial backing. Based on available documentation, for decades historians believed that Sequoyah's father was Nathaniel Gist, a commissioned officer with the Continental Army associated with George Washington.
Allegiance - United States, Service/branch - Infantry, Years of service - 1755–1760 and 1777–1783. Rank - Colonel. Battles/wars fought in - Braddock's Expedition (1755), Forbes Expedition (1758), Cherokee War (1760), Battle of Paulus Hook (1779), and Siege of Charleston (1780).
Brief Biography
Nathaniel Gist (15 October 1733 – 1812) was born in Maryland and fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was reputed to be the father of Sequoyah the famous Cherokee by Wut-teh. Like his father Christopher Gist (1706–1759), Nathaniel became a frontiersman and he once briefly traveled with Daniel Boone. He served in Braddock's Expedition in 1755 and the Forbes Expedition in 1758. The outbreak of the American Revolution found him on the frontier. At first suspected of sympathizing with the British, he convinced the Americans of his loyalty.
George Washington, a close friend of his father, authorized him to form Gist's Additional Continental Regiment in January 1777. Gist probably participated in Light Horse Harry Lee's Paulus Hook Raid in 1779. He and his regiment were captured at the Siege of Charleston in May 1780. After the war, he took an American wife Judith Cary Bell (1750–1833) and the couple had four daughters, one of whom married Francis P. Blair. He is variously said to have died in 1796, 1812, or at the end of the War of 1812. He is confused with his uncle Nathaniel Gist (1707–1780). He was a first cousin of Mordecai Gist.
Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 36 'Daughters of the American Revolution - 1912 http://books.google.com/books?id=mmUZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA147&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2JDMpQ-izsNKrT7m-b3lT2sTOEMA&ci=81%2C628%2C768%2C380&edge=0
Nathaniel was the son of Captain Christopher Gist[, himself famous as an explorer of the West in 1750 and as guide to the young George Washington in the Ohio River Region. His personal journals are considered the bedrock of history of the West for the earliest emigrant times.
Nathaniel had a brilliant career in the southeast Indian Nation; trading in 1750's, later as Lieutenant to Major George Washington in 1755. Due to his intimate negotiations with the Stuarts, agents, and Old Hop, and other chiefs, he was suspected of being a double agent in the Revolutionary War Years, 1770's and came close to hanging; but Gist was diplomatically reunited with Geo. Washington who elevated him to Colonel of a Continental regiment. He retired in January, 1781.
MOST NOTABLE:
Sequoyah George Gist Guess (b. 1770, d. 1843)
Son of Col. Nathaniel Gist and Wur-Teh Watts
Husband of Chini Guess; Sarah Gist; Elli Guess; Utiyu Gist; Tsi-Yo-Sa Guess and 4 others
Father of Agiligina Kenoteta Self; Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; George Guess, II; Ti-Si (Tessey) Guess / Gist; Mary "Polly" Brewer and 17 others.
Tessey "Ti-Si" Gist Guess
BIRTH 1789
Texas, USA
DEATH 17 Sep 1867 (aged 77–78)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160490880
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Father of George Guess / Gist, III; Sallie Tar-nui-nee Guess / Gist; Joseph Choo-wa-loo-ker Guess / Gist and Katherine (Katie) Downing
Brother of George Guess, II; Richard Guess; Polly Brewer and Ahyokah Guess
Half brother of Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; agiligina kenoteta "rising fawn" Self; Richard Guess; U-Lu-Tsa Guess; Patsy Guess and 12 others.
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
George Guess, III
BIRTH 1838
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1861 (aged 22–23)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160489745,
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Mary Polly Guess Dirteater
BIRTH 18 Mar 1854
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1906 (aged 51–52)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160487834
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Annie Belle Dirteater Dick
BIRTH 10 Mar 1888
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 24 Feb 1972 (aged 83)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 1
MEMORIAL ID 39683213
Parents Charley Dirteater & Mary Guess.
Her mother died when she was young, she went to live with Watie Guess.
(additional info provided by user tashataffy)
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Sequoyah is Annie Belle Dirteater Dick's great, great grandfather.
