NN ‘Elizabeth Eughioote Onai’ Grant

This woman was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Very little is known about the Cherokee wife of Ludovic Grant. Emmet Starr simply recorded her as "a woman of the Long Hair clan." [1] [2]

A previous version of this profile claimed, without source, that "Eughioote" was the name most commonly used for her. Elizabeth, Coody and Tassel are names that have also been associated with her. Until we find valid sources for any name, she has been changed to Unknown Cherokee.
A previous version of this profile also claimed, without source, that she was daughter of “Warrior of Tomatly”. Ludovic Grant had a trading post at Tomatley, so the logical assumption is that his wife’s father was an important man of that town. The “Warrior of Tomatly” was alive in 1755, [citation needed] too old to be her father.

Ludovic Grant first lived in the Cherokee town of Great Tellico, so it is assumed this is where she was born, where they married and where their child (or children) was born. Her 1706 birth year is estimated from the birth of her first child who was born about 1728. Some researchers believe that marriages between Cherokee women and white traders were made for diplomatic and political reasons,[3] and traders certainly married Cherokee women to gain the status they needed to be effective in the nation - non-Cherokees had no status and without a clan they were essentially non-persons. [4] In return, the wife and her family now had access to an important man and to valuable trade goods. Grant's wife was the daughter of a headman possibly named Tassel (not the chief known as Old Tassel). By 1740 Grant had his own trading post at Tomatly, where his wife and her father had moved. [5]

Ludovic and his Cherokee wife were the parents of a daughter, possibly called Mary, who married William Emory, the son of trader John Amory. [6] There is speculation that there was another daughter named Catherine or Susannah.

The date and place of death of Ludovic's wife is unknown, but is assumed to be about 1750. Grant died in Charleston about 1757.

There is an unsourced Find a Grave memorial noted with her name "Elizabeth Eughioote Coody Corntassel Grant", it also has her death date as 1727.[7]
Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee People. Warden Co., Oklahoma City, OK, 1924 p.466
2. ↑ Grant, Ludovic. Historical Relation of the Facts. "It's about thrity year's since I went into the Cherokee Country where I have resided ever since." Charleston Probate Court Book, 1754-1758, p. 301, reprinted in The Journal of Cherokee Studies, Vol. XXVI, pp. 3-15. Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, N.C. 2008.
3. ↑ Cumfer, Cynthia. Nan-ye-hi Diplomatic Mother, chapter in Tennessee Women. Their Lives and Times. University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2009
4. ↑ Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1998 p. 49
5. ↑ numerous letters from Grant during this period state they are from Tomatli. Journal of the Commons House of Assembly South Carolina, 18 July 1740, 17 December 1740.
6. ↑ Starr p. 305
7.↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #152072404

See also:

George Morrison Bell. Genealogy of Old and New Cherokee Indian Families. (Barlesville, OK: , 1972) Copy at Muskogee , OK public library.

Source: The WikiTree Native American Project @ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cherokee-209

Research Notes:

• There is no evidence that the Cherokee woman Ludovic married was named Elizabeth Eughioote Tassel
• Great Tellico was a Cherokee town at the site of present-day Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where the Tellico River emerges from the Appalachian Mountains. Great Tellico was one of the largest Cherokee towns in the region, and had a sister town nearby named Chatuga (Syllabary: ᏣᏚᎦ). Its name in Cherokee is more properly written Talikwa (Syllabary: ᏖᎵᏉ), but more commonly known as Diligwa. It is sometimes spelled Telliquo, Telliquah or, in Oklahoma, Tahlequah. There were several Cherokee settlements named Tellico, the largest of which is distinguished from the others by calling it "Great".

Great Tellico, as shown on John Mitchell's 1755 map of North America

Familysearch:

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