Agnes Burleson

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Weatherford-103

Agnes was born about 1745 in Virginia, and died 20 Dec 1849 in Chowan County, North Carolina, USA. She was the daughter of Susanna and Wilkerson Weatherford.

Agnes Weatherford first married John Vann, a Cherokee Interpreter, and their children included ...

1. Keziah Vann, b: c1763, d: 10 Dec 1849, m: Martin Maney
2. John Vann, b: c1768, d: after 1834

Agnes married secondly to a Burleson and their children included ...

1. Isaac Burleson, b: c1769, d: c1846, m: Mary "Polly" A. Coleman
2. Edward Burleson, b: 15 Dec 1781 NC, m1: d: Jan 1841 Mary "Polly" Jane Metcalf, m2: Matilda Jane McKissick.

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Notes

In 1817 Agnes was examined on oath by Col. Return J. Meigs, the then Indian Agent at Calhoun and he made the entries of her grandsons, Martin Maney, John Maney and Wm. Maney (children of Keziah) for reservations in the Indian Nation near where the Town of New Philadelphia now stands” (now in Monroe County Tennessee). [2]

In 1833 part of Buncombe County went into the formation of Yancey County, North Carolina and this included the area with her son-in-law Maney's residence.

Mrs. Agnes Vann was identified as Agnes Weatherford in a record of the Office of Indian Affairs by agent Alfred Chapman on 01 Nov 1855 ...

"I have at considerable pains obtained an accurate list of the Maney family but could obtain very little evidence as will be seen in addition to what had already been furnished to the Department. The members composing it are poor and illiterate, preserving nothing more than a traditional account of their descent, and the ancestor though who they claim to have Cherokee blood lived at a day too distant to be recollected by the most aged whom I met. Martin Maney, the father of the present oldest members of the family and who died 25 years ago, was an Irishman he served in the war of the Revolution and in Col. Rutherford’s expedition against the Cherokees, and is said to have been pensioned by the General Government. He married Keziah Vann, who died about 12 years ago, the daughter of Agnes Weatherford, a white woman. Keziah is a said to have been begotten by John Vann, in part a Cherokee, who sometimes acted in the capacity of interpreter.He is said by the members of this family to have lived, after the Cherokee usage, with Agnes Weatherford as a wife until after the birth of Keziah and a son named John. When he deserted her for a Cherokee woman and she then married a white man by the name of Burlison, by who she had a numerous issue. They point to the fact as strong evidence in their behalf, that Martin Maney and his sons John and William obtained reservations under the Treaty of 1817-19; they refer to the testimony of STARR, a prominent man of the Nation, as rendered at that time; to the oath of Agnes said to be of file in the Department; and they deem it of much weigh that William Maney, who murdered Andrew Miller, should have been tried before the Federal Court at Knoxville, not before a State Court, which however, may have been because Tennessee had not at that time jurisdiction over the domain in which the murder was committed.

References

• http://www.childers-shepherd.org/VannWeatherford.html

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Source:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236770325/agnes-vann
Daughter of Wilkerson and Susannah Weatherford

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 9 2022, 6:08:51 UTC