Buck Wade

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Buck Wade, longtime member of the McAlester Archeological Society, died December 23, 2008. Buck had been a member of the Oklahoma Anthropological Survey for many years and joined the McAlester chapter at its re-instatement in December 2005.

Buck was a past recipient of the Golden Trowel award of the OAS. This award is only given to those members who have been outstanding participants and supporters in the Society. Buck attended nearly all the events of the State Archaeological Society and many of the meetings. Everyone who knew Buck loved him. His enthusiasm and knowledge about avocational archaeology, as well as his cheerful willingness to share what he knew with others, endeared him to all.

Buck will be missed by those who knew him and worked with him. The McAlester chapter will especially feel the loss of this valued friend and member. Our condolences and prayers go out to his family.

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Marjorie Lowery Mann

Born July 9 1929 Died May 10, 2009

May the warm winds of Heaven blow softly on your home,

And the Great Spirit bless all who enter there.

May your moccasins make happy tracks in many snows

And may the rainbow always touch your shoulder.

A Cherokee Blessing

Marjorie Lowery Mann was born in Briartown Oklahoma to Jack Frost Lowery and Walcie Sanders Lowery. Marjorie was survived by her husband, Charles Mann; one daughter, Gaytha (Mrs. Thomas Purdin) of Tahlequah Oklahoma; three sons, Charles Barrett and wife Kari of Oak Creek Wisconsin, David William and wife Danette of Indian Mounds Tennessee, and Carl Dwight and wife Pam of Arkadelphia Arkansas. She was also survived by sisters Amy Romine of Muskogee Oklahoma and Evelyn Killian of Warner Oklahoma and a brother, Bill and wife Margarette of Muskogee Oklahoma; seventeen grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents, a sister Viva "Babe" Swearingin, and a brother Carl Lowery. People who knew Marjorie say that she was a remarkable woman with an interest and curiosity about many subjects. Her love of history and family led her to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of Confederate Veterans.

Marjorie was descended from a distinguished linage in the annals of Oklahoma:

1. GHI GO NE LI, a descendant of Chief Moytoy and Chief Diwali Bowl, was born 1728 in Chattanooga District, TN, and died 1757 in Georgia.. Ghi-go-ne-li's mother was Oo-Loo-Tsa "Tah’ni" Nanny of the Blue Holly Clan. He married RISING FAWN, born 1730 in Cherokee Nation East, TN and also a descendant of Chief Moytoy. Rising Fawn died in 1800.

2. OO LOO TSA NANNIE, daughter of Ghi Go Ne Li and Rising Fawn, was born c. 1748 in Cherokee Nation East, TN and died c. 1787 in Cherokee Nation East. She married GEORGE CHARLES (or JOHN) LOWERY c. 1767. He was born 1740 in the British Isles, and died 1786 in Cherokee Nation East, GA.

George Lowery was a trader, miller and man of many far-ranging activities who made his home in Battle Creek valley in the Sequatchie Country, which housed the fleet of war canoes of the Chickamauga Nation. Their daughter Aky Lowery married Chief Arthur/Author Burns. Another daughter, Jenny, was the wife of Chief Tah-lon-tee-skee. Yet another daughter married a Sevier. In fact, it can be said that none of the marriages in the Lowery clan were taken lightly. Col. John Lowery married Elizabeth Shorey, and Maj. George Lowery married Lucy Benge, the possible half-sister of Sequoyah. Some Lowerys remained in the Valley Head area without being forced west. They were known for maintaining a “free loan association” to aid poor farmers, widows and other needy individuals.

3. AGI LI GEORGE LOWERY JR., known as Major George in later years, was born 1770 in Tahskeegee on Tennessee River, AL and died in 1852. His grave can be seen in Tahlequah, OK. He married LUCINDA "LUCY" BENGE.

Major George Lowry, a cousin of Sequoya, was Assistant Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation under John Ross and member of the Executive Council. He joined Ross in steadily opposing all attempts to force his people to move from their eastern lands, and later, after this had been accomplished, he was chief of council of the Eastern Cherokee at the meeting held in 1839 to fuse the eastern and western divisions into the present Cherokee Nation. As a young man he had had an adventurous career, and his knowledge of Indian customs was beyond that of any other aborigine of his time. As an officer of the Cherokee regiment in the Creek war of 1814, he had been made a major by General Andrew Jackson, for meritorious service at the battle of Tohopeka, and previous to that time, during the administration of President George Washington. he had been sent by the Cherokees then living east of the Mississippi as a delegate to the then capital of the young American Republic. He later received a "Peace" medal from the President. During the war, Major George and his brother, Col John Lowery pulled General Washington from a creek.

When Major George was in Washington as a representative of the Cherokees, he was invited to a dinner with congressmen and George Washington. A congressman commented that Indians ate roots, whereupon Major Lowery indicated a dish and said, "Pass me those roots." The dish contained sweet potatoes. The congressman left the room and Washington burst out laughing.

Major George's older brother, Lt. Col. John Lowery, also served the new republic. He commanded the friendly Cherokee who helped Gen. Andrew Jackson in the war against the Creeks in 1813-14 and was second in command with Col. Gideon Morgan when 400 Cherokee surrounded and captured the town of Hillabi, Ala., Nov. 18, 1813. The two were conspicuous also in the battle of Horseshoe Bend, Mar. 27, 1814, for which they were commended. Lowery was one of the signers of the treaties made at Washington, June 7, 1806, and Mar. 22, 1816.

4. CHARLES LOWERY, son of Major George and Lucy Benge, was born in 1829 and died in 1880. He married (2) ELLEN/ELEANOR REESE (b.1832 d. 1901). Captain Charles Lowery, commanded the reorganized Company C, the Confederate Indian Brigade 1861- 1865, under General Stand Watie.

5. RETURN JOHNSON "TURN" LOWERY was the eldest son of Charles and Ellen. Return was born in 1864 and died in 1924. He married DRUCILLA MEDLEY, and they had four children.

6. JACK FROST LOWERY (c1900-). Eldest son of Return and Drucilla Lowery. He married WALCIE SANDERS.

7. MARJORIE LOWERY MANN 1929-2009

O' GREAT SPIRIT,

help me always to speak the truth quietly,

to listen with an open mind when others speak,

and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

Cherokee Prayer

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