Daughter of Charlie Dirteater and Mary "Polly" Guess / Gist
Wife of George Dick
Mother of Betsy Walker; George Dick; Sallie Anne Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee Groundhog and Peggy Hair
Sister of Willie (Gist) Guess Dirteater; Jim Wolfe Dirteater; Henry Dirteater; Dick Dirteater; Stan Dirteater and 2 others.
Annie Belle Dick was one of the last descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) until her children. One of her Children to leave a direct living descendant is Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog.
Sallie was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was later to be one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived now only by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Annie Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog
BIRTH 7 Dec 1912
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 17 May 1980 (aged 67)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma,
MEMORIAL ID 150969314
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee is the Cherokee Name of Sally Ann (Dick) Groundhog
Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger
BIRTH 23 Oct 1946
DEATH 26 Jan 1975 (aged 28)
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 49
MEMORIAL ID 39694654
Mary Ann Eslinger born "Sosti" Groundhog on Wednesday October 23, 1946 to George Washington Groundhog and Sallie Ann (Dick) Groundhog of Tahlequah, Indian Territory U.S.A. she passed on Sunday January 26, 1975 and was laid to rest on Thursday January 30, 1975 at Cedar Tree Baptist Church.
Mary authored two books GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Of The Blue People Clan for her daughters 1974 Christmas present, there are only ten copies of this book made. One belongs to Lisa Christine; two are registered at the Copy-Right Office; National Archives in Washington, D.C.; and one at the Oklahoma Historical Society; and one to the Cherokee Tribal Attorney, Earl Boyd Pierce. Mary also authored Cherokee People exposing the U.S. Government for their illicit exploitation and human trafficking of Native American girls.
Mary Ann Eslinger is survived by daughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Groundhog aka Lisa Christine Christiansen.
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include some genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements."
Nathaniel was the son of Christopher Gist.∼Nathaniel Gist, A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of COLONEL. (1733–1796). Continental officer. Virginia. Often mistaken for his uncle Nathaniel, this Gist (pronounced "guest") was the son of the famous colonial scout Christopher Gist and first cousin of General Mordecai Gist. He took command of one of the sixteen Additional Continental Regiments on 11 January 1777. The younger Nathaniel Gist lived among the Cherokee as an Indian trader from the mid-1750s until 1775 and was a hunting companion of Daniel Boone. Many scholars maintain that he was the father of Sequoyah (born 1760 or 1761). Gist, who served as a captain of Virginia militia during the Seven Years' War, attempted to persuade the Cherokee to remain neutral during the Revolution, as he also had doubts as to which side to take. By 1776 he had definitely taken the Patriot side and was made a colonel in the Continental Army on 11 January 1777. Washington immediately pressed him into service to negotiate a peace with the Cherokee. By the end of the year, Gist was attempting to persuade Washington to make better use of the Patriots' Indian allies, without much success. Commanding Red Stone Fort in Pennsylvania in 1779, he was sent to reinforce Charleston, becoming a prisoner of war on 12 May 1780. He retired 1 January 1783. In 1793 he moved to his grant of seven thousand acres in Kentucky (awarded by Congress for his services during the Revolution) and died there on his Canewood plantation in 1796. His widow, Judith Cary Bell Gist, married General Charles Scott, who served as governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1819.
b. October 15, 1733, Baltimore County, Maryland
d. 1796, Canewood, Clark County, Kentucky
parents: Christopher Gist & Sarah Howard
"served as colonel, Virginia Continental Line, 1777; was taken prisoner at Charleston, and retire, 1781" - DAR lineage book, vol. 154, page 151.
Family
Marriage 1 Wut-teh (Wurteh) Paint Clan (Bird Clan) b: ABT 1744
Children
George "Sequoyah" Gist (Guess) b: ABT 1775 in Tuskegee,, Cherokee Nation
Marriage 2 Judith Cary Bell b: 1750 in , Virginia Married: ABT 1783 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia Children
Sarah Howard Gist b: ABT 1784/1785 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Henry Cary Gist b: ABT 1786 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Judith Bell Gist b: ABT 1788 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Thomas Nathaniel Gist b: ABT 1790 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Anna Maria Gist b: ABT 1791 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Davidella C. (Dandella) Gist b: ABT 1793 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Elizabeth Violet H."Eliza" Gist b: 1793/1795
Maria Cecil Gist b: 18 Jul 1797 in Canewood, Bourbon Co., Kentucky
notes
Info added per DARs "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating he was "a colonel and grigadier of the Virginia Line"
Sequoyah's father was either white or mixed-race white and Cherokee. Sources differ as to the exact identity of Sequoyah's father, but many (including Mooney) suggested that he was possibly a fur trader, who would have been a man of some social status and financial backing. Based on available documentation, for decades historians believed that Sequoyah's father was Nathaniel Gist, a commissioned officer with the Continental Army associated with George Washington.
