Tuckahoe Doublehead
Abt 1787 - Yes, date unknown
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Name Tuckahoe Doublehead Birth Abt 1787 Gender Male Death Yes, date unknown 
Siblings2 Siblings Person ID I644 Main Tree Last Modified 3 Feb 2018
Father Chuqualatague Doublehead, b. 1740, Cherokee Nation 
d. Between 9 and 15 Aug 1807, Hiwasse Station, Etowah, McMinn, Tennessee, United States Mother Creat "Drags Blanket" Priber Marriage Between 1771 and 1799 Family ID F323 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Margaret Mounce, b. 16 Oct 1800, Saxton, Whitley, Kentucky, United States d. 22 Jul 1890, Pulaski, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States (Age 89 years) Marriage Abt 1815 Rock Creek, Unicoi, Tennessee, United States Last Modified 24 Jun 2009 Family ID F319 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Marriage - Abt 1815 - Rock Creek, Unicoi, Tennessee, United States 
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Notes - Tuckahoe was the brother of Cornblossom and the son of ChickamauganChief Doublehead. After the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, ChiefDoublehead and his wife, accompanied by Cornblossom and her brotherTuckahoe, moved to Hines' Cave, in what we know as Wayne CountyKentucky today. This treaty required all Cherokees to leave thecountry north of the Cumberland River. Jacob Troxel, or Big Jake, wasassigned to work with the Indians of the Upper Cumberland River. Hemade friends with a young Cherokee brave named Tuckahoe after hereached the old French trading post at Vincennes which was the centerof the western Indian trade. After their journey of about 200 milesBig Jake and young Tuckahoe came to Tuckahoe's home where Big Jake metChief DDoublehead and was received by the chief with great respect andceremony due a distinguished visitor. Not long after the close of theRevolutionary War, John Mounce and family moved to a homestead locatedat the mouth of Rock Creek on the Big Soutth Fork of the CumberlandRiver. Mounce had two beautiful daughters. Tuckahoe, fell in love withone of them, Margaret Mounce. The young couple thought it would beromantic if she were taken by Tuckahoe in an elopement. After severalhours Margarets' sister told her father that Tuckahoe had stolenMargaret. John very upset, accompanied by Jones a neighbor, pursuedthem for many miles. He finally overtook them near the present town ofMonticello, Fearing her fathers' reaction Margaret threw her armsaround Tuckahoe to protect him from harm, thus preventing her fatherfrom shooting Tuckahoe. Soon after this event, John Mounce gave hisconsent to the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the handsomeTuckahoe. Tuckahoe and Margaret Mounce wwere married and lived atChe-ry Fork, now Helenwood, Tennessee. The most prized possession ofChief Doublehead's tribe was a secret silver mine located somewhereadjacent to the Cumberland River in the general area of today'sMcCreary, Pulaski, and Wayne counties, Kentucky. The location of thissilver mine was a tribe secret which had never been revealed to awhite man. A white trader, Han Blackberne, learned of this mine andwas determined to find it. He offered to sell young Tuckahoe a fiinerifle decorated With silver, together with a fancy powder horn and afringed bullet pouch for a small amount of silver from the mine.Tuckahoe eagerly agreed. As he went to the secret mine for the silver,he was followed by Blackberne and a hired laborer by the name ofMonday. As Tuckahoe was digging the silver to pay for his new rifle,the two white men appeared. While remonstrating with Blackberne forfollowing him, he laid down a pick which he had been using. Monday, asimple-minded indndividual, grabbed the pick and struck Tuckahoe on thehead killing him instantly. Monday then threw Tuckahoe's body down adeep crevice between two large rocks and covered it with leaves, deadbranches and loose rock. He and Blackberne then starteed digging forsilver. In the meantime Princess Cornblossom learned of the deal ofTuckahoe with Blackberne and, suspecting that the trader planned tofollow him to the mine, also started for the mine as rapidly as herlittle legs would carry her in an attempt to stop her brother beforehe reached the mine site. On approaching the mine she saw the tracksof Blackberne and Monday which confirmed her suspicions. Creepingforward cautiously she arrived at the mine where she observed thetrader Blackberne resting under a tree and his hired hand Mondaydigging the