Re: Watts is a Cherokee name....read on....
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Lois Williams 4/27/05
Certainly Watts is a name that exists in the Cherokee -- there were several very prominent persons by that name, including two well-known war chiefs.The best information suggests that the name came into the tribe by way of a man of European ancestry who was conversant in the Cherokee language; who was hired by the British Colonial government to pacify the tribes, and who ultimately married into the tribe and gave his name to subsequent generations.
The Cherokee in general were very accepting of outsiders, and they counted people's value by their deeds and accomplishments rather than by their ancestry.Chief John Ross, who led the Cherokee from the 1830's all the way up through the Civil War, was only 1/8 blood.Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, and arguably the most famous Cherokee of all, was only 1/4.
Stand Watie was not executed.His brother, Buck Watie, also known as Elias Boudinot was among those that were killed, but even that was termed an assasination rather than an execution.Those killings occurred in 1839, and Stand Watie lived to be a very successful Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, dying in 1871.
The name Watts in the Cherokee tribe predates Stand Watie by at least two generations.The name does not come from him an any sense at all.
-duane
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