Individual Details
Nah ko wha "George Ketchum" Ketchum
(1755 - 14 Jul 1812)
George Ketchum Descendancy Chart from The History of Craig County, pp. 185-186:
1. George Ketchum, born 1787, married 1. Lucy, married 2. Sara H.
George Ketchum, Lenape name Kakeewha. His mother was Nancy, family name not known.
His names supposedly translates into "Could Run and Catch Deer" or Catchum=Ketchum, hence the family English name of Ketchum. Twehullahlah was brave of the Delaware tribe, not a chief. He married first Ahkechelungunaqua, a sister of Memshaquaowha (Captain Patterson). (According to Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps..., p. 177, she was of the Turtle Clan).
Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2
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190. Possibly (Delaware) Twehulalla (George) Ketchum "English: Could Run and Catch a Deer, i.e., Catch Them" was born in possibly Pennsylvania. He married Ahkechelungunaqua. 191. (Delaware) Ahkechelungunaqua died about 1805.
TWEHULLAHLAH (Captain George Ketchum)
KETCHUM, George - In an interview by Field Worker J. R. Carselowy, on 9 June 1937, at Vinita, Oklahoma, Sol C. Ketchum, son of George Ketchum, said of his grandfather, George Ketchum. "He also lived on the Delaware Reservation in Pennsylvania, but died among the Delawares on the Caney River near Bartlesville, at the age of 100 years." The following item on the Ketchum Family was taken from The History of Craig County: Its People and Places, Vol. I, pp. 439-440. The publishing data are not known at this time. The article is entitled "Ketchum Family," F353:
George Ketchum was born in 1787. About 1807 he married a woman by the name of Lucy (last name unknown). Lucy and George Ketchum were the parents of five children: Lewis, born 1808, died 1904; Elizabeth, born 1810, died 1866; Charles, born 1811, died 1860; Mary, born 1814, died 1872; Jacob, born 1816, died 1866. After Lucy Ketchum's death, Gorge married a woman named Sarah A. To this union three children were born: James Ketchum, born 1818, died 1890; William Riley Ketchum, born 1827, died 1880; and David B., born 1831. The Ketchums were full blood Delaware Indians, and we know that James, the sixth child of George Ketchum was born in Indiana, but when Ketchum
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led the Delaware tribesmen to Indian Territory [present Oklahoma], they came from Kansas. After coming to Indian Territory, as the Ketchum children grew up and married they scattered, and settled in various parts of the Cherokee Nation.
KETCHUM, Nancy - The Lenape name of Nancy Ketchum was Lenape name Aupamundaqua or Aquamdegaockwe. We are using the Ketchum family name of her mother because we are not yet certain who her father is. Nancy Ketchum was married to Isaac Journeycake. To add to the confusion, her mother also went by the name of Nancy Ketchum. The biography of the latter will be added. We are currently working on verifying who her parents were. One family record shows them as William Long and Katy Ketchum. We had previously thought that her mother was Echelangonaockwe and her father Twehullahlah (Chief George Ketchum of Pennsylvania) . It is possible that these two women, both named Nancy Ketchum, were the sisters of Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilaquenaho. Researcher: Vickie Wilkins
MEKINGEES/MEKINGES/MEKINGIS Elizabeth possibly KETCHUM--[Data are being entered and edited. This is a difficult entry. I would appreciate any of your comments or ideas. Editor swifthahn@aol.com ]
Revised 12 November 2002. Mekinges and its other spellings, is a variation of the Lenape word Macunchis, meaning "Last Born," that is, "the Youngest". Her English name is Elizabeth (possibly Ketchum). She was born after 1780. Some have said that Mekinges may have been the daughter of Chief William Anderson, but there is evidence to the contrary and nothing to support the Anderson connection. (See end notes 1 and 2 for a further discussion of her ancestry). In any event, she grew up in Chief Anderson's home on the White River in Indiana on the lands reserved to the Delaware.1 Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2 Mary Smith Witcher, the compiler of Cherokee-Delaware Heritage, lists Makengiss as the eighth child of "Delaware George." Witcher, p. 145). She says, "Various names in this list were given to me by George Bullette, Jr. [...Henry Armstrong...and Sol C. Ketchum." She also says that Mekinges is a corruption of Muchenchase.3 Regarding Lenape family relationships and oral history, Ruby Cranor said "All children born to one mother are brothers and sisters regardless of who their father was." And, speaking of Sarah Finney's affidavit, said that Sarah Finney , "…was an old lady at the time she gave these affidavits, so perhaps she had forgotten some of her history."4
Mekingees was the common-law wife, in the Delaware custom, of William Conner (whom see in Biographies). He and his brother John moved to Indiana in 1800. They were the sons of Richard Conner and his wife Margaret Boyer, a white woman who was raised by the Shawnee.5 Mekinges and William Conner lived in Chief Anderson's town from 1802 until 1812, then moved south of there, to a site four miles south of present Noblesville, on the east side of the White River.6 Thompson states also states on page 43, using the same footnotes cited above above, "...the town of Chief Anderson, whose daughter, Mekinges, he married at at unrecorded time. (See 7 and 8 for a discussion of Mekinges's family relationship) William Conner built and operated a trading post there on the east side of the White River. [I will try to include a map of the area in the future.-Editor.] Because of his service to the United States Government, he was secretly promised title to the 640 acres occupied by him and his family. He eventually received title to the land.9
1. TWEEHULLAHLA Descendancy Chart (From Helen York Rose, I Walked in the
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Footsteps of My Ancestors, p 174a) Spouse 1: Achechelungunaqua of the Turtle Clan of the Delaware, a sister of Captain Patterson 2. Lepinihe 2. Tawhelalan 2. Tahleeockwe (Captain Jack/James Ketchum) 2. Ahkeelenqua (Nancy Ketchum), married Owl, a Miami 2. Echelongonaoqua 2. Wallaquanenaho, married the white trader, William Marshall Spouse 2: Mashaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware, the mother of Captain George Ketchum/Kakeewha * * * TWEHULLAHLAH Descendancy Chart: (George Ketchum) [This chart is being revised. See the entry for Twehullahla in the Biographies. Editor] 1. Twehullahlah, birth data not known. Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, birth data not known, died about 1805. Children: 2. Paopaneach (Ketchum), born ca.1771, died ca.1826 Spouse unknown 2. Tawhelalend (Ketchum), born ca.1780, died ca.1857 Spouse unknown 2. Queshatowha (Ketchum) Spouse unknown 2. Echelangonaockwe (Ketchum), born ca,1782, died ca.1825 Spouse (1) unknown. Child: 3. Aquamdegaockwe (Nancy) Spouse not known. Children: 4. Wilaquenaho, born ca.1797, died 30 October 1875, buried Gilstrap Cemetery #2, Bartlesville OK Spouse: William Marshall 4. Aukeelenqua Spouse not known. 4. Tahleockwe [or was she the daughter of Ninundekumen just below?] Spouse (2) Ninundekumen. Children: 3. Aupamundaqua, born ca.1815, died ca.1871. Spouse (1) unknown. Children: 4. Tahleockwe, born Spring of 1830, South of White Church, Kansas, died 15 January 1911, married about 1854 Spouse Rezin Wilcoxen, born 18 March 1828, died ca.1890 5. Lucinda Wilcoxen, born ca.1854 5. Emmit Wilcoxen, born ca.1865
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5. Oscar Wilcoxen 5. Leanora Wilcoxen , born 23 February 1868, died 22 December 1884 Spouse (2) Isaac Journeycake. Children: 4. Sally O. Journeycake, born ca.1840, died ca.1906 4. Robert Jordan Euphrates Journeycake, born ca.1843, died ca.1875 4. Matilda Journeycake, born ca.1846 4. Polly Journeycake, born ca.1848 4. Mary E. Journeycake, born ca.1850 4. Angeline Journeycake, born ca.1852, died about 1861 4. Joseph Journeycake, born ca.1854, died about 1897 4. Isaac N. Journeycake, Jr., born ca.1856, died ca.1916 4. Emma Journeycake, born ca.1856 3. Lusitahoqua , born ca.1817, died ca.1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loowataxwe, born ca.1823 Spouse Kockkockquas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844, buried in the Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 January 1853, died 16 April 1883, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 August 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, born 5 October 1862, died February 1869, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Amanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 December 1872 3. Aupheeheiliqua, born about 1823, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma Spouse Shingomezia 4. Lakepeshequa [Sarah "Sally Owl], born 12 Nov 1833, died December 1910. See her Descendancy Chart on this page. Spouse William Honeywell, married 1851/1852, died 1880 5. Ann Elizabeth Honeywell, born 25 December 1852, died 3 April 1853 5. Masakah, born 16 August 1854, died 7 Nov. 1892 5. Ohpemukwa, born 13 December 1857, died 1923 5. Pungishshenqua, born 28 June 1861, died 1942 5. Wapaseepamore, born 30 July 1863, died 18 August 1911 5. Enoch Honeywell, born 10 December 1866 5. Keshecoqua, born 12 March 1868, died 1918
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5. Frank Honeywell, born 13 Nov. 1872, died 13 April 1873 Spouse (2) Unknown. Children with Twehullahlah: 2. Kakeewha, born about 1787, died ca.1887 Spouse Nancy Unknown 3. Lewis Ketchum, born 1808, died 28 March 1904, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig Co., OK Spouse (1) Lucy French, married ca.1837 4. Samuel Ketchum, died 1870 4. John Ketchum, born 1843, died 1892 4. Charles W. Ketchum, born 1845, died 1868 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Zeigler, born 1834, died 1913 4. Mary Louise Ketchum, born ca.1846/1847, died 1 April 1928 4. Jane O. Ketchum, born ca.1849/1850, died 8 September 1881 Spouse Robert O'Donnel, born 1830, died 1909 5. Mary Ellen O'Donnel Spouse Busey 4. Barbara Ketchum, born ca.1850/1852, died 1894 4. Simon W. Ketchum, born 27 Feb. 1855, died 2 March 1894 4. Silas Ketchum, born 12 Jan. 1857, died 2 December 1901 4. Lucinda Ketchum, born about 1858, died 3 August 1876 4. Solomon C. Ketchum, born 27 January 1861, died 1945 4. Hatty Ann Ketchum, born 1868, died 1869 3. Charles Ketchum, born Dec. 1811, died 20 July 1860 Spouse unknown 4. Eliza Ketchum 3. Kockkockwas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 Spouse (1) Loowataxque born ca.1823, daughter of Ninundekumen and Echelangonaockwe 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 Jan. 1852, died 16 April 1883 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 Aug. 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, 5 Oct. 1862, died February 1859 4. Armanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 Dec. 1872 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Swannock-Connor 4. James Ketchum, Jr., born 3 December 1877, died 10 June 1886, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Jane Anna Ketchum, born ca.1870, died ca.1947