Allegiance - United States, Service/branch - Infantry, Years of service - 1755–1760 and 1777–1783. Rank - Colonel. Battles/wars fought in - Braddock's Expedition (1755), Forbes Expedition (1758), Cherokee War (1760), Battle of Paulus Hook (1779), and Siege of Charleston (1780).
Brief Biography
Nathaniel Gist (15 October 1733 – 1812) was born in Maryland and fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was reputed to be the father of Sequoyah the famous Cherokee by Wut-teh. Like his father Christopher Gist (1706–1759), Nathaniel became a frontiersman and he once briefly traveled with Daniel Boone. He served in Braddock's Expedition in 1755 and the Forbes Expedition in 1758. The outbreak of the American Revolution found him on the frontier. At first suspected of sympathizing with the British, he convinced the Americans of his loyalty.
George Washington, a close friend of his father, authorized him to form Gist's Additional Continental Regiment in January 1777. Gist probably participated in Light Horse Harry Lee's Paulus Hook Raid in 1779. He and his regiment were captured at the Siege of Charleston in May 1780. After the war, he took an American wife Judith Cary Bell (1750–1833) and the couple had four daughters, one of whom married Francis P. Blair. He is variously said to have died in 1796, 1812, or at the end of the War of 1812. He is confused with his uncle Nathaniel Gist (1707–1780). He was a first cousin of Mordecai Gist.
Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 36 'Daughters of the American Revolution - 1912 http://books.google.com/books?id=mmUZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA147&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2JDMpQ-izsNKrT7m-b3lT2sTOEMA&ci=81%2C628%2C768%2C380&edge=0
Nathaniel was the son of Captain Christopher Gist[, himself famous as an explorer of the West in 1750 and as guide to the young George Washington in the Ohio River Region. His personal journals are considered the bedrock of history of the West for the earliest emigrant times.
Nathaniel had a brilliant career in the southeast Indian Nation; trading in 1750's, later as Lieutenant to Major George Washington in 1755. Due to his intimate negotiations with the Stuarts, agents, and Old Hop, and other chiefs, he was suspected of being a double agent in the Revolutionary War Years, 1770's and came close to hanging; but Gist was diplomatically reunited with Geo. Washington who elevated him to Colonel of a Continental regiment. He retired in January, 1781.
MOST NOTABLE:
Sequoyah George Gist Guess (b. 1770, d. 1843)
Son of Col. Nathaniel Gist and Wur-Teh Watts
Husband of Chini Guess; Sarah Gist; Elli Guess; Utiyu Gist; Tsi-Yo-Sa Guess and 4 others
Father of Agiligina Kenoteta Self; Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; George Guess, II; Ti-Si (Tessey) Guess / Gist; Mary "Polly" Brewer and 17 others.
Tessey "Ti-Si" Gist Guess
BIRTH 1789
Texas, USA
DEATH 17 Sep 1867 (aged 77–78)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160490880
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Father of George Guess / Gist, III; Sallie Tar-nui-nee Guess / Gist; Joseph Choo-wa-loo-ker Guess / Gist and Katherine (Katie) Downing
Brother of George Guess, II; Richard Guess; Polly Brewer and Ahyokah Guess
Half brother of Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; agiligina kenoteta "rising fawn" Self; Richard Guess; U-Lu-Tsa Guess; Patsy Guess and 12 others.
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
George Guess, III
BIRTH 1838
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1861 (aged 22–23)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160489745,
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Mary Polly Guess Dirteater
BIRTH 18 Mar 1854
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1906 (aged 51–52)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160487834
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Annie Belle Dirteater Dick
BIRTH 10 Mar 1888
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 24 Feb 1972 (aged 83)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 1
MEMORIAL ID 39683213
Parents Charley Dirteater & Mary Guess.
