Tuckahoe

[Brenda Collins Dillon]

Folks: In the different catagories on the forum we have all talked about or read about the many places named Tuckahoe. This morning I recieved a piece of email and here it is again.

{ After Ahas died, Elisabeth built a house on her daughter and
son-in law's, William and Frances Merritt, farm across the Sevier
County line in Tuckahoe, Knox County, Tennessee. This community was
first called French, then Tuckahoe and now Strawberry Plains.}

Origin of Tuckahoe
http://www.tuckahoe.com/tuckahoe_is_a_mushroom.htm

Chief Logan
{Col. Shoemaker’s history deals much with Captain Logan's residence at Logan Spring, Hensheytown, where he settled upon coming here from Huntingdon County prior to 1768. His activities around Tuckahoe and his friendship with the Martin Bell family give us just cause to claim credit for Captain Logan partly belonging to Bellwood. He later moved to Tyrone, at the mouth of Bald Eagle Creek at a spring that also bears his name.}
http://www.bellwoodantis.net/cptlgn.html

That narrative, therefore, places the date of the end of ... 1738 to a Shawnee "half-breed"
named Vastina, who ... the Bell family, at (as Mr. Metz put it) "Tuckahoe". ...
http://www.motherbedford.com/Indian8.htm



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[Linda]

That first link was very well done. He seemed to have his evidence together.

[vance hawkins]

I saw on a map where there's a Tuckahoe Creek in East Tennessee that branches off of the Little Tennessee River.

It is said that Doublehead (Cherokee Chief) had a son named Tuckahoe.

Also I saw you mentioned the surname Merritt. Another of grandma's brothers was named Oscar T. Richey. He had a great-granddaughter who lives over in Lone Wolf (30 miles north of me). Her name is Sue Merritt.

Maybe just another coincidence? . . .

vance

[This message has been edited by vance hawkins (edited 12-02-2002).]

[CoheeLady]

Hello Brenda,
I want to thank you for the information you provided above. The connection of the Bell family & the word Tuckahoe, may explain why the book "Tuckahoes & Cohees" (Cohees is a european version of a Cherokee word), spoke about my ancestors as being both Tuckahoe & Cohees. As my great-great grandmother Emma Walker Bell of Appomattox, Va. married James Nelson Turner of Cambell county, Va..

In a previous post I made concerning the Boling family, I spoke about Emma & the fact that her biological father died before she was born. Leaving her mother Virginia Venable North Arthur, with no other choice but to remmarry. She married her husband's best friend Samuel Anderson Bell, Mr. Bell's father was Powhatan Boling Bell. I have the suspicion that Samuel was the biological father of Emma. Why else would she name one of her children Nannie Bell Turner?;)

Emma has been on my mind a lot lately. My Mother called me two days ago to tell me why. As today is Emma's Birthday! :) When our ancestors speak we must listen.

Brenda, it was very nice chatting with you in the new chatroom! I enjoyed it, thank you so much.
Sincerely,
CoheesLady

[TuckahoePrincess]

Hey y'all! I was excited to see your new group, CoheeLady-- I'll join when I get the chance. I'm all for active searching. I've been busy lately working on my honors thesis and all that good stuff. A question for y'all....

Does anybody on the Forum have the Tuckahoe/Cohee book by Catherine Seaman checked out of the Library of Virginia? I've been trying to get it through interlibrary loan, but its been checked out continuously since December. I'd really like to get my hands on a copy-- hehe... like I SHOULD really be doing anything OTHER than schoolwork! Can anyone help me? I would be willing to pay anyone who could get me a copy, or even Xerox me a copy (I'm such a renegade, I know). :)

Well, I must get going. We all must remember that these connections we are making are NOT coincidences. I found that the county my ancestors were from (or at least the farthest back we can trace them to-- Buckingham County) was the stomping grounds of the Monacans, enemy to the Powhatan empire. I found a link, hopefully I'll be able to find it again, talking about how a group of "Monacans" claimed to be "Cherokee" for protection when some white *essentially troups* people found them. An interesting take, I say....

[CoheeLady]

To Dennis,
Has there ever been a reunion?

coheelady:confused:

[TuckahoePrincess]

We'd like to see whatever information you have about a "supposed" Tuckahoe reunion in New York. Not like I would go, because my roots are in the South.

CoheeLady, I had a nice time talking with you the other day. I'm STILL waiting for my interlibrary loan to come in! Hopefully it will soon! :) Look into my crystal ball.... tehehe.... Inside joke. Everybody take care! :)

TuckahoePrincess

[CoheeLady]

Hello TuckahoePrincess!
I really enjoyed talking to you too, the other day. Let me know what you think of the book, after you read it. LOL at the crystal ball! :D Thanks I needed the laugh. Take care, & I'll talk to you later.
Sincerely,
Coheelady