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4. Lucinda Ketchum, born ca.1872, died ca.1947 3. George Ketchum ( Provided by Vickie Wilkins based on data from various public sources.) ***
Another Descendancy Chart of Twelhullalah (Source?) 1. Twehullahlah Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, a Delaware woman of the Turtle Clan. Children: 2. Lapenahile, Chief of the Cape Girardeau Delaware, who died at James Fork, Missouri in 1826 2. Tawhelalen (son) 2. Tahleeockwe/Captain Jack or James Ketchum, Chief of the Turtle Clan, then Principal Chief 2. Daughter killed by the Miami Indians about 1829-1821. Children: 2. Ahkelenqua /Nancy Ketchum, born 1786, killed 1825 by Miami Indians Spouse Ninundekumen (Owl). a Miami Indian 3. Ahpamundaqua/Nancy, born 1815, died 1871 Spouse Isaac Journeycake 3. Lossetonauqua, born 1811, died 1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loatiaaqua, born 1823, married James Ketchum 3. Aupheehelaqua 2. Echelangonaoqua Spouse (2) Mehshaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware (Provided by Scott Butterfield). [To be continued when the data becomes available. Editor]
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Twehullahlah Descendancy Chart from Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps of my Ancestors, pp. 174a 177-179 [This chart duplicates some of the other data presented above. It will be sorted out later. Editor]
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Relative to the above is a Ketchum origin story that may have come from Rev. L. B. Statler's Journal, perhaps. p. 70. It is disjointed and rather hard to follow, but should probably be kept in kind for anyone doing Ketchum Family research:
He tells of the capture of a fort located where Louisville, Kentruckyy now stands and the killing of all the inmates except a mother and a little girl who were led away in captivity. The mother not being strong enough to travel as fast as the march, was tomahawked but
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they carried the little girl with them to their distant home in the North. She was reared among the Indians, but never forgot her home. She married an Indian by whom she had one daughter. In the course of time the daughter grew up and married a Delaware Indian. She raised up quite a family of sons, who were almost like white men, their complexions were so fair. They were men of intelligence, and spoke English very readily. When the Missionaries came among the Delawares they found this white woman , then a venerable woman of seventy years, living in a comfortable hewed log house like any other civilized woman. She was the first to welcome the Missionaries when they came. She could converse in Indian, French and English and made a good interpreter. She and her daughter and grandchildren were the first to come and united with the Church, and thus formed a little nucleus. The grandsons subsequently became very ready interpreters and two of the m afterwards became preachers of the gospel. The family name of the grandsons was Ketchum. The two preachers were Charles and James Ketchum. The person submitting this item, said that there must be more to this is the Statler Journal as Edith Ketchum of California wrote her that the kidnapped white child married an Indian and had one daughter and when he (the Indian) died then she married a French trader who also died and then she moved back with the tribe with her little girl and lived until she died. She was known only as "Aunt Barbara. by the missionaries. [I am trying to find the name of the person who submitted the article, If anyone knows of the whereabouts of the Statler Journal, I would be pleased to know, Editor]
Readers please note that submitters of family data are responsible for the accuracy of the data and obtaining the permission of living persons.
There are are some problems in above items. but they are included here for the benefit of Ketchum Family researchers in having all that has been printed about the family. As usual. use the above and other data with caution.
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George Ketchum Descendancy Chart from The History of Craig County, pp. 185-186:
1. George Ketchum, born 1787, married 1. Lucy, married 2. Sara H.
George Ketchum, Lenape name Kakeewha. His mother was Nancy, family name not known.
His names supposedly translates into "Could Run and Catch Deer" or Catchum=Ketchum, hence the family English name of Ketchum. Twehullahlah was brave of the Delaware tribe, not a chief. He married first Ahkechelungunaqua, a sister of Memshaquaowha (Captain Patterson). (According to Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps..., p. 177, she was of the Turtle Clan).
Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2
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190. Possibly (Delaware) Twehulalla (George) Ketchum "English: Could Run and Catch a Deer, i.e., Catch Them" was born in possibly Pennsylvania. He married Ahkechelungunaqua. 191. (Delaware) Ahkechelungunaqua died about 1805.
TWEHULLAHLAH (Captain George Ketchum)
KETCHUM, George - In an interview by Field Worker J. R. Carselowy, on 9 June 1937, at Vinita, Oklahoma, Sol C. Ketchum, son of George Ketchum, said of his grandfather, George Ketchum. "He also lived on the Delaware Reservation in Pennsylvania, but died among the Delawares on the Caney River near Bartlesville, at the age of 100 years." The following item on the Ketchum Family was taken from The History of Craig County: Its People and Places, Vol. I, pp. 439-440. The publishing data are not known at this time. The article is entitled "Ketchum Family," F353:
George Ketchum was born in 1787. About 1807 he married a woman by the name of Lucy (last name unknown). Lucy and George Ketchum were the parents of five children: Lewis, born 1808, died 1904; Elizabeth, born 1810, died 1866; Charles, born 1811, died 1860; Mary, born 1814, died 1872; Jacob, born 1816, died 1866. After Lucy Ketchum's death, Gorge married a woman named Sarah A. To this union three children were born: James Ketchum, born 1818, died 1890; William Riley Ketchum, born 1827, died 1880; and David B., born 1831. The Ketchums were full blood Delaware Indians, and we know that James, the sixth child of George Ketchum was born in Indiana, but when Ketchum
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led the Delaware tribesmen to Indian Territory [present Oklahoma], they came from Kansas. After coming to Indian Territory, as the Ketchum children grew up and married they scattered, and settled in various parts of the Cherokee Nation.
KETCHUM, Nancy - The Lenape name of Nancy Ketchum was Lenape name Aupamundaqua or Aquamdegaockwe. We are using the Ketchum family name of her mother because we are not yet certain who her father is. Nancy Ketchum was married to Isaac Journeycake. To add to the confusion, her mother also went by the name of Nancy Ketchum. The biography of the latter will be added. We are currently working on verifying who her parents were. One family record shows them as William Long and Katy Ketchum. We had previously thought that her mother was Echelangonaockwe and her father Twehullahlah (Chief George Ketchum of Pennsylvania) . It is possible that these two women, both named Nancy Ketchum, were the sisters of Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilaquenaho. Researcher: Vickie Wilkins
MEKINGEES/MEKINGES/MEKINGIS Elizabeth possibly KETCHUM--[Data are being entered and edited. This is a difficult entry. I would appreciate any of your comments or ideas. Editor swifthahn@aol.com ]
Revised 12 November 2002. Mekinges and its other spellings, is a variation of the Lenape word Macunchis, meaning "Last Born," that is, "the Youngest". Her English name is Elizabeth (possibly Ketchum). She was born after 1780. Some have said that Mekinges may have been the daughter of Chief William Anderson, but there is evidence to the contrary and nothing to support the Anderson connection. (See end notes 1 and 2 for a further discussion of her ancestry). In any event, she grew up in Chief Anderson's home on the White River in Indiana on the lands reserved to the Delaware.1 Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2 Mary Smith Witcher, the compiler of Cherokee-Delaware Heritage, lists Makengiss as the eighth child of "Delaware George." Witcher, p. 145). She says, "Various names in this list were given to me by George Bullette, Jr. [...Henry Armstrong...and Sol C. Ketchum." She also says that Mekinges is a corruption of Muchenchase.3 Regarding Lenape family relationships and oral history, Ruby Cranor said "All children born to one mother are brothers and sisters regardless of who their father was." And, speaking of Sarah Finney's affidavit, said that Sarah Finney , "…was an old lady at the time she gave these affidavits, so perhaps she had forgotten some of her history."4
Mekingees was the common-law wife, in the Delaware custom, of William Conner (whom see in Biographies). He and his brother John moved to Indiana in 1800. They were the sons of Richard Conner and his wife Margaret Boyer, a white woman who was raised by the Shawnee.5 Mekinges and William Conner lived in Chief Anderson's town from 1802 until 1812, then moved south of there, to a site four miles south of present Noblesville, on the east side of the White River.6 Thompson states also states on page 43, using the same footnotes cited above above, "...the town of Chief Anderson, whose daughter, Mekinges, he married at at unrecorded time. (See 7 and 8 for a discussion of Mekinges's family relationship) William Conner built and operated a trading post there on the east side of the White River. [I will try to include a map of the area in the future.-Editor.] Because of his service to the United States Government, he was secretly promised title to the 640 acres occupied by him and his family. He eventually received title to the land.9
1. TWEEHULLAHLA Descendancy Chart (From Helen York Rose, I Walked in the
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Footsteps of My Ancestors, p 174a) Spouse 1: Achechelungunaqua of the Turtle Clan of the Delaware, a sister of Captain Patterson 2. Lepinihe 2. Tawhelalan 2. Tahleeockwe (Captain Jack/James Ketchum) 2. Ahkeelenqua (Nancy Ketchum), married Owl, a Miami 2. Echelongonaoqua 2. Wallaquanenaho, married the white trader, William Marshall Spouse 2: Mashaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware, the mother of Captain George Ketchum/Kakeewha * * * TWEHULLAHLAH Descendancy Chart: (George Ketchum) [This chart is being revised. See the entry for Twehullahla in the Biographies. Editor] 1. Twehullahlah, birth data not known. Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, birth data not known, died about 1805. Children: 2. Paopaneach (Ketchum), born ca.1771, died ca.1826 Spouse unknown 2. Tawhelalend (Ketchum), born ca.1780, died ca.1857 Spouse unknown 2. Queshatowha (Ketchum) Spouse unknown 2. Echelangonaockwe (Ketchum), born ca,1782, died ca.1825 Spouse (1) unknown. Child: 3. Aquamdegaockwe (Nancy) Spouse not known. Children: 4. Wilaquenaho, born ca.1797, died 30 October 1875, buried Gilstrap Cemetery #2, Bartlesville OK Spouse: William Marshall 4. Aukeelenqua Spouse not known. 4. Tahleockwe [or was she the daughter of Ninundekumen just below?] Spouse (2) Ninundekumen. Children: 3. Aupamundaqua, born ca.1815, died ca.1871. Spouse (1) unknown. Children: 4. Tahleockwe, born Spring of 1830, South of White Church, Kansas, died 15 January 1911, married about 1854 Spouse Rezin Wilcoxen, born 18 March 1828, died ca.1890 5. Lucinda Wilcoxen, born ca.1854 5. Emmit Wilcoxen, born ca.1865
