WORDS FALL ME...Cheucunsene Kunmesee Dragging Canoe Canoe (1734 – 1792) 5th Great Grandfather

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Cheucunsene Kunmesee Dragging Canoe Canoe (1734 – 1792)
Principal Chief of the Chickamauga/Lower Cherokee



Birth 1734 in Overhill Settlements, Monroe, Tennessee, United States
Death 1 Mar 1792 in Lookout Town, Tennessee, United States

My 5th Great Grandfather
Sarah Herrin Cherokee Native American (1765 - 1820)
daughter of Cheucunsene Kunmesee Dragging Canoe Canoe

Gabriel Herren (1811 - 1901)
son of Sarah Herrin Cherokee Native American

Abigail Herrin (1835 - 1920)
daughter of Gabriel Herren

Green Berrie F Herrin (1877 - 1939)
son of Abigail Herrin

Fannie Pearl Herron (1906 - 1993)
daughter of Green Berrie F Herrin

Lorene Ashburn (1924 - 2003)
daughter of Fannie Pearl Herron

Anna Faye Allison
daughter of Lorene Ashburn

Cheucunsene Kunmesee Dragging Canoe Canoe was 
born in 1734 in Monroe, Tennessee, an only child. 
He married U. Ga Lo Gv Leaf Nellie Pathkiller in 1751. 
They had 22 children in 23 years.
 He died on March 1, 1792, in Tennessee, at the age of 58.


From the Cherokee Registry
As a 12-14 year old boy he was told he couldn't go with the war party unless he could drag the fully loaded war log canoe on land into the water. His enthusiasm and endeavors earned him the name Tsi'ui-Gunsin'ni "Dragging Canoe". This was circa 1750 when his father Atakullakulla led war parties against the French & their Native allies, including Shawnee, in the Ohio Valley

Dragging Canoe was an American Indian war leader who led a dissident band of Cherokee (joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Indians from other tribes/nations, along with British Loyalists, French and Spanish agents, renegade whites from the colonies, and runaway slaves), against the United States in the American Revolutionary War and a decade afterwards, a series of conflicts known as the Chickamauga wars, becoming the pre-eminent war leader among the Indian of the Southeast of his time. He served as principal chief of the Chickamauga, or Lower, Cherokee from 1777 until his death in 1792, upon which he was succeeded by John Watts.



                     



 












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