Reverend Alini ‘Allen’ Rackley, ALINI”

Allan was a Cherokee man

Biography

Allen Ratley appeared on the 1851 Drennen Roll in Illinois District along with his son Wallace and daughter Polly.[1]

1851 Drennen Roll of the Cherokee Indians,” images, FamilySearch, Allen Ratley, page 74, (accessed 22 October 2021).

Eastern Cherokee Applications of the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1909," database with images, Fold3, Application of Wallace Ratley, (accessed 22 October 2021); citing NARA M1104.

When his son Wallace Ratley applied to share in the fund allocated to the Eastern Cherokee, he stated that he was born in January of 1839, his father was Allen Ratley, and his mother was Ellen Bolin. He stated that his father died in 1867 and his mother died about 1873. The only sibling he reported was Polly Ratley who was born about 1842 and died about 1870. The only sibling of his father that he mentioned was Clinton Ratley.[2]

Research Notes

There is currently no evidence tying Allen Ratley to the family of Thomas Rackley of Pickens District, South Carolina. Researchers should be aware that there is a great deal of misinformation about this family online, especially on FindAGrave, and proceed with caution.

Sources

1. ↑ “1851 Drennen Roll of the Cherokee Indians,” images, FamilySearch, Allen Ratley, page 74, (accessed 22 October 2021).
2. ↑ "Eastern Cherokee Applications of the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1909," database with images, Fold3, Application of Wallace Ratley, (accessed 22 October 2021); citing NARA M1104.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51424488/allen-rackley

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rackley-405
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Allan Ratley
Four Cherokee half-breeds.
One white intermarriage.
One farmer of 50 acres.
One reader of English, three mixed negroes, 1 weaver, 1 spinster.

Source: Foreman, Grant. “The Foreman Transcripts, Superintendent for Five Civilized Tribes.” Oklahoma Historical Society | OHS, 27 Mar. 1934, www.okhistory.org/. Volume 14. Cherokee–Census Roll of 1835, pg. 19

Items of information taken from census of Cherokee within the limits of Tennessee made by Daniel Henderson, Esq., census taken prior to removal.
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Research Notes

• Allen Rackley (Indian name Alini or A-lun-nih or Aunah ) also known as Ratliff / Ratley and Radcliff
• Son of Thomas William Rackley born in the old Chickamauga Nation of the Smoky Mountains (a different Thomas than Thomas Rackley of Pickens District, South Carolina)
• Allen was a student of the Brainerd Mission in Tennessee and spoke several Native languages including proper English.
• Allen’s first known wife was Gilly Timberlake (Weaver), they separated prior 1840, by 1839 likely. Allen then moved west on the "Trail of Tears".
• Allen served as a Native American guide & Interpreter between the Cherokees and the white man during the "Trail of Tears Removal". Allen traveled to Oklahoma aboard one of Chief Joseph Vann steamboats, where he was a river guide and interpreter to the Native Americans arriving to Webber Falls early 1838 and settled in the Illinois District of Oklahoma where he served as Cherokee Councilman from 1849-1859.
• The Rackleys in these families of Oklahoma Indian Nation are known as Ratliff and Ratley.

• He was a Methodist minister/preacher for the "Five Civilized Tribes".
• Allen married secondly Ellen ‘Eli’ Bolin. They named their son Wallace (Indian Name: O-Ga-Na ‘Ground hog in his hole’) in honor of Allen’s brother who died in the old Cherokee Nation in 1838. Allen’s son Wallace was a Cherokee, elected Judge in Gore Oklahoma in 1887 and was buried in Still Cemetery. Wallace named one his sons Marion Allen Ratley.
• Allen Rackley’s grave has not yet been located, his last known location of residence was in the Illinois District in Indian Territory of Oklahoma living in the Tahlonteeskee Indian Village near Gore or Sallisaw, Oklahoma where he had been elected as councilor for the Tahlonteeskee capitol of the western Cherokee Tribe.


• He is listed on the Drennen Rolls and the 1852 Miller Roll App:# 6736
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• Allen Rackleys Children: Wallace Ratley / Clinton Ratley / Polly Ratley McClain .
• Allen Rackleys Sister: Known as Lizzie or Elizabeth Rackley Robertson or Lizzy Ratley her mother married William H. Robertson, their son Wade Hampton Robertson aka Watie.


• Child of Wallace Rackley "Aka Ratley" ( ha-wi-na-di-tlv - u-tse-li - a-ta-le-sv
ᎣᎦᏅ ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ ᎤᏤᎵ ᎠᏔᎴᏒ
) was Ratley, Wallace March 20, 1844 to Apr 20, 1907 . He married Elvira Goins 1886 Webbers Falls, Canadian District, CNIT.
• Private Wallace Ratley served in the 1st Regiment of the Confederate Cherokee Mounted Reg. of General Stand Wattie, Company E. of Oklahoma during the Civil war.

• Judge Wallace Ratley appointed Tribal Court Judge 1887 Gore , Oklahoma

• Wallace and Elvira Goins had a daughter name Sarah Ratley married James Samples.

• "Wallace Ratley O-Ga-Na "
Find A Grave Memorial# 6218724 
Still cemetery Gore, Oklahoma


Children of Wallace Ratley :
Richard Ratley
Sarah Ratley Samples
Marion Allen Ratley 



Drennen Roll entries…
8275 74 Allen Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma 19815

8276 74 Wollace Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma 1963

8277 74 Polly Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma

8415 112 Jane Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma

8416 112 Dick Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma

8879 249 Joseph Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma

8899 259 Minerva Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma

8900 259 Lucy Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma

9667 185 Polly Ratley Skin Bayou District, Oklahoma