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5. Oscar Wilcoxen 5. Leanora Wilcoxen , born 23 February 1868, died 22 December 1884 Spouse (2) Isaac Journeycake. Children: 4. Sally O. Journeycake, born ca.1840, died ca.1906 4. Robert Jordan Euphrates Journeycake, born ca.1843, died ca.1875 4. Matilda Journeycake, born ca.1846 4. Polly Journeycake, born ca.1848 4. Mary E. Journeycake, born ca.1850 4. Angeline Journeycake, born ca.1852, died about 1861 4. Joseph Journeycake, born ca.1854, died about 1897 4. Isaac N. Journeycake, Jr., born ca.1856, died ca.1916 4. Emma Journeycake, born ca.1856 3. Lusitahoqua , born ca.1817, died ca.1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loowataxwe, born ca.1823 Spouse Kockkockquas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844, buried in the Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 January 1853, died 16 April 1883, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 August 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, born 5 October 1862, died February 1869, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Amanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 December 1872 3. Aupheeheiliqua, born about 1823, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma Spouse Shingomezia 4. Lakepeshequa [Sarah "Sally Owl], born 12 Nov 1833, died December 1910. See her Descendancy Chart on this page. Spouse William Honeywell, married 1851/1852, died 1880 5. Ann Elizabeth Honeywell, born 25 December 1852, died 3 April 1853 5. Masakah, born 16 August 1854, died 7 Nov. 1892 5. Ohpemukwa, born 13 December 1857, died 1923 5. Pungishshenqua, born 28 June 1861, died 1942 5. Wapaseepamore, born 30 July 1863, died 18 August 1911 5. Enoch Honeywell, born 10 December 1866 5. Keshecoqua, born 12 March 1868, died 1918
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5. Frank Honeywell, born 13 Nov. 1872, died 13 April 1873 Spouse (2) Unknown. Children with Twehullahlah: 2. Kakeewha, born about 1787, died ca.1887 Spouse Nancy Unknown 3. Lewis Ketchum, born 1808, died 28 March 1904, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig Co., OK Spouse (1) Lucy French, married ca.1837 4. Samuel Ketchum, died 1870 4. John Ketchum, born 1843, died 1892 4. Charles W. Ketchum, born 1845, died 1868 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Zeigler, born 1834, died 1913 4. Mary Louise Ketchum, born ca.1846/1847, died 1 April 1928 4. Jane O. Ketchum, born ca.1849/1850, died 8 September 1881 Spouse Robert O'Donnel, born 1830, died 1909 5. Mary Ellen O'Donnel Spouse Busey 4. Barbara Ketchum, born ca.1850/1852, died 1894 4. Simon W. Ketchum, born 27 Feb. 1855, died 2 March 1894 4. Silas Ketchum, born 12 Jan. 1857, died 2 December 1901 4. Lucinda Ketchum, born about 1858, died 3 August 1876 4. Solomon C. Ketchum, born 27 January 1861, died 1945 4. Hatty Ann Ketchum, born 1868, died 1869 3. Charles Ketchum, born Dec. 1811, died 20 July 1860 Spouse unknown 4. Eliza Ketchum 3. Kockkockwas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 Spouse (1) Loowataxque born ca.1823, daughter of Ninundekumen and Echelangonaockwe 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 Jan. 1852, died 16 April 1883 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 Aug. 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, 5 Oct. 1862, died February 1859 4. Armanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 Dec. 1872 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Swannock-Connor 4. James Ketchum, Jr., born 3 December 1877, died 10 June 1886, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Jane Anna Ketchum, born ca.1870, died ca.1947
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4. Lucinda Ketchum, born ca.1872, died ca.1947 3. George Ketchum ( Provided by Vickie Wilkins based on data from various public sources.) ***
Another Descendancy Chart of Twelhullalah (Source?) 1. Twehullahlah Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, a Delaware woman of the Turtle Clan. Children: 2. Lapenahile, Chief of the Cape Girardeau Delaware, who died at James Fork, Missouri in 1826 2. Tawhelalen (son) 2. Tahleeockwe/Captain Jack or James Ketchum, Chief of the Turtle Clan, then Principal Chief 2. Daughter killed by the Miami Indians about 1829-1821. Children: 2. Ahkelenqua /Nancy Ketchum, born 1786, killed 1825 by Miami Indians Spouse Ninundekumen (Owl). a Miami Indian 3. Ahpamundaqua/Nancy, born 1815, died 1871 Spouse Isaac Journeycake 3. Lossetonauqua, born 1811, died 1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loatiaaqua, born 1823, married James Ketchum 3. Aupheehelaqua 2. Echelangonaoqua Spouse (2) Mehshaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware (Provided by Scott Butterfield). [To be continued when the data becomes available. Editor]
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Twehullahlah Descendancy Chart from Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps of my Ancestors, pp. 174a 177-179 [This chart duplicates some of the other data presented above. It will be sorted out later. Editor]
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Relative to the above is a Ketchum origin story that may have come from Rev. L. B. Statler's Journal, perhaps. p. 70. It is disjointed and rather hard to follow, but should probably be kept in kind for anyone doing Ketchum Family research:
He tells of the capture of a fort located where Louisville, Kentruckyy now stands and the killing of all the inmates except a mother and a little girl who were led away in captivity. The mother not being strong enough to travel as fast as the march, was tomahawked but
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they carried the little girl with them to their distant home in the North. She was reared among the Indians, but never forgot her home. She married an Indian by whom she had one daughter. In the course of time the daughter grew up and married a Delaware Indian. She raised up quite a family of sons, who were almost like white men, their complexions were so fair. They were men of intelligence, and spoke English very readily. When the Missionaries came among the Delawares they found this white woman , then a venerable woman of seventy years, living in a comfortable hewed log house like any other civilized woman. She was the first to welcome the Missionaries when they came. She could converse in Indian, French and English and made a good interpreter. She and her daughter and grandchildren were the first to come and united with the Church, and thus formed a little nucleus. The grandsons subsequently became very ready interpreters and two of the m afterwards became preachers of the gospel. The family name of the grandsons was Ketchum. The two preachers were Charles and James Ketchum. The person submitting this item, said that there must be more to this is the Statler Journal as Edith Ketchum of California wrote her that the kidnapped white child married an Indian and had one daughter and when he (the Indian) died then she married a French trader who also died and then she moved back with the tribe with her little girl and lived until she died. She was known only as "Aunt Barbara. by the missionaries. [I am trying to find the name of the person who submitted the article, If anyone knows of the whereabouts of the Statler Journal, I would be pleased to know, Editor]
Readers please note that submitters of family data are responsible for the accuracy of the data and obtaining the permission of living persons.
There are are some problems in above items. but they are included here for the benefit of Ketchum Family researchers in having all that has been printed about the family. As usual. use the above and other data with caution.
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George Ketchum Descendancy Chart from The History of Craig County, pp. 185-186:
1. George Ketchum, born 1787, married 1. Lucy, married 2. Sara H.
George Ketchum, Lenape name Kakeewha. His mother was Nancy, family name not known.
His names supposedly translates into "Could Run and Catch Deer" or Catchum=Ketchum, hence the family English name of Ketchum. Twehullahlah was brave of the Delaware tribe, not a chief. He married first Ahkechelungunaqua, a sister of Memshaquaowha (Captain Patterson). (According to Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps..., p. 177, she was of the Turtle Clan).
Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2
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190. Possibly (Delaware) Twehulalla (George) Ketchum "English: Could Run and Catch a Deer, i.e., Catch Them" was born in possibly Pennsylvania. He married Ahkechelungunaqua. 191. (Delaware) Ahkechelungunaqua died about 1805.
TWEHULLAHLAH (Captain George Ketchum)
KETCHUM, George - In an interview by Field Worker J. R. Carselowy, on 9 June 1937, at Vinita, Oklahoma, Sol C. Ketchum, son of George Ketchum, said of his grandfather, George Ketchum. "He also lived on the Delaware Reservation in Pennsylvania, but died among the Delawares on the Caney River near Bartlesville, at the age of 100 years." The following item on the Ketchum Family was taken from The History of Craig County: Its People and Places, Vol. I, pp. 439-440. The publishing data are not known at this time. The article is entitled "Ketchum Family," F353:
George Ketchum was born in 1787. About 1807 he married a woman by the name of Lucy (last name unknown). Lucy and George Ketchum were the parents of five children: Lewis, born 1808, died 1904; Elizabeth, born 1810, died 1866; Charles, born 1811, died 1860; Mary, born 1814, died 1872; Jacob, born 1816, died 1866. After Lucy Ketchum's death, Gorge married a woman named Sarah A. To this union three children were born: James Ketchum, born 1818, died 1890; William Riley Ketchum, born 1827, died 1880; and David B., born 1831. The Ketchums were full blood Delaware Indians, and we know that James, the sixth child of George Ketchum was born in Indiana, but when Ketchum
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led the Delaware tribesmen to Indian Territory [present Oklahoma], they came from Kansas. After coming to Indian Territory, as the Ketchum children grew up and married they scattered, and settled in various parts of the Cherokee Nation.
