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Family Stories From the Trail of Tears is a collection edited by Lorrie Montiero and transcribed by Grant Foreman, taken from the Indian-Pioneer History Collection [152] Johnny Cash played in the 1970 NET Playhouse dramatization of The Trail of Tears. [153] He also recorded the reminiscences of a participant in the removal of the Cherokee. [154]
It also is marking the route through the county, as far as Guntersville, Alabama, of an independent group led by chief John Benge (Cherokee) on the Trail of Tears. Other groups had guides appointed by the military. Benge departed with 1,103 Cherokee on October 3, 1838.
Short title: TRTEmap1.pdf; Image title: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; Author: National Park Service: Keywords: Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
He was born as Bob Benge about 1762 in the Overhill Cherokee town of Toqua, to a Cherokee woman and a Scots-Irish trader named John Benge, who lived full-time among the Cherokee and had taken a "country wife." They also had a daughter Lucy. Benge stood out physically because of his red hair.
The remaining Ross group never supported Watie's election, though, and lived apart under their own officials. John Ross (1839–1866) Thomas Pegg, acting principal chief of the Union Cherokee (1862–1863) Smith Christie, acting principal chief of the Union Cherokee (1863) Lewis Downing, acting principal chief of the Union Cherokee (1864–1866)
Beginning in 1791, Doublehead began operating closely with the parties of his great-nephew, Bob Benge, who was to become one of the most feared warriors on the frontier, and Benge's brother, The Tail, who was then based in Willstown. In 1791, Doublehead was among a delegation of Cherokees who visited U.S. President George Washington in ...
Ross's Landing in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the last site of the Cherokee's 61-year occupation of Chattanooga and is considered to be the embarkation point of the Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears. Ross's Landing Riverfront Park memorializes the location, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cherokee Removal Memorial Park is a public park in Meigs County, Tennessee that is dedicated in memory of the Cherokee who were forced to emigrate from their ancestral lands during the Cherokee removal, in an event that came to be known as the Trail of Tears. It was established in 2005, and has since expanded.