Elizabeth Alabama Bushyhead

Elizabeth Alabama “Eliza” Schrimsher Bushyhead BIRTH 22 Oct 1827

DEATH 30 Oct 1882 (aged 55)

BURIAL Citizens Cemetery Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA

MEMORIAL ID 8471709 · View Source

Elizabeth Albama Schrimsher (Cherokee) was the daughter of Martin Schrimsher and Elizabeth Hunt Gunter; she had the following siblings: Susan J., John Gunter, Sarah Catherine, Margaret Lucretia, and Mary America Schrimsher who was the mother of William Penn Adair Rogers (Will Rogers).

She was the 3rd wife of John Lafayette Adair; they had one son: John Martin Adair who served with the Rough Riders under Theodore Roosevelt and who married and is buried beside his wife, Triphena Terrell, at Hendricks Cemetery, Cherokee Co., OK.

She was the 1st wife of Dennis Wolf Bushyhead Sr., Chief; they had the following children: Jesse Crary b. June 29, 1870 , d. July 12, 1942; Mary Elizabeth b. Dec. 13, 1873, married Thomas William Triplett; Sarah Catherine Bushyhead b. Oct. 09. 1876; and Dennis Wolf Bushyhead Jr. b. Apr. 11, 1880.

Elizabeth is listed on the 1851 Drennan Roll: Tahlequah, 374 as Eliza A. Schrimsher Jr.; 1880 Cherokee Nation Census: IL, 94 as E. A. Bushyhead; Clan: Red Paint (Gi-go-ne-li).

Family Members Parents Photo Elizabeth Hunt Gunter Schrimsher 1804–1877

Spouses John LaFayette Adair 1826–1861

Photo Dennis Wolf Bushyhead 1826–1898

Siblings Photo Mary America Schrimsher Rogers 1839–1890

Photo Martha Lucretia Schrimsher Gulager 1842–1928

Children Photo John Martin Adair 1858–1955

Photo Jesse Crary Bushyhead 1870–1942

Photo Dennis Wolf Bushyhead 1880–1961

Maintained by: R Burnett Originally Created by: Alice P. Added: 4 Mar 2004 Find a Grave Memorial 8471709

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