KETCHUM, Nancy - The Lenape name of Nancy Ketchum was Lenape name Aupamundaqua or Aquamdegaockwe. We are using the Ketchum family name of her mother because we are not yet certain who her father is. Nancy Ketchum was married to Isaac Journeycake. To add to the confusion, her mother also went by the name of Nancy Ketchum. The biography of the latter will be added. We are currently working on verifying who her parents were. One family record shows them as William Long and Katy Ketchum. We had previously thought that her mother was Echelangonaockwe and her father Twehullahlah (Chief George Ketchum of Pennsylvania) . It is possible that these two women, both named Nancy Ketchum, were the sisters of Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilaquenaho. Researcher: Vickie Wilkins
MEKINGEES/MEKINGES/MEKINGIS Elizabeth possibly KETCHUM--[Data are being entered and edited. This is a difficult entry. I would appreciate any of your comments or ideas. Editor swifthahn@aol.com ]
Revised 12 November 2002. Mekinges and its other spellings, is a variation of the Lenape word Macunchis, meaning "Last Born," that is, "the Youngest". Her English name is Elizabeth (possibly Ketchum). She was born after 1780. Some have said that Mekinges may have been the daughter of Chief William Anderson, but there is evidence to the contrary and nothing to support the Anderson connection. (See end notes 1 and 2 for a further discussion of her ancestry). In any event, she grew up in Chief Anderson's home on the White River in Indiana on the lands reserved to the Delaware.1 Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2 Mary Smith Witcher, the compiler of Cherokee-Delaware Heritage, lists Makengiss as the eighth child of "Delaware George." Witcher, p. 145). She says, "Various names in this list were given to me by George Bullette, Jr. [...Henry Armstrong...and Sol C. Ketchum." She also says that Mekinges is a corruption of Muchenchase.3 Regarding Lenape family relationships and oral history, Ruby Cranor said "All children born to one mother are brothers and sisters regardless of who their father was." And, speaking of Sarah Finney's affidavit, said that Sarah Finney , "…was an old lady at the time she gave these affidavits, so perhaps she had forgotten some of her history."4
Mekingees was the common-law wife, in the Delaware custom, of William Conner (whom see in Biographies). He and his brother John moved to Indiana in 1800. They were the sons of Richard Conner and his wife Margaret Boyer, a white woman who was raised by the Shawnee.5 Mekinges and William Conner lived in Chief Anderson's town from 1802 until 1812, then moved south of there, to a site four miles south of present Noblesville, on the east side of the White River.6 Thompson states also states on page 43, using the same footnotes cited above above, "...the town of Chief Anderson, whose daughter, Mekinges, he married at at unrecorded time. (See 7 and 8 for a discussion of Mekinges's family relationship) William Conner built and operated a trading post there on the east side of the White River. [I will try to include a map of the area in the future.-Editor.] Because of his service to the United States Government, he was secretly promised title to the 640 acres occupied by him and his family. He eventually received title to the land.9
1. TWEEHULLAHLA Descendancy Chart (From Helen York Rose, I Walked in the
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Footsteps of My Ancestors, p 174a) Spouse 1: Achechelungunaqua of the Turtle Clan of the Delaware, a sister of Captain Patterson 2. Lepinihe 2. Tawhelalan 2. Tahleeockwe (Captain Jack/James Ketchum) 2. Ahkeelenqua (Nancy Ketchum), married Owl, a Miami 2. Echelongonaoqua 2. Wallaquanenaho, married the white trader, William Marshall Spouse 2: Mashaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware, the mother of Captain George Ketchum/Kakeewha * * * TWEHULLAHLAH Descendancy Chart: (George Ketchum) [This chart is being revised. See the entry for Twehullahla in the Biographies. Editor] 1. Twehullahlah, birth data not known. Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, birth data not known, died about 1805. Children: 2. Paopaneach (Ketchum), born ca.1771, died ca.1826 Spouse unknown 2. Tawhelalend (Ketchum), born ca.1780, died ca.1857 Spouse unknown 2. Queshatowha (Ketchum) Spouse unknown 2. Echelangonaockwe (Ketchum), born ca,1782, died ca.1825 Spouse (1) unknown. Child: 3. Aquamdegaockwe (Nancy) Spouse not known. Children: 4. Wilaquenaho, born ca.1797, died 30 October 1875, buried Gilstrap Cemetery #2, Bartlesville OK Spouse: William Marshall 4. Aukeelenqua Spouse not known. 4. Tahleockwe [or was she the daughter of Ninundekumen just below?] Spouse (2) Ninundekumen. Children: 3. Aupamundaqua, born ca.1815, died ca.1871. Spouse (1) unknown. Children: 4. Tahleockwe, born Spring of 1830, South of White Church, Kansas, died 15 January 1911, married about 1854 Spouse Rezin Wilcoxen, born 18 March 1828, died ca.1890 5. Lucinda Wilcoxen, born ca.1854 5. Emmit Wilcoxen, born ca.1865
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5. Oscar Wilcoxen 5. Leanora Wilcoxen , born 23 February 1868, died 22 December 1884 Spouse (2) Isaac Journeycake. Children: 4. Sally O. Journeycake, born ca.1840, died ca.1906 4. Robert Jordan Euphrates Journeycake, born ca.1843, died ca.1875 4. Matilda Journeycake, born ca.1846 4. Polly Journeycake, born ca.1848 4. Mary E. Journeycake, born ca.1850 4. Angeline Journeycake, born ca.1852, died about 1861 4. Joseph Journeycake, born ca.1854, died about 1897 4. Isaac N. Journeycake, Jr., born ca.1856, died ca.1916 4. Emma Journeycake, born ca.1856 3. Lusitahoqua , born ca.1817, died ca.1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loowataxwe, born ca.1823 Spouse Kockkockquas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844, buried in the Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 January 1853, died 16 April 1883, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 August 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, born 5 October 1862, died February 1869, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Amanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 December 1872 3. Aupheeheiliqua, born about 1823, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma Spouse Shingomezia 4. Lakepeshequa [Sarah "Sally Owl], born 12 Nov 1833, died December 1910. See her Descendancy Chart on this page. Spouse William Honeywell, married 1851/1852, died 1880 5. Ann Elizabeth Honeywell, born 25 December 1852, died 3 April 1853 5. Masakah, born 16 August 1854, died 7 Nov. 1892 5. Ohpemukwa, born 13 December 1857, died 1923 5. Pungishshenqua, born 28 June 1861, died 1942 5. Wapaseepamore, born 30 July 1863, died 18 August 1911 5. Enoch Honeywell, born 10 December 1866 5. Keshecoqua, born 12 March 1868, died 1918
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5. Frank Honeywell, born 13 Nov. 1872, died 13 April 1873 Spouse (2) Unknown. Children with Twehullahlah: 2. Kakeewha, born about 1787, died ca.1887 Spouse Nancy Unknown 3. Lewis Ketchum, born 1808, died 28 March 1904, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig Co., OK Spouse (1) Lucy French, married ca.1837 4. Samuel Ketchum, died 1870 4. John Ketchum, born 1843, died 1892 4. Charles W. Ketchum, born 1845, died 1868 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Zeigler, born 1834, died 1913 4. Mary Louise Ketchum, born ca.1846/1847, died 1 April 1928 4. Jane O. Ketchum, born ca.1849/1850, died 8 September 1881 Spouse Robert O'Donnel, born 1830, died 1909 5. Mary Ellen O'Donnel Spouse Busey 4. Barbara Ketchum, born ca.1850/1852, died 1894 4. Simon W. Ketchum, born 27 Feb. 1855, died 2 March 1894 4. Silas Ketchum, born 12 Jan. 1857, died 2 December 1901 4. Lucinda Ketchum, born about 1858, died 3 August 1876 4. Solomon C. Ketchum, born 27 January 1861, died 1945 4. Hatty Ann Ketchum, born 1868, died 1869 3. Charles Ketchum, born Dec. 1811, died 20 July 1860 Spouse unknown 4. Eliza Ketchum 3. Kockkockwas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 Spouse (1) Loowataxque born ca.1823, daughter of Ninundekumen and Echelangonaockwe 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 Jan. 1852, died 16 April 1883 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 Aug. 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, 5 Oct. 1862, died February 1859 4. Armanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 Dec. 1872 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Swannock-Connor 4. James Ketchum, Jr., born 3 December 1877, died 10 June 1886, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Jane Anna Ketchum, born ca.1870, died ca.1947
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4. Lucinda Ketchum, born ca.1872, died ca.1947 3. George Ketchum ( Provided by Vickie Wilkins based on data from various public sources.) ***
Another Descendancy Chart of Twelhullalah (Source?) 1. Twehullahlah Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, a Delaware woman of the Turtle Clan. Children: 2. Lapenahile, Chief of the Cape Girardeau Delaware, who died at James Fork, Missouri in 1826 2. Tawhelalen (son) 2. Tahleeockwe/Captain Jack or James Ketchum, Chief of the Turtle Clan, then Principal Chief 2. Daughter killed by the Miami Indians about 1829-1821. Children: 2. Ahkelenqua /Nancy Ketchum, born 1786, killed 1825 by Miami Indians Spouse Ninundekumen (Owl). a Miami Indian 3. Ahpamundaqua/Nancy, born 1815, died 1871 Spouse Isaac Journeycake 3. Lossetonauqua, born 1811, died 1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loatiaaqua, born 1823, married James Ketchum 3. Aupheehelaqua 2. Echelangonaoqua Spouse (2) Mehshaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware (Provided by Scott Butterfield). [To be continued when the data becomes available. Editor]
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Twehullahlah Descendancy Chart from Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps of my Ancestors, pp. 174a 177-179 [This chart duplicates some of the other data presented above. It will be sorted out later. Editor]
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Relative to the above is a Ketchum origin story that may have come from Rev. L. B. Statler's Journal, perhaps. p. 70. It is disjointed and rather hard to follow, but should probably be kept in kind for anyone doing Ketchum Family research:
He tells of the capture of a fort located where Louisville, Kentruckyy now stands and the killing of all the inmates except a mother and a little girl who were led away in captivity. The mother not being strong enough to travel as fast as the march, was tomahawked but
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they carried the little girl with them to their distant home in the North. She was reared among the Indians, but never forgot her home. She married an Indian by whom she had one daughter. In the course of time the daughter grew up and married a Delaware Indian. She raised up quite a family of sons, who were almost like white men, their complexions were so fair. They were men of intelligence, and spoke English very readily. When the Missionaries came among the Delawares they found this white woman , then a venerable woman of seventy years, living in a comfortable hewed log house like any other civilized woman. She was the first to welcome the Missionaries when they came. She could converse in Indian, French and English and made a good interpreter. She and her daughter and grandchildren were the first to come and united with the Church, and thus formed a little nucleus. The grandsons subsequently became very ready interpreters and two of the m afterwards became preachers of the gospel. The family name of the grandsons was Ketchum. The two preachers were Charles and James Ketchum. The person submitting this item, said that there must be more to this is the Statler Journal as Edith Ketchum of California wrote her that the kidnapped white child married an Indian and had one daughter and when he (the Indian) died then she married a French trader who also died and then she moved back with the tribe with her little girl and lived until she died. She was known only as "Aunt Barbara. by the missionaries. [I am trying to find the name of the person who submitted the article, If anyone knows of the whereabouts of the Statler Journal, I would be pleased to know, Editor]
Readers please note that submitters of family data are responsible for the accuracy of the data and obtaining the permission of living persons.