Her mother died when she was young, she went to live with Watie Guess.
(additional info provided by user tashataffy)
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Sequoyah is Annie Belle Dirteater Dick's great, great grandfather.
Daughter of Charlie Dirteater and Mary "Polly" Guess / Gist
Wife of George Dick
Mother of Betsy Walker; George Dick; Sallie Anne Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee Groundhog and Peggy Hair
Sister of Willie (Gist) Guess Dirteater; Jim Wolfe Dirteater; Henry Dirteater; Dick Dirteater; Stan Dirteater and 2 others.
Annie Belle Dick was one of the last descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) until her children. One of her Children to leave a direct living descendant is Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog.
Sallie was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was later to be one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived now only by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Annie Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog
BIRTH 7 Dec 1912
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 17 May 1980 (aged 67)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma,
MEMORIAL ID 150969314
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee is the Cherokee Name of Sally Ann (Dick) Groundhog
Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger
BIRTH 23 Oct 1946
DEATH 26 Jan 1975 (aged 28)
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 49
MEMORIAL ID 39694654
Mary Ann Eslinger born "Sosti" Groundhog on Wednesday October 23, 1946 to George Washington Groundhog and Sallie Ann (Dick) Groundhog of Tahlequah, Indian Territory U.S.A. she passed on Sunday January 26, 1975 and was laid to rest on Thursday January 30, 1975 at Cedar Tree Baptist Church.
Mary authored two books GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Of The Blue People Clan for her daughters 1974 Christmas present, there are only ten copies of this book made. One belongs to Lisa Christine; two are registered at the Copy-Right Office; National Archives in Washington, D.C.; and one at the Oklahoma Historical Society; and one to the Cherokee Tribal Attorney, Earl Boyd Pierce. Mary also authored Cherokee People exposing the U.S. Government for their illicit exploitation and human trafficking of Native American girls.
Mary Ann Eslinger is survived by daughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Groundhog aka Lisa Christine Christiansen.
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include some genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements."
b. October 15, 1733, Baltimore County, Maryland
d. 1796, Canewood, Clark County, Kentucky
parents: Christopher Gist & Sarah Howard
"served as colonel, Virginia Continental Line, 1777; was taken prisoner at Charleston, and retire, 1781" - DAR lineage book, vol. 154, page 151.
Family
Marriage 1 Wut-teh (Wurteh) Paint Clan (Bird Clan) b: ABT 1744
Children
George "Sequoyah" Gist (Guess) b: ABT 1775 in Tuskegee,, Cherokee Nation
Marriage 2 Judith Cary Bell b: 1750 in , Virginia Married: ABT 1783 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia Children
Sarah Howard Gist b: ABT 1784/1785 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Henry Cary Gist b: ABT 1786 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Judith Bell Gist b: ABT 1788 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Thomas Nathaniel Gist b: ABT 1790 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Anna Maria Gist b: ABT 1791 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Davidella C. (Dandella) Gist b: ABT 1793 in , Buckingham Co., Virginia
Elizabeth Violet H."Eliza" Gist b: 1793/1795
Maria Cecil Gist b: 18 Jul 1797 in Canewood, Bourbon Co., Kentucky
notes
Info added per DARs "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 stating he was "a colonel and grigadier of the Virginia Line"
Sequoyah's father was either white or mixed-race white and Cherokee. Sources differ as to the exact identity of Sequoyah's father, but many (including Mooney) suggested that he was possibly a fur trader, who would have been a man of some social status and financial backing. Based on available documentation, for decades historians believed that Sequoyah's father was Nathaniel Gist, a commissioned officer with the Continental Army associated with George Washington.
Allegiance - United States, Service/branch - Infantry, Years of service - 1755–1760 and 1777–1783. Rank - Colonel. Battles/wars fought in - Braddock's Expedition (1755), Forbes Expedition (1758), Cherokee War (1760), Battle of Paulus Hook (1779), and Siege of Charleston (1780).
