Hi. My name is Stephanie Currie and my family has long suspected a Cherokee connection. I’ve been tracing our Geneolagy back and I finally found it. My 6th great grandmother was Mary Keziah Tuttle or Keziah Mary Tuttle depending on where you find her information. She married Major Jacob “Wind Clan” Pennington. She was the daughter of Chief Joseph Tuttle and Poker “Booker” Hunter. I know they settled in Lawrence County TN. I would love to know more about Chief Joseph Tuttle or any of the rest of the family. My Dad always felt a strong pull to the Cherokee and almost every year we went to Cherokee North Carolina for the first full week of October. My parents and grandparents are all gone, so I’m having to do the research on my own.
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Hi, my name is Kathleen Major Jacob Wind Clan Pennington and Mary Keziah Tuttle are my 5th great grandparents. Anything you can share would be greatlyappreciated.
Thank you, Kathleen
I am related to the Poker (Booker) Hunter Tuttle and Cherokee Chief Joseph Tuttle. I would like more information on the both of them. It only comes up as Abraham Tuttle as the father of the Chief Joseph. However, nothing else on him nor Poker.
Joseph Tuttle is also my 7th great grandfather! his daughter mary is my 6th great grandmother
Cherokee Chief Joseph Tuttle and Poker Booker are my 7th or 8th Grandparents as well. Looking for more information. What a name! Poker Booker! Would love to know more!
I have doubt that Chief Tuttle was a genetic Cherokee and here are some of the reasons why I say this. Many Shawnee, Catawbas, Mvskokees, Tuscaroras, Lumbees and others were pushed into settlements that were classified as Cherokee communities and eventually identified as such. This classification was frequently a product of the governments actions ( census, mislabeling on other docs, ease of classification…) but it was also due to shared NDN neo- political beliefs….. sometimes it was just a case of happenstance.
If you look closely at the practices, name places and languages of some of these families, a few interesting findings emerge . Take the name Keziah, kezziah and Kessiah….. though a similar name is found among Hebrews ( Lot’s wife for one) a similar name is also common among Tuscarora’s and Mvskokes as well as with some Taino bands ( Casiqua/Cacique). It was easily morphed by early settlers into a known more comfortable bible name. Point being is that Chief Tuttle’s daughter was named kessiah who married Windclan Pennington. There is no Windclan in Cherokee culture with the exception of Mvskoke slaves owned by Cherokee. If the Tuttles/Penningtons were Cherokee why would they continue to give Mvskoke names to their children? I think this is the source of a lot of the confusion and the conflicting info regarding these two families. I also believe this is why they were denied placement on Cherokee rolls by the Dept of Interior. I read the DOI decision and it looks like they twisted a few statements around to support their denial.