There are are some problems in above items. but they are included here for the benefit of Ketchum Family researchers in having all that has been printed about the family. As usual. use the above and other data with caution.
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1. George Ketchum, born 1787, married 1. Lucy, married 2. Sara H.
George Ketchum, Lenape name Kakeewha. His mother was Nancy, family name not known.
His names supposedly translates into "Could Run and Catch Deer" or Catchum=Ketchum, hence the family English name of Ketchum. Twehullahlah was brave of the Delaware tribe, not a chief. He married first Ahkechelungunaqua, a sister of Memshaquaowha (Captain Patterson). (According to Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps..., p. 177, she was of the Turtle Clan).
Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2
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190. Possibly (Delaware) Twehulalla (George) Ketchum "English: Could Run and Catch a Deer, i.e., Catch Them" was born in possibly Pennsylvania. He married Ahkechelungunaqua. 191. (Delaware) Ahkechelungunaqua died about 1805.
TWEHULLAHLAH (Captain George Ketchum)
KETCHUM, George - In an interview by Field Worker J. R. Carselowy, on 9 June 1937, at Vinita, Oklahoma, Sol C. Ketchum, son of George Ketchum, said of his grandfather, George Ketchum. "He also lived on the Delaware Reservation in Pennsylvania, but died among the Delawares on the Caney River near Bartlesville, at the age of 100 years." The following item on the Ketchum Family was taken from The History of Craig County: Its People and Places, Vol. I, pp. 439-440. The publishing data are not known at this time. The article is entitled "Ketchum Family," F353:
George Ketchum was born in 1787. About 1807 he married a woman by the name of Lucy (last name unknown). Lucy and George Ketchum were the parents of five children: Lewis, born 1808, died 1904; Elizabeth, born 1810, died 1866; Charles, born 1811, died 1860; Mary, born 1814, died 1872; Jacob, born 1816, died 1866. After Lucy Ketchum's death, Gorge married a woman named Sarah A. To this union three children were born: James Ketchum, born 1818, died 1890; William Riley Ketchum, born 1827, died 1880; and David B., born 1831. The Ketchums were full blood Delaware Indians, and we know that James, the sixth child of George Ketchum was born in Indiana, but when Ketchum
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led the Delaware tribesmen to Indian Territory [present Oklahoma], they came from Kansas. After coming to Indian Territory, as the Ketchum children grew up and married they scattered, and settled in various parts of the Cherokee Nation.
KETCHUM, Nancy - The Lenape name of Nancy Ketchum was Lenape name Aupamundaqua or Aquamdegaockwe. We are using the Ketchum family name of her mother because we are not yet certain who her father is. Nancy Ketchum was married to Isaac Journeycake. To add to the confusion, her mother also went by the name of Nancy Ketchum. The biography of the latter will be added. We are currently working on verifying who her parents were. One family record shows them as William Long and Katy Ketchum. We had previously thought that her mother was Echelangonaockwe and her father Twehullahlah (Chief George Ketchum of Pennsylvania) . It is possible that these two women, both named Nancy Ketchum, were the sisters of Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilaquenaho. Researcher: Vickie Wilkins
MEKINGEES/MEKINGES/MEKINGIS Elizabeth possibly KETCHUM--[Data are being entered and edited. This is a difficult entry. I would appreciate any of your comments or ideas. Editor swifthahn@aol.com ]
Revised 12 November 2002. Mekinges and its other spellings, is a variation of the Lenape word Macunchis, meaning "Last Born," that is, "the Youngest". Her English name is Elizabeth (possibly Ketchum). She was born after 1780. Some have said that Mekinges may have been the daughter of Chief William Anderson, but there is evidence to the contrary and nothing to support the Anderson connection. (See end notes 1 and 2 for a further discussion of her ancestry). In any event, she grew up in Chief Anderson's home on the White River in Indiana on the lands reserved to the Delaware.1 Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2 Mary Smith Witcher, the compiler of Cherokee-Delaware Heritage, lists Makengiss as the eighth child of "Delaware George." Witcher, p. 145). She says, "Various names in this list were given to me by George Bullette, Jr. [...Henry Armstrong...and Sol C. Ketchum." She also says that Mekinges is a corruption of Muchenchase.3 Regarding Lenape family relationships and oral history, Ruby Cranor said "All children born to one mother are brothers and sisters regardless of who their father was." And, speaking of Sarah Finney's affidavit, said that Sarah Finney , "…was an old lady at the time she gave these affidavits, so perhaps she had forgotten some of her history."4
Mekingees was the common-law wife, in the Delaware custom, of William Conner (whom see in Biographies). He and his brother John moved to Indiana in 1800. They were the sons of Richard Conner and his wife Margaret Boyer, a white woman who was raised by the Shawnee.5 Mekinges and William Conner lived in Chief Anderson's town from 1802 until 1812, then moved south of there, to a site four miles south of present Noblesville, on the east side of the White River.6 Thompson states also states on page 43, using the same footnotes cited above above, "...the town of Chief Anderson, whose daughter, Mekinges, he married at at unrecorded time. (See 7 and 8 for a discussion of Mekinges's family relationship) William Conner built and operated a trading post there on the east side of the White River. [I will try to include a map of the area in the future.-Editor.] Because of his service to the United States Government, he was secretly promised title to the 640 acres occupied by him and his family. He eventually received title to the land.9
1. TWEEHULLAHLA Descendancy Chart (From Helen York Rose, I Walked in the
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Footsteps of My Ancestors, p 174a) Spouse 1: Achechelungunaqua of the Turtle Clan of the Delaware, a sister of Captain Patterson 2. Lepinihe 2. Tawhelalan 2. Tahleeockwe (Captain Jack/James Ketchum) 2. Ahkeelenqua (Nancy Ketchum), married Owl, a Miami 2. Echelongonaoqua 2. Wallaquanenaho, married the white trader, William Marshall Spouse 2: Mashaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware, the mother of Captain George Ketchum/Kakeewha * * * TWEHULLAHLAH Descendancy Chart: (George Ketchum) [This chart is being revised. See the entry for Twehullahla in the Biographies. Editor] 1. Twehullahlah, birth data not known. Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, birth data not known, died about 1805. Children: 2. Paopaneach (Ketchum), born ca.1771, died ca.1826 Spouse unknown 2. Tawhelalend (Ketchum), born ca.1780, died ca.1857 Spouse unknown 2. Queshatowha (Ketchum) Spouse unknown 2. Echelangonaockwe (Ketchum), born ca,1782, died ca.1825 Spouse (1) unknown. Child: 3. Aquamdegaockwe (Nancy) Spouse not known. Children: 4. Wilaquenaho, born ca.1797, died 30 October 1875, buried Gilstrap Cemetery #2, Bartlesville OK Spouse: William Marshall 4. Aukeelenqua Spouse not known. 4. Tahleockwe [or was she the daughter of Ninundekumen just below?] Spouse (2) Ninundekumen. Children: 3. Aupamundaqua, born ca.1815, died ca.1871. Spouse (1) unknown. Children: 4. Tahleockwe, born Spring of 1830, South of White Church, Kansas, died 15 January 1911, married about 1854 Spouse Rezin Wilcoxen, born 18 March 1828, died ca.1890 5. Lucinda Wilcoxen, born ca.1854 5. Emmit Wilcoxen, born ca.1865
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5. Oscar Wilcoxen 5. Leanora Wilcoxen , born 23 February 1868, died 22 December 1884 Spouse (2) Isaac Journeycake. Children: 4. Sally O. Journeycake, born ca.1840, died ca.1906 4. Robert Jordan Euphrates Journeycake, born ca.1843, died ca.1875 4. Matilda Journeycake, born ca.1846 4. Polly Journeycake, born ca.1848 4. Mary E. Journeycake, born ca.1850 4. Angeline Journeycake, born ca.1852, died about 1861 4. Joseph Journeycake, born ca.1854, died about 1897 4. Isaac N. Journeycake, Jr., born ca.1856, died ca.1916 4. Emma Journeycake, born ca.1856 3. Lusitahoqua , born ca.1817, died ca.1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loowataxwe, born ca.1823 Spouse Kockkockquas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844, buried in the Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 January 1853, died 16 April 1883, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 August 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, born 5 October 1862, died February 1869, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Amanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 December 1872 3. Aupheeheiliqua, born about 1823, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma Spouse Shingomezia 4. Lakepeshequa [Sarah "Sally Owl], born 12 Nov 1833, died December 1910. See her Descendancy Chart on this page. Spouse William Honeywell, married 1851/1852, died 1880 5. Ann Elizabeth Honeywell, born 25 December 1852, died 3 April 1853 5. Masakah, born 16 August 1854, died 7 Nov. 1892 5. Ohpemukwa, born 13 December 1857, died 1923 5. Pungishshenqua, born 28 June 1861, died 1942 5. Wapaseepamore, born 30 July 1863, died 18 August 1911 5. Enoch Honeywell, born 10 December 1866 5. Keshecoqua, born 12 March 1868, died 1918