Brief Biography
Nathaniel Gist (15 October 1733 – 1812) was born in Maryland and fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was reputed to be the father of Sequoyah the famous Cherokee by Wut-teh. Like his father Christopher Gist (1706–1759), Nathaniel became a frontiersman and he once briefly traveled with Daniel Boone. He served in Braddock's Expedition in 1755 and the Forbes Expedition in 1758. The outbreak of the American Revolution found him on the frontier. At first suspected of sympathizing with the British, he convinced the Americans of his loyalty.
George Washington, a close friend of his father, authorized him to form Gist's Additional Continental Regiment in January 1777. Gist probably participated in Light Horse Harry Lee's Paulus Hook Raid in 1779. He and his regiment were captured at the Siege of Charleston in May 1780. After the war, he took an American wife Judith Cary Bell (1750–1833) and the couple had four daughters, one of whom married Francis P. Blair. He is variously said to have died in 1796, 1812, or at the end of the War of 1812. He is confused with his uncle Nathaniel Gist (1707–1780). He was a first cousin of Mordecai Gist.
Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 36 'Daughters of the American Revolution - 1912 http://books.google.com/books?id=mmUZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA147&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2JDMpQ-izsNKrT7m-b3lT2sTOEMA&ci=81%2C628%2C768%2C380&edge=0
Nathaniel was the son of Captain Christopher Gist[, himself famous as an explorer of the West in 1750 and as guide to the young George Washington in the Ohio River Region. His personal journals are considered the bedrock of history of the West for the earliest emigrant times.
Nathaniel had a brilliant career in the southeast Indian Nation; trading in 1750's, later as Lieutenant to Major George Washington in 1755. Due to his intimate negotiations with the Stuarts, agents, and Old Hop, and other chiefs, he was suspected of being a double agent in the Revolutionary War Years, 1770's and came close to hanging; but Gist was diplomatically reunited with Geo. Washington who elevated him to Colonel of a Continental regiment. He retired in January, 1781.
MOST NOTABLE:
Sequoyah George Gist Guess (b. 1770, d. 1843)
Son of Col. Nathaniel Gist and Wur-Teh Watts
Husband of Chini Guess; Sarah Gist; Elli Guess; Utiyu Gist; Tsi-Yo-Sa Guess and 4 others
Father of Agiligina Kenoteta Self; Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; George Guess, II; Ti-Si (Tessey) Guess / Gist; Mary "Polly" Brewer and 17 others.
Tessey "Ti-Si" Gist Guess
BIRTH 1789
Texas, USA
DEATH 17 Sep 1867 (aged 77–78)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160490880
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Father of George Guess / Gist, III; Sallie Tar-nui-nee Guess / Gist; Joseph Choo-wa-loo-ker Guess / Gist and Katherine (Katie) Downing
Brother of George Guess, II; Richard Guess; Polly Brewer and Ahyokah Guess
Half brother of Rachel E- ya-gu Guess/Gist; agiligina kenoteta "rising fawn" Self; Richard Guess; U-Lu-Tsa Guess; Patsy Guess and 12 others.
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
George Guess, III
BIRTH 1838
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1861 (aged 22–23)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160489745,
1851 Drennan roll: Canadian, 101
Aka (Facts Pg): Tsu-sa-le-tah, Isse-sa-de-tah, and variants
Blood: 3/4 Cherokee
Detachment: 1837, 37d John Huss; 2m-10, 1m-25 1f-25 1f+50 Military service: Abt. 1863, SGT in Stand Watie's 1st Cherokee Regiment
Rebecca was his second wife.
Son of Sequoyah (George Gist) and Utiyu Gist
Husband of Rebecca (Du-Ga or Tooker) Guess
Mary Polly Guess Dirteater
BIRTH 18 Mar 1854
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 1906 (aged 51–52)
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 160487834
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Annie Belle Dirteater Dick
BIRTH 10 Mar 1888
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 24 Feb 1972 (aged 83)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 1
MEMORIAL ID 39683213
Parents Charley Dirteater & Mary Guess.
Her mother died when she was young, she went to live with Watie Guess.
(additional info provided by user tashataffy)
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Sequoyah is Annie Belle Dirteater Dick's great, great grandfather.
