To: Marfesia K Bailey Hemmelgarn
One other thing that may be of help: I have a file written by a tireless researcher (who may not be active now). This man’s name is Carly Lamont.
Please let me know if you would like me to send it to you. He uses many Shawnee name ‘epithets’ for TBC descendants… I say this as these names might match with some of your
given names in your own tree.
regards, MMvB
Mr. Lamont’s cover letter (in the file) highlights the difficulties that arose when another man, Red Wolf, made assertions that were never fleshed out with support material. Red Wolf assertions are now widely seen as implausible as a result.
There are even stories and circumstances involving a Hawaiian man, posing as a Native American, who wouldn’t let go of his assumed identity and then committed suicide… (sad stuff) This fellow claimed to know so much about TBC but, naturally, he seems to have caused a researcher’s nightmare. He got many people’s hopes up for a Native american connection in their families… :(
~ BTW: my work is all consolidated on GENI.com , if you haven’t figured that out already
the reference:
“Note: To follow research on Ellinipsico (Elinipsico) Cornstalk, go to: http://www.geni.com/people/Elinipsico-Cornstalk/6000000019967934922?through=6000000020249628884 ”
can only be accessed if you join… The link is my best understanding of the Shawnee side of the story… It does NOT link to Thomas Bailey Christian as the tree is meant to stand for what a the Shawnee tree would look like without him in it. I can email this to you if you don’t want to join.
Many relationships are left out. Chiefs had so many sexual partners.
I do not say “wives” as many of these relationships would be akin to statutory
rape in our modern era. This was true for white frontiersmen too. They also ‘took’ partners under more than a little dubious circumstances.
The Ohio Valley was tough place in those days.
I have an unproven personal opinion that TBC and sibling adoptees’ identities were kept secret/vague for their own protection when the Shawnee of those days were being driven away and systematically killed by European ancestors. It was the kindness of the Christians who took in these orphans of (perhaps) undetermined parentage.