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5. Frank Honeywell, born 13 Nov. 1872, died 13 April 1873 Spouse (2) Unknown. Children with Twehullahlah: 2. Kakeewha, born about 1787, died ca.1887 Spouse Nancy Unknown 3. Lewis Ketchum, born 1808, died 28 March 1904, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig Co., OK Spouse (1) Lucy French, married ca.1837 4. Samuel Ketchum, died 1870 4. John Ketchum, born 1843, died 1892 4. Charles W. Ketchum, born 1845, died 1868 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Zeigler, born 1834, died 1913 4. Mary Louise Ketchum, born ca.1846/1847, died 1 April 1928 4. Jane O. Ketchum, born ca.1849/1850, died 8 September 1881 Spouse Robert O'Donnel, born 1830, died 1909 5. Mary Ellen O'Donnel Spouse Busey 4. Barbara Ketchum, born ca.1850/1852, died 1894 4. Simon W. Ketchum, born 27 Feb. 1855, died 2 March 1894 4. Silas Ketchum, born 12 Jan. 1857, died 2 December 1901 4. Lucinda Ketchum, born about 1858, died 3 August 1876 4. Solomon C. Ketchum, born 27 January 1861, died 1945 4. Hatty Ann Ketchum, born 1868, died 1869 3. Charles Ketchum, born Dec. 1811, died 20 July 1860 Spouse unknown 4. Eliza Ketchum 3. Kockkockwas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 Spouse (1) Loowataxque born ca.1823, daughter of Ninundekumen and Echelangonaockwe 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 Jan. 1852, died 16 April 1883 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 Aug. 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, 5 Oct. 1862, died February 1859 4. Armanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 Dec. 1872 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Swannock-Connor 4. James Ketchum, Jr., born 3 December 1877, died 10 June 1886, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Jane Anna Ketchum, born ca.1870, died ca.1947
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4. Lucinda Ketchum, born ca.1872, died ca.1947 3. George Ketchum ( Provided by Vickie Wilkins based on data from various public sources.) ***
Another Descendancy Chart of Twelhullalah (Source?) 1. Twehullahlah Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, a Delaware woman of the Turtle Clan. Children: 2. Lapenahile, Chief of the Cape Girardeau Delaware, who died at James Fork, Missouri in 1826 2. Tawhelalen (son) 2. Tahleeockwe/Captain Jack or James Ketchum, Chief of the Turtle Clan, then Principal Chief 2. Daughter killed by the Miami Indians about 1829-1821. Children: 2. Ahkelenqua /Nancy Ketchum, born 1786, killed 1825 by Miami Indians Spouse Ninundekumen (Owl). a Miami Indian 3. Ahpamundaqua/Nancy, born 1815, died 1871 Spouse Isaac Journeycake 3. Lossetonauqua, born 1811, died 1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loatiaaqua, born 1823, married James Ketchum 3. Aupheehelaqua 2. Echelangonaoqua Spouse (2) Mehshaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware (Provided by Scott Butterfield). [To be continued when the data becomes available. Editor]
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Twehullahlah Descendancy Chart from Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps of my Ancestors, pp. 174a 177-179 [This chart duplicates some of the other data presented above. It will be sorted out later. Editor]
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Relative to the above is a Ketchum origin story that may have come from Rev. L. B. Statler's Journal, perhaps. p. 70. It is disjointed and rather hard to follow, but should probably be kept in kind for anyone doing Ketchum Family research:
He tells of the capture of a fort located where Louisville, Kentruckyy now stands and the killing of all the inmates except a mother and a little girl who were led away in captivity. The mother not being strong enough to travel as fast as the march, was tomahawked but
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they carried the little girl with them to their distant home in the North. She was reared among the Indians, but never forgot her home. She married an Indian by whom she had one daughter. In the course of time the daughter grew up and married a Delaware Indian. She raised up quite a family of sons, who were almost like white men, their complexions were so fair. They were men of intelligence, and spoke English very readily. When the Missionaries came among the Delawares they found this white woman , then a venerable woman of seventy years, living in a comfortable hewed log house like any other civilized woman. She was the first to welcome the Missionaries when they came. She could converse in Indian, French and English and made a good interpreter. She and her daughter and grandchildren were the first to come and united with the Church, and thus formed a little nucleus. The grandsons subsequently became very ready interpreters and two of the m afterwards became preachers of the gospel. The family name of the grandsons was Ketchum. The two preachers were Charles and James Ketchum. The person submitting this item, said that there must be more to this is the Statler Journal as Edith Ketchum of California wrote her that the kidnapped white child married an Indian and had one daughter and when he (the Indian) died then she married a French trader who also died and then she moved back with the tribe with her little girl and lived until she died. She was known only as "Aunt Barbara. by the missionaries. [I am trying to find the name of the person who submitted the article, If anyone knows of the whereabouts of the Statler Journal, I would be pleased to know, Editor]
Readers please note that submitters of family data are responsible for the accuracy of the data and obtaining the permission of living persons.
There are are some problems in above items. but they are included here for the benefit of Ketchum Family researchers in having all that has been printed about the family. As usual. use the above and other data with caution.
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George Ketchum Descendancy Chart from The History of Craig County, pp. 185-186:
1. George Ketchum, born 1787, married 1. Lucy, married 2. Sara H.
George Ketchum, Lenape name Kakeewha. His mother was Nancy, family name not known.
His names supposedly translates into "Could Run and Catch Deer" or Catchum=Ketchum, hence the family English name of Ketchum. Twehullahlah was brave of the Delaware tribe, not a chief. He married first Ahkechelungunaqua, a sister of Memshaquaowha (Captain Patterson). (According to Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps..., p. 177, she was of the Turtle Clan).
Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2
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190. Possibly (Delaware) Twehulalla (George) Ketchum "English: Could Run and Catch a Deer, i.e., Catch Them" was born in possibly Pennsylvania. He married Ahkechelungunaqua. 191. (Delaware) Ahkechelungunaqua died about 1805.
TWEHULLAHLAH (Captain George Ketchum)
KETCHUM, George - In an interview by Field Worker J. R. Carselowy, on 9 June 1937, at Vinita, Oklahoma, Sol C. Ketchum, son of George Ketchum, said of his grandfather, George Ketchum. "He also lived on the Delaware Reservation in Pennsylvania, but died among the Delawares on the Caney River near Bartlesville, at the age of 100 years." The following item on the Ketchum Family was taken from The History of Craig County: Its People and Places, Vol. I, pp. 439-440. The publishing data are not known at this time. The article is entitled "Ketchum Family," F353:
George Ketchum was born in 1787. About 1807 he married a woman by the name of Lucy (last name unknown). Lucy and George Ketchum were the parents of five children: Lewis, born 1808, died 1904; Elizabeth, born 1810, died 1866; Charles, born 1811, died 1860; Mary, born 1814, died 1872; Jacob, born 1816, died 1866. After Lucy Ketchum's death, Gorge married a woman named Sarah A. To this union three children were born: James Ketchum, born 1818, died 1890; William Riley Ketchum, born 1827, died 1880; and David B., born 1831. The Ketchums were full blood Delaware Indians, and we know that James, the sixth child of George Ketchum was born in Indiana, but when Ketchum
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led the Delaware tribesmen to Indian Territory [present Oklahoma], they came from Kansas. After coming to Indian Territory, as the Ketchum children grew up and married they scattered, and settled in various parts of the Cherokee Nation.