Daughter of Charlie Dirteater and Mary "Polly" Guess / Gist
Wife of George Dick
Mother of Betsy Walker; George Dick; Sallie Anne Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee Groundhog and Peggy Hair
Sister of Willie (Gist) Guess Dirteater; Jim Wolfe Dirteater; Henry Dirteater; Dick Dirteater; Stan Dirteater and 2 others.
Annie Belle Dick was one of the last descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) until her children. One of her Children to leave a direct living descendant is Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog.
Sallie was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was later to be one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived now only by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Annie Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog
BIRTH 7 Dec 1912
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 17 May 1980 (aged 67)
Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma,
MEMORIAL ID 150969314
Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was born December 7, 1912 in Briggs, Oklahoma to Annie Belle Dirteater and George Dick. Sallie Ann Dick Groundhog was laid to rest on May 17, 1980 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Sallie Ann Dick was one of the last remaining descendants of Sequoyah (George "Gist" Guess) the creator of the Cherokee Syllabary survived by her granddaughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee "Ogan" Groundhog better known as Lisa Christine Christiansen.
Sequoyah's great granddaughter Mary Guess (Gist) is Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of her daughter predeceased is Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
Aan-A-Wa-ke-Ee is the Cherokee Name of Sally Ann (Dick) Groundhog
Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger
BIRTH 23 Oct 1946
DEATH 26 Jan 1975 (aged 28)
BURIAL
Cedar Tree Cemetery
Briggs, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
PLOT 49
MEMORIAL ID 39694654
Mary Ann Eslinger born "Sosti" Groundhog on Wednesday October 23, 1946 to George Washington Groundhog and Sallie Ann (Dick) Groundhog of Tahlequah, Indian Territory U.S.A. she passed on Sunday January 26, 1975 and was laid to rest on Thursday January 30, 1975 at Cedar Tree Baptist Church.
Mary authored two books GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Of The Blue People Clan for her daughters 1974 Christmas present, there are only ten copies of this book made. One belongs to Lisa Christine; two are registered at the Copy-Right Office; National Archives in Washington, D.C.; and one at the Oklahoma Historical Society; and one to the Cherokee Tribal Attorney, Earl Boyd Pierce. Mary also authored Cherokee People exposing the U.S. Government for their illicit exploitation and human trafficking of Native American girls.
Mary Ann Eslinger is survived by daughter GI-Dee-Thlo-Ah-Ee Groundhog aka Lisa Christine Christiansen.
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements.
Mary Guess (Gist) is Sequoyah's great granddaughter and Sallie's great, great grandmother. Mary Polly "Gist" Guess married Charley Dirteater. Their children are Willie (Gist) Guess; Belle Dirteater; Jim Wolfe; Henry Dirteater; Dick and Stan Dirteater. Maggie Sourjohn and Mrs. Sam Shadoin. Their daughter Belle, Cherokee Roll 18,498, field card 7886 on Cherokee Card 9093 shows she married George Dick on November 3, 1906. On that same day she became a citizen of the United States of America.
Sallie's Granddaughter (Daughter of Mary Ann Groundhog Eslinger) is Lisa Christine Christiansen. Her great grandparent's records are:
Application Census card Roll# Name
16964 9093 9685 George Dick CRN 20850
17188 7886 9686 Belle Dirteater 18498
10389 9919 12741 Joseph L. Groundhog 26091
14697 10244 12742 Nannie Gritts 29265
The records are at the Fort Worth, Texas regional office and at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
In the Oklahoma Historical Society's Cherokee Volume 235, page 5; a schedule of the property belonging to the estate of Ground Hog, dec. totaling $99.53/1/2 is recorded. It is not dated but the schedule of property of another Cherokee just below it is dated 1867.
On page 61 of the same volume is Captain Budd Gritts' will dated December28, 1867. In volume 52, page 505; Elizabeth Ross stated in 1937 "The organizers of the Kee-too-wah Society in 1857, through the first head Captain, Budd Gritts (later a Captain of one of the Cherokee Companies in the Civil War) decreed that an annual convention be held somewhere at a convenient distance from Tahlequah.
In the National Archives in Washington these files include some genealogical information as well as data concerning their land allotments such as official land descriptions and listings of improvements."
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