silver. While her brother was not in sight, her worstfears were confirmed by the sight of his new rifle leaning against atree and large pools of blood scattered about the mine where Tuckahoehad been killed. Realizing what had happened, Princess Cornblossomdashed forward, grabbed the rifle, horn and pouch and sped down thetrail so swiftly that Blackberne and Monday were unable to catch her.Fortunately a violent thunderstormapproached on the south and west onthe headwaters of Poncho Creek and along the Little South Fork, whichmade further tracking impossible. The Princess, having reached the topof the mountain, quickly built a shelter at the site of a fallen trree,picked wild grapes and chestnuts for her evening meal, and eatheredthe storm through the night in comfort, but with a heavy heart at thedeath of her brother Tuckahoe. Resolved to avenge his death, as wellas to guard the secret of the tribe's mine, she planned to kill bothBlackberne and Monday before they could reveal the location of themine to any other white man.At the break of dawn she knew that some ofher tribe would be searching for her. Sounding the tribal distresscall she was answered immediately by two braves less than two milesdistant. Knowing that Blackberne and Monday would probably head fortheir trading station near the Fonde settlement (near what is nowWilliamsburg, in Whitley County, Kentucky) and that Ponchho Creek was araging torrent as a result of the thunderstorm it appeared Blackberneand Monday would be most likely to cross the creek at Turtleneck Ford.This ford (now called Cracker's Neck) is located about three mileswest of the present town of Stearns, Kentucky. Princess Comblossomconcealed herself on the steep hillside overlooking the ford, postedthe two braves in concealment near the creek, and awaited theappearance of Blackberne and Monday. After a long wait she saw a glintof a shiny buckle and a fancy coat and another from the handle of ahunting knife and knew that the white men were approaching. Carefullyrenewing the priming in the pan of Tukahoe's fine flintlock rifle, sherested the heavy barrel in the fork of a dogwood tree and waited.Arriving at Poncho Creek and finding it in flood Blackberne dismountedto inspect the ford before trying to cross. Sighting down the longsleek barrel, glistening with bear oil, Princess Comblossom tookcareful aim and pressed the trigger. As the shot sounded lackbern fellto earth dead of a bullet through his heart. The two braves quicklytomahawked Monday, disemboweled both bodies, filled them with rocksand threw them in the raging Poncho Creek. At last the death of thebrave Tuckahoe was revenged and the secret of the tribe's silver minewas again safe.
From A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest by Robert F.Collins, 1975
- Tuckahoe was the brother of Cornblossom and the son of ChickamauganChief Doublehead. After the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, ChiefDoublehead and his wife, accompanied by Cornblossom and her brotherTuckahoe, moved to Hines' Cave, in what we know as Wayne CountyKentucky today. This treaty required all Cherokees to leave thecountry north of the Cumberland River. Jacob Troxel, or Big Jake, wasassigned to work with the Indians of the Upper Cumberland River. Hemade friends with a young Cherokee brave named Tuckahoe after hereached the old French trading post at Vincennes which was the centerof the western Indian trade. After their journey of about 200 milesBig Jake and young Tuckahoe came to Tuckahoe's home where Big Jake metChief DDoublehead and was received by the chief with great respect andceremony due a distinguished visitor. Not long after the close of theRevolutionary War, John Mounce and family moved to a homestead locatedat the mouth of Rock Creek on the Big Soutth Fork of the CumberlandRiver. Mounce had two beautiful daughters. Tuckahoe, fell in love withone of them, Margaret Mounce. The young couple thought it would beromantic if she were taken by Tuckahoe in an elopement. After severalhours Margarets' sister told her father that Tuckahoe had stolenMargaret. John very upset, accompanied by Jones a neighbor, pursuedthem for many miles. He finally overtook them near the present town ofMonticello, Fearing her fathers' reaction Margaret threw her armsaround Tuckahoe to protect him from harm, thus preventing her fatherfrom shooting Tuckahoe. Soon after this event, John Mounce gave hisconsent to the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the handsomeTuckahoe. Tuckahoe