KETCHUM, Nancy - The Lenape name of Nancy Ketchum was Lenape name Aupamundaqua or Aquamdegaockwe. We are using the Ketchum family name of her mother because we are not yet certain who her father is. Nancy Ketchum was married to Isaac Journeycake. To add to the confusion, her mother also went by the name of Nancy Ketchum. The biography of the latter will be added. We are currently working on verifying who her parents were. One family record shows them as William Long and Katy Ketchum. We had previously thought that her mother was Echelangonaockwe and her father Twehullahlah (Chief George Ketchum of Pennsylvania) . It is possible that these two women, both named Nancy Ketchum, were the sisters of Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilaquenaho. Researcher: Vickie Wilkins
MEKINGEES/MEKINGES/MEKINGIS Elizabeth possibly KETCHUM--[Data are being entered and edited. This is a difficult entry. I would appreciate any of your comments or ideas. Editor swifthahn@aol.com ]
Revised 12 November 2002. Mekinges and its other spellings, is a variation of the Lenape word Macunchis, meaning "Last Born," that is, "the Youngest". Her English name is Elizabeth (possibly Ketchum). She was born after 1780. Some have said that Mekinges may have been the daughter of Chief William Anderson, but there is evidence to the contrary and nothing to support the Anderson connection. (See end notes 1 and 2 for a further discussion of her ancestry). In any event, she grew up in Chief Anderson's home on the White River in Indiana on the lands reserved to the Delaware.1 Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2 Mary Smith Witcher, the compiler of Cherokee-Delaware Heritage, lists Makengiss as the eighth child of "Delaware George." Witcher, p. 145). She says, "Various names in this list were given to me by George Bullette, Jr. [...Henry Armstrong...and Sol C. Ketchum." She also says that Mekinges is a corruption of Muchenchase.3 Regarding Lenape family relationships and oral history, Ruby Cranor said "All children born to one mother are brothers and sisters regardless of who their father was." And, speaking of Sarah Finney's affidavit, said that Sarah Finney , "…was an old lady at the time she gave these affidavits, so perhaps she had forgotten some of her history."4
Mekingees was the common-law wife, in the Delaware custom, of William Conner (whom see in Biographies). He and his brother John moved to Indiana in 1800. They were the sons of Richard Conner and his wife Margaret Boyer, a white woman who was raised by the Shawnee.5 Mekinges and William Conner lived in Chief Anderson's town from 1802 until 1812, then moved south of there, to a site four miles south of present Noblesville, on the east side of the White River.6 Thompson states also states on page 43, using the same footnotes cited above above, "...the town of Chief Anderson, whose daughter, Mekinges, he married at at unrecorded time. (See 7 and 8 for a discussion of Mekinges's family relationship) William Conner built and operated a trading post there on the east side of the White River. [I will try to include a map of the area in the future.-Editor.] Because of his service to the United States Government, he was secretly promised title to the 640 acres occupied by him and his family. He eventually received title to the land.9
1. TWEEHULLAHLA Descendancy Chart (From Helen York Rose, I Walked in the
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Footsteps of My Ancestors, p 174a) Spouse 1: Achechelungunaqua of the Turtle Clan of the Delaware, a sister of Captain Patterson 2. Lepinihe 2. Tawhelalan 2. Tahleeockwe (Captain Jack/James Ketchum) 2. Ahkeelenqua (Nancy Ketchum), married Owl, a Miami 2. Echelongonaoqua 2. Wallaquanenaho, married the white trader, William Marshall Spouse 2: Mashaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware, the mother of Captain George Ketchum/Kakeewha * * * TWEHULLAHLAH Descendancy Chart: (George Ketchum) [This chart is being revised. See the entry for Twehullahla in the Biographies. Editor] 1. Twehullahlah, birth data not known. Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, birth data not known, died about 1805. Children: 2. Paopaneach (Ketchum), born ca.1771, died ca.1826 Spouse unknown 2. Tawhelalend (Ketchum), born ca.1780, died ca.1857 Spouse unknown 2. Queshatowha (Ketchum) Spouse unknown 2. Echelangonaockwe (Ketchum), born ca,1782, died ca.1825 Spouse (1) unknown. Child: 3. Aquamdegaockwe (Nancy) Spouse not known. Children: 4. Wilaquenaho, born ca.1797, died 30 October 1875, buried Gilstrap Cemetery #2, Bartlesville OK Spouse: William Marshall 4. Aukeelenqua Spouse not known. 4. Tahleockwe [or was she the daughter of Ninundekumen just below?] Spouse (2) Ninundekumen. Children: 3. Aupamundaqua, born ca.1815, died ca.1871. Spouse (1) unknown. Children: 4. Tahleockwe, born Spring of 1830, South of White Church, Kansas, died 15 January 1911, married about 1854 Spouse Rezin Wilcoxen, born 18 March 1828, died ca.1890 5. Lucinda Wilcoxen, born ca.1854 5. Emmit Wilcoxen, born ca.1865
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5. Oscar Wilcoxen 5. Leanora Wilcoxen , born 23 February 1868, died 22 December 1884 Spouse (2) Isaac Journeycake. Children: 4. Sally O. Journeycake, born ca.1840, died ca.1906 4. Robert Jordan Euphrates Journeycake, born ca.1843, died ca.1875 4. Matilda Journeycake, born ca.1846 4. Polly Journeycake, born ca.1848 4. Mary E. Journeycake, born ca.1850 4. Angeline Journeycake, born ca.1852, died about 1861 4. Joseph Journeycake, born ca.1854, died about 1897 4. Isaac N. Journeycake, Jr., born ca.1856, died ca.1916 4. Emma Journeycake, born ca.1856 3. Lusitahoqua , born ca.1817, died ca.1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loowataxwe, born ca.1823 Spouse Kockkockquas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844, buried in the Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 January 1853, died 16 April 1883, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 August 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, born 5 October 1862, died February 1869, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Amanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 December 1872 3. Aupheeheiliqua, born about 1823, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma Spouse Shingomezia 4. Lakepeshequa [Sarah "Sally Owl], born 12 Nov 1833, died December 1910. See her Descendancy Chart on this page. Spouse William Honeywell, married 1851/1852, died 1880 5. Ann Elizabeth Honeywell, born 25 December 1852, died 3 April 1853 5. Masakah, born 16 August 1854, died 7 Nov. 1892 5. Ohpemukwa, born 13 December 1857, died 1923 5. Pungishshenqua, born 28 June 1861, died 1942 5. Wapaseepamore, born 30 July 1863, died 18 August 1911 5. Enoch Honeywell, born 10 December 1866 5. Keshecoqua, born 12 March 1868, died 1918
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5. Frank Honeywell, born 13 Nov. 1872, died 13 April 1873 Spouse (2) Unknown. Children with Twehullahlah: 2. Kakeewha, born about 1787, died ca.1887 Spouse Nancy Unknown 3. Lewis Ketchum, born 1808, died 28 March 1904, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig Co., OK Spouse (1) Lucy French, married ca.1837 4. Samuel Ketchum, died 1870 4. John Ketchum, born 1843, died 1892 4. Charles W. Ketchum, born 1845, died 1868 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Zeigler, born 1834, died 1913 4. Mary Louise Ketchum, born ca.1846/1847, died 1 April 1928 4. Jane O. Ketchum, born ca.1849/1850, died 8 September 1881 Spouse Robert O'Donnel, born 1830, died 1909 5. Mary Ellen O'Donnel Spouse Busey 4. Barbara Ketchum, born ca.1850/1852, died 1894 4. Simon W. Ketchum, born 27 Feb. 1855, died 2 March 1894 4. Silas Ketchum, born 12 Jan. 1857, died 2 December 1901 4. Lucinda Ketchum, born about 1858, died 3 August 1876 4. Solomon C. Ketchum, born 27 January 1861, died 1945 4. Hatty Ann Ketchum, born 1868, died 1869 3. Charles Ketchum, born Dec. 1811, died 20 July 1860 Spouse unknown 4. Eliza Ketchum 3. Kockkockwas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 Spouse (1) Loowataxque born ca.1823, daughter of Ninundekumen and Echelangonaockwe 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 Jan. 1852, died 16 April 1883 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 Aug. 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, 5 Oct. 1862, died February 1859 4. Armanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 Dec. 1872 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Swannock-Connor 4. James Ketchum, Jr., born 3 December 1877, died 10 June 1886, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Jane Anna Ketchum, born ca.1870, died ca.1947
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4. Lucinda Ketchum, born ca.1872, died ca.1947 3. George Ketchum ( Provided by Vickie Wilkins based on data from various public sources.) ***
Another Descendancy Chart of Twelhullalah (Source?) 1. Twehullahlah Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, a Delaware woman of the Turtle Clan. Children: 2. Lapenahile, Chief of the Cape Girardeau Delaware, who died at James Fork, Missouri in 1826 2. Tawhelalen (son) 2. Tahleeockwe/Captain Jack or James Ketchum, Chief of the Turtle Clan, then Principal Chief 2. Daughter killed by the Miami Indians about 1829-1821. Children: 2. Ahkelenqua /Nancy Ketchum, born 1786, killed 1825 by Miami Indians Spouse Ninundekumen (Owl). a Miami Indian 3. Ahpamundaqua/Nancy, born 1815, died 1871 Spouse Isaac Journeycake 3. Lossetonauqua, born 1811, died 1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loatiaaqua, born 1823, married James Ketchum 3. Aupheehelaqua 2. Echelangonaoqua Spouse (2) Mehshaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware (Provided by Scott Butterfield). [To be continued when the data becomes available. Editor]
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Twehullahlah Descendancy Chart from Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps of my Ancestors, pp. 174a 177-179 [This chart duplicates some of the other data presented above. It will be sorted out later. Editor]
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Relative to the above is a Ketchum origin story that may have come from Rev. L. B. Statler's Journal, perhaps. p. 70. It is disjointed and rather hard to follow, but should probably be kept in kind for anyone doing Ketchum Family research:
He tells of the capture of a fort located where Louisville, Kentruckyy now stands and the killing of all the inmates except a mother and a little girl who were led away in captivity. The mother not being strong enough to travel as fast as the march, was tomahawked but
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they carried the little girl with them to their distant home in the North. She was reared among the Indians, but never forgot her home. She married an Indian by whom she had one daughter. In the course of time the daughter grew up and married a Delaware Indian. She raised up quite a family of sons, who were almost like white men, their complexions were so fair. They were men of intelligence, and spoke English very readily. When the Missionaries came among the Delawares they found this white woman , then a venerable woman of seventy years, living in a comfortable hewed log house like any other civilized woman. She was the first to welcome the Missionaries when they came. She could converse in Indian, French and English and made a good interpreter. She and her daughter and grandchildren were the first to come and united with the Church, and thus formed a little nucleus. The grandsons subsequently became very ready interpreters and two of the m afterwards became preachers of the gospel. The family name of the grandsons was Ketchum. The two preachers were Charles and James Ketchum. The person submitting this item, said that there must be more to this is the Statler Journal as Edith Ketchum of California wrote her that the kidnapped white child married an Indian and had one daughter and when he (the Indian) died then she married a French trader who also died and then she moved back with the tribe with her little girl and lived until she died. She was known only as "Aunt Barbara. by the missionaries. [I am trying to find the name of the person who submitted the article, If anyone knows of the whereabouts of the Statler Journal, I would be pleased to know, Editor]
Readers please note that submitters of family data are responsible for the accuracy of the data and obtaining the permission of living persons.
There are are some problems in above items. but they are included here for the benefit of Ketchum Family researchers in having all that has been printed about the family. As usual. use the above and other data with caution.
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George Ketchum Descendancy Chart from The History of Craig County, pp. 185-186:
1. George Ketchum, born 1787, married 1. Lucy, married 2. Sara H.
George Ketchum, Lenape name Kakeewha. His mother was Nancy, family name not known.
