Cherokee Carmack/Gore Connection
Hi All:
I've been reading the posts regarding Cherokee connection in Livingston & Overton Co., TN.After 30 years researching my Gore Line, I am stuck in the same place and time in TN.
My Great Grandmother was Eliza Jane Gore, the dau. of William Carroll Gore, the Son of Henry Gore of Okalona, TN.Henry Gore was married to an unknown Carmack.He is buried in the Old Carmack Cem. at Okalona on the hill that is in such bad shape along where Cornelius Carmack is buried.Henry Gore's son, William Carroll Gore m/1 Jane "unknown" a Cherokee in Okalona.Mr. Nelson, the owner of the land next to the Old Carmack Cem., told me there was a Cherokee Village across the road near the creek less than 300 yards away.William C and Jane left Okalona and traveled up to the Ohio River and were enumeratd on the 1850 Census in Massac Co., IL at the Old Fort Massac there.My Great Grandmother, Eliza Jane, is on that census along with her siblings.The 1860 Census, at Osage Twp., AR reveals that Jane died and Wm. Carrol was remarried to second wife, Nancy.Nancy was also Cherokee possiblly the sister to Jane?.With much research I found that when Jane died, William C. Gore returned to Okalona and remarried there and then resumed his trip west to AR.My Great Grandmother, Eliza Jane Gore Williams, IS CHEROKEE.She told my aunt and many members in the family she was Cherokee born in Tennessee but she may not have known her mother's Indian or maiden name or family since she was about eight years old when they left Okalona, TN.Pictures of Eliza Jane Gore Williams reveal she is definitely probably half Cherokee.William Carrol and Jane's youngest son was named Banelridge - could this be Jane's maiden name??
Since the Carmacks & Gores, in the exact same area & timeframe, both married into Cherokee Families, it is likely they were the Cherokees living in Okalona.Does anyone have any further info. on these Cherokee Families - names, etc.??
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