and Margaret Mounce wwere married and lived atChe-ry Fork, now Helenwood, Tennessee. The most prized possession ofChief Doublehead's tribe was a secret silver mine located somewhereadjacent to the Cumberland River in the general area of today'sMcCreary, Pulaski, and Wayne counties, Kentucky. The location of thissilver mine was a tribe secret which had never been revealed to awhite man. A white trader, Han Blackberne, learned of this mine andwas determined to find it. He offered to sell young Tuckahoe a fiinerifle decorated With silver, together with a fancy powder horn and afringed bullet pouch for a small amount of silver from the mine.Tuckahoe eagerly agreed. As he went to the secret mine for the silver,he was followed by Blackberne and a hired laborer by the name ofMonday. As Tuckahoe was digging the silver to pay for his new rifle,the two white men appeared. While remonstrating with Blackberne forfollowing him, he laid down a pick which he had been using. Monday, asimple-minded indndividual, grabbed the pick and struck Tuckahoe on thehead killing him instantly. Monday then threw Tuckahoe's body down adeep crevice between two large rocks and covered it with leaves, deadbranches and loose rock. He and Blackberne then starteed digging forsilver. In the meantime Princess Cornblossom learned of the deal ofTuckahoe with Blackberne and, suspecting that the trader planned tofollow him to the mine, also started for the mine as rapidly as herlittle legs would carry her in an attempt to stop her brother beforehe reached the mine site. On approaching the mine she saw the tracksof Blackberne and Monday which confirmed her suspicions. Creepingforward cautiously she arrived at the mine where she observed thetrader Blackberne resting under a tree and his hired hand Mondaydigging the silver. While her brother was not in sight, her worstfears were confirmed by the sight of his new rifle leaning against atree and large pools of blood scattered about the mine where Tuckahoehad been killed. Realizing what had happened, Princess Cornblossomdashed forward, grabbed the rifle, horn and pouch and sped down thetrail so swiftly that Blackberne and Monday were unable to catch her.Fortunately a violent thunderstormapproached on the south and west onthe headwaters of Poncho Creek and along the Little South Fork, whichmade further tracking impossible. The Princess, having reached the topof the mountain, quickly built a shelter at the site of a fallen trree,picked wild grapes and chestnuts for her evening meal, and eatheredthe storm through the night in comfort, but with a heavy heart at thedeath of her brother Tuckahoe. Resolved to avenge his death, as wellas to guard the secret of the tribe's mine, she planned to kill bothBlackberne and Monday before they could reveal the location of themine to any other white man.At the break of dawn she knew that some ofher tribe would be searching for her. Sounding the tribal distresscall she was answered immediately by two braves less than two milesdistant. Knowing that Blackberne and Monday would probably head fortheir trading station near the Fonde settlement (near what is nowWilliamsburg, in Whitley County, Kentucky) and that Ponchho Creek was araging torrent as a result of the thunderstorm it appeared Blackberneand Monday would be most likely to cross the creek at Turtleneck Ford.This ford (now called Cracker's Neck) is located about three mileswest of the present town of Stearns, Kentucky. Princess Comblossomconcealed herself on the steep hillside overlooking the ford, postedthe two braves in concealment near the creek, and awaited theappearance of Blackberne and Monday. After a long wait she saw a glintof a shiny buckle and a fancy coat and another from the handle of ahunting knife and knew that the white men were approaching. Carefullyrenewing the priming in the pan of Tukahoe's fine flintlock rifle, sherested the heavy barrel in the fork of a dogwood tree and waited.Arriving at Poncho Creek and finding it in flood Blackberne dismountedto inspect the ford before trying to cross. Sighting down the longsleek barrel, glistening with bear oil, Princess Comblossom tookcareful aim and pressed the trigger. As the shot sounded lackbern fellto earth dead of a bullet through his heart. The two braves quicklytomahawked Monday, disemboweled both bodies, filled them with rocksand threw them in the raging Poncho Creek. At last the death of thebrave Tuckahoe was revenged and the secret of the tribe's silver minewas again safe.