Charles Roark - abigail

Hi Private User

She was not Abigail Eastridge.

Apparently there was a mixup between Abigail’s. Open up the profile or go to the attached document, it’s a “flower” posted on Findagrave. A professional genealogist was hired and the poster explains what he found.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54197476/abigail-roark/flower

Rask?

parents? of Abigail? Parents
Charles Baker (Lieut) Roark (O'Roarke)
1750–1830

Abagail Raven Canoe Cherokee Indian
1750–1820

Roark Family Tree (Decendants of David Washington Roark's next to youngest Child)
Owner: Glenn Roark

Abigail Roark
Abigail Roark
BIRTHJanuary 1800 Ashe County, North Carolina, USA

DEATH1872 Creston, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA

sources (2) records (1)
Family Info
Father Charles Roark (1750-1830)
Mother Abagail Raven Canoe Cherokee Indian (1750-1820)
Spouse Noah Mahala (1810-1902)
Married 1826
Children
Nancy Abigail (1826-1858)
William* (1830-1906)
Rebecca Elizabeth (1832-1901)
Keziah (1835-1902)
Elizabeth (1837-1929)
Jesse (1840-1910)

Name: Abigail Mahala
Maiden Name: Roark
Birth Date: Jan 1800
Birth Place: Ashe County, North Carolina, United States of America
Death Date: 1872
Death Place: Creston, Ashe County, North Carolina, United States of America
Cemetery: Mahala Family Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Creston, Ashe County, North Carolina, United States of America
Has Bio?: Y
Father: Charles Roark
Mother: Abigail Roark
Spouse: Noah Mahala
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem...

Sadly the tree has Abigail Roark’s maiden name wrong.

There was no such person as Abigail
Raven Canoe.

If Dragging Canoe had a daughter, Cherokee historians don’t know her. She would not have been named “Raven Canoe.”

You can ask more in the Cherokee history project.

By the way this is close to my own family - 2nd aunts grandmother I think. I’ve been looking at the trees almost 10 years.

See this message in the project https://www.geni.com/projects/Cherokee-Genealogy-and-History/12

https://www.geni.com/discussions/179466?msg=1206843

Dragging Canoe was Son of Attakullakulla, mother unknown, wife unknown. Father of Little or Young Dragging Canoe, no documented modern or other descendants.

Private User

I tried to explain Abigail Roark ancestry better here

https://www.geni.com/discussions/179495?msg=1207891

I will look at it but documents on the one I have is there.

Documents are where, Mary?

This is the current FindAGrave page for Abigail Roark

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54197476/abigail-roark

No parents are given, the note “reported to be Cherokee.” Burial place.

The only other records I see, in that many ancestry.com trees she’s listed in, are

- Charles Roark, early North Carolina Census (more details in the Geni Charles Roark profile)
- a Family submission on one of their children listing her as Abigail Cherokee Indian (this is not a primary source, of course)

Is there a record (not tree) I am missing looking at ?

there are several on ancestry now looks like they were just added good luck

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1267/miusa1836a_063771-00003/4...

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60090/004217924_00087/1640487?...

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1121/S123_189-2738/750442810?b...

I am looking at all of these

https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/60600271/person/324223...

ceilidh I wrote this information you've posted here several years ago. Regarding #6, in the years since writing this, I have made additional discoveries about E-sut-ee. Unfortunately, I had been working from a TRANSCRIPTION of the 1851 Siler Roll and I had incorrectly assumed that E-sut-ee was female since the prevailing thought amongst Abigail Easterd-Vanover's descendants was along that line. Later, when I was able to locate it, I viewed actual images of the 1851 Siler Roll and I quickly realized that the transcription I had been working from had omitted the sex of the people listed. The image of the Siler Roll showed clearly that E-sut-ee was a MAN. As I followed the ECA's & census of E-sut-ee's children and grandchildren they also clearly showed HE was a MAN. Yes everyone, you read that right....HE was a MAN. So now you have it. It's time to let E-sut-ee rest in peace. - (Tara Maggard) THIS UPDATE can be found at: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.vanover/408.6/mb.ashx

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LAHY7 Thank you SO very much Ceilidh!!! I'm SO very grateful for your hard work and the sharing of the information you've found! I just hope people start sharing facts instead of myth soon.

