Record #:

15188

Author(s):

Parris, John A., Jr.

Abstract:

Sequoyah, son of a peddler called Gist and an unknown Native American woman, invented the Cherokee alphabet. He lived and traveled in western North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia until Andrew Jackson's \"Heart-Break Removal\" in the 1830s. He died in 1843 from a fever on the move west.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 19, Oct 1938, p9, 20

Subject(s):

Sequoyah, ca. 1767-1843