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https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/8054/4189783-00163/12563312?ba...

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60525&...

Name: Charles Roark Sr
Birth Date: 1750
Birth Place: North Carolina, United States of America
Death Date: 1830
Death Place: Creston, Ashe County, North Carolina, United States of America
Cemetery: Charles and Abigail Roark Family Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Creston, Ashe County, North Carolina, United States of America
Has Bio?: Y
Spouse: Abigail Roark
Children: Charles B Roark
Abigail Mahala
Martin Roark
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem...

Abigail name is Akweegayla (native). She is daughter of Dragging Canoe. She is not Eastridge.
I am Gg>>>>Daughter of Akweegayla and Charles Roark.

This tree

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/60600271/person/32...

Is the detailed documentation mentioned in the FindAGrave “flower”, correct. The death certificate for her son Enoch Roark clearly defines him as white.

The East Coast Band for the Cherokee has one known child for Dragging Canoe, his mother unknown, name Young Dragging Canoe, no known surviving children.

We have a Cherokee member helping members interpret the rolls, she posts in the project https://www.geni.com/projects/Cherokee-Genealogy-and-History/12

Feel free to ask questions in that Cherokee project.

My Enoch Roark has native blood. There is other Enoch Roarks that may not be native..
Through Abigail and Mary Brock Osborne.. ..my lines.

Abigail Cherokee Indian Canoe
1760–1820
Birth 1760 • in Ashe, North Carolina
Death 1820 • in Ashe, North Carolina
Relationship to me
Abigail Cherokee Indian Canoe (1760 - 1820)
7th great-aunt

Chief Klor GA SE Draging Canoe, Tsi'yu-gunsini - Canoe (tsi'yu), He is Dragging It (gunsini) U'ga'lo'gv (1734 - 1792)
father of Abigail Cherokee Indian Canoe

Nakey Sarah Tatsi (Naky Sarah Tatsi) Canoe Attakullakulla Cherokee 1st Husband Alexander William Brown (1750 - 1850)
daughter of Chief Klor GA SE Draging Canoe, Tsi'yu-gunsini - Canoe (tsi'yu), He is Dragging It (gunsini) U'ga'lo'gv

Alex Brown (1790 - 1840)
son of Nakey Sarah Tatsi (Naky Sarah Tatsi) Canoe Attakullakulla Cherokee 1st Husband Alexander William Brown
Isom Alexander Brown (1810 - 1863)
son of Alex Brown

John Thomas Brown (1838 - 1918)
son of Isom Alexander Brown

Violetta Elizabeth Brown (1864 - 1907)
daughter of John Thomas Brown

Viola Elsworth Roberts clubb (1894 - 1977)
daughter of Violetta Elizabeth Brown

Susie Marie Roberts Kelley (1914 - 1988)
daughter of Viola Elsworth Roberts clubb

Billy Gene Kelley Sr. (1933 - 2009)
son of Susie Marie Roberts Kelley
Judy Ann Kelley Townsend
You are the daughter of Billy Gene Kelley Sr.

See Abby's family photo

When Abigail Cherokee Indian Canoe was born in 1760, her father, Chief, was 26, and her mother, Nellie, was 26. . She died in 1820 at the age of 60.

Family Relationships
Children

Mary "Polly" Roark Canoe
+ 1 Child

Charles Barker Roark Cherokee

Abigail Cherokee Indian Canoe
Spouse

Charles Roark Sr.
Parents

Chief Klor GA SE Draging Canoe, Tsi'yu-gunsini - Canoe (tsi'yu), He is Dragging It (gunsini) U'ga'lo'gv

Nellie 'Leaf' Pathkiller Tatsi) (Pathkiller)