His names supposedly translates into "Could Run and Catch Deer" or Catchum=Ketchum, hence the family English name of Ketchum. Twehullahlah was brave of the Delaware tribe, not a chief. He married first Ahkechelungunaqua, a sister of Memshaquaowha (Captain Patterson). (According to Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps..., p. 177, she was of the Turtle Clan).
Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2
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190. Possibly (Delaware) Twehulalla (George) Ketchum "English: Could Run and Catch a Deer, i.e., Catch Them" was born in possibly Pennsylvania. He married Ahkechelungunaqua. 191. (Delaware) Ahkechelungunaqua died about 1805.
TWEHULLAHLAH (Captain George Ketchum)
KETCHUM, George - In an interview by Field Worker J. R. Carselowy, on 9 June 1937, at Vinita, Oklahoma, Sol C. Ketchum, son of George Ketchum, said of his grandfather, George Ketchum. "He also lived on the Delaware Reservation in Pennsylvania, but died among the Delawares on the Caney River near Bartlesville, at the age of 100 years." The following item on the Ketchum Family was taken from The History of Craig County: Its People and Places, Vol. I, pp. 439-440. The publishing data are not known at this time. The article is entitled "Ketchum Family," F353:
George Ketchum was born in 1787. About 1807 he married a woman by the name of Lucy (last name unknown). Lucy and George Ketchum were the parents of five children: Lewis, born 1808, died 1904; Elizabeth, born 1810, died 1866; Charles, born 1811, died 1860; Mary, born 1814, died 1872; Jacob, born 1816, died 1866. After Lucy Ketchum's death, Gorge married a woman named Sarah A. To this union three children were born: James Ketchum, born 1818, died 1890; William Riley Ketchum, born 1827, died 1880; and David B., born 1831. The Ketchums were full blood Delaware Indians, and we know that James, the sixth child of George Ketchum was born in Indiana, but when Ketchum
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led the Delaware tribesmen to Indian Territory [present Oklahoma], they came from Kansas. After coming to Indian Territory, as the Ketchum children grew up and married they scattered, and settled in various parts of the Cherokee Nation.
KETCHUM, Nancy - The Lenape name of Nancy Ketchum was Lenape name Aupamundaqua or Aquamdegaockwe. We are using the Ketchum family name of her mother because we are not yet certain who her father is. Nancy Ketchum was married to Isaac Journeycake. To add to the confusion, her mother also went by the name of Nancy Ketchum. The biography of the latter will be added. We are currently working on verifying who her parents were. One family record shows them as William Long and Katy Ketchum. We had previously thought that her mother was Echelangonaockwe and her father Twehullahlah (Chief George Ketchum of Pennsylvania) . It is possible that these two women, both named Nancy Ketchum, were the sisters of Elizabeth (Betsy) Wilaquenaho. Researcher: Vickie Wilkins
MEKINGEES/MEKINGES/MEKINGIS Elizabeth possibly KETCHUM--[Data are being entered and edited. This is a difficult entry. I would appreciate any of your comments or ideas. Editor swifthahn@aol.com ]
Revised 12 November 2002. Mekinges and its other spellings, is a variation of the Lenape word Macunchis, meaning "Last Born," that is, "the Youngest". Her English name is Elizabeth (possibly Ketchum). She was born after 1780. Some have said that Mekinges may have been the daughter of Chief William Anderson, but there is evidence to the contrary and nothing to support the Anderson connection. (See end notes 1 and 2 for a further discussion of her ancestry). In any event, she grew up in Chief Anderson's home on the White River in Indiana on the lands reserved to the Delaware.1 Mekinges's mother was Ahkechelungunaqua. Her mother is said to have been the sister of Mehshayquowha (Captain Patterson) and the widow of Twehullalla or Tweehulala (George Ketchum). William Anderson married second Ahkechelungunaqua who brought with her two sons, Lapahnihe (Big Bear) Ketchum and Queshatowha (John Ketchum), and a daughter, Aukeelenqua ( Nancy Ketchum).2 Mary Smith Witcher, the compiler of Cherokee-Delaware Heritage, lists Makengiss as the eighth child of "Delaware George." Witcher, p. 145). She says, "Various names in this list were given to me by George Bullette, Jr. [...Henry Armstrong...and Sol C. Ketchum." She also says that Mekinges is a corruption of Muchenchase.3 Regarding Lenape family relationships and oral history, Ruby Cranor said "All children born to one mother are brothers and sisters regardless of who their father was." And, speaking of Sarah Finney's affidavit, said that Sarah Finney , "…was an old lady at the time she gave these affidavits, so perhaps she had forgotten some of her history."4
Mekingees was the common-law wife, in the Delaware custom, of William Conner (whom see in Biographies). He and his brother John moved to Indiana in 1800. They were the sons of Richard Conner and his wife Margaret Boyer, a white woman who was raised by the Shawnee.5 Mekinges and William Conner lived in Chief Anderson's town from 1802 until 1812, then moved south of there, to a site four miles south of present Noblesville, on the east side of the White River.6 Thompson states also states on page 43, using the same footnotes cited above above, "...the town of Chief Anderson, whose daughter, Mekinges, he married at at unrecorded time. (See 7 and 8 for a discussion of Mekinges's family relationship) William Conner built and operated a trading post there on the east side of the White River. [I will try to include a map of the area in the future.-Editor.] Because of his service to the United States Government, he was secretly promised title to the 640 acres occupied by him and his family. He eventually received title to the land.9
1. TWEEHULLAHLA Descendancy Chart (From Helen York Rose, I Walked in the
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Footsteps of My Ancestors, p 174a) Spouse 1: Achechelungunaqua of the Turtle Clan of the Delaware, a sister of Captain Patterson 2. Lepinihe 2. Tawhelalan 2. Tahleeockwe (Captain Jack/James Ketchum) 2. Ahkeelenqua (Nancy Ketchum), married Owl, a Miami 2. Echelongonaoqua 2. Wallaquanenaho, married the white trader, William Marshall Spouse 2: Mashaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware, the mother of Captain George Ketchum/Kakeewha * * * TWEHULLAHLAH Descendancy Chart: (George Ketchum) [This chart is being revised. See the entry for Twehullahla in the Biographies. Editor] 1. Twehullahlah, birth data not known. Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, birth data not known, died about 1805. Children: 2. Paopaneach (Ketchum), born ca.1771, died ca.1826 Spouse unknown 2. Tawhelalend (Ketchum), born ca.1780, died ca.1857 Spouse unknown 2. Queshatowha (Ketchum) Spouse unknown 2. Echelangonaockwe (Ketchum), born ca,1782, died ca.1825 Spouse (1) unknown. Child: 3. Aquamdegaockwe (Nancy) Spouse not known. Children: 4. Wilaquenaho, born ca.1797, died 30 October 1875, buried Gilstrap Cemetery #2, Bartlesville OK Spouse: William Marshall 4. Aukeelenqua Spouse not known. 4. Tahleockwe [or was she the daughter of Ninundekumen just below?] Spouse (2) Ninundekumen. Children: 3. Aupamundaqua, born ca.1815, died ca.1871. Spouse (1) unknown. Children: 4. Tahleockwe, born Spring of 1830, South of White Church, Kansas, died 15 January 1911, married about 1854 Spouse Rezin Wilcoxen, born 18 March 1828, died ca.1890 5. Lucinda Wilcoxen, born ca.1854 5. Emmit Wilcoxen, born ca.1865
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5. Oscar Wilcoxen 5. Leanora Wilcoxen , born 23 February 1868, died 22 December 1884 Spouse (2) Isaac Journeycake. Children: 4. Sally O. Journeycake, born ca.1840, died ca.1906 4. Robert Jordan Euphrates Journeycake, born ca.1843, died ca.1875 4. Matilda Journeycake, born ca.1846 4. Polly Journeycake, born ca.1848 4. Mary E. Journeycake, born ca.1850 4. Angeline Journeycake, born ca.1852, died about 1861 4. Joseph Journeycake, born ca.1854, died about 1897 4. Isaac N. Journeycake, Jr., born ca.1856, died ca.1916 4. Emma Journeycake, born ca.1856 3. Lusitahoqua , born ca.1817, died ca.1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loowataxwe, born ca.1823 Spouse Kockkockquas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844, buried in the Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 January 1853, died 16 April 1883, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 August 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, born 5 October 1862, died February 1869, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Amanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 December 1872 3. Aupheeheiliqua, born about 1823, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma Spouse Shingomezia 4. Lakepeshequa [Sarah "Sally Owl], born 12 Nov 1833, died December 1910. See her Descendancy Chart on this page. Spouse William Honeywell, married 1851/1852, died 1880 5. Ann Elizabeth Honeywell, born 25 December 1852, died 3 April 1853 5. Masakah, born 16 August 1854, died 7 Nov. 1892 5. Ohpemukwa, born 13 December 1857, died 1923 5. Pungishshenqua, born 28 June 1861, died 1942 5. Wapaseepamore, born 30 July 1863, died 18 August 1911 5. Enoch Honeywell, born 10 December 1866 5. Keshecoqua, born 12 March 1868, died 1918
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5. Frank Honeywell, born 13 Nov. 1872, died 13 April 1873 Spouse (2) Unknown. Children with Twehullahlah: 2. Kakeewha, born about 1787, died ca.1887 Spouse Nancy Unknown 3. Lewis Ketchum, born 1808, died 28 March 1904, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig Co., OK Spouse (1) Lucy French, married ca.1837 4. Samuel Ketchum, died 1870 4. John Ketchum, born 1843, died 1892 4. Charles W. Ketchum, born 1845, died 1868 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Zeigler, born 1834, died 1913 4. Mary Louise Ketchum, born ca.1846/1847, died 1 April 1928 4. Jane O. Ketchum, born ca.1849/1850, died 8 September 1881 Spouse Robert O'Donnel, born 1830, died 1909 5. Mary Ellen O'Donnel Spouse Busey 4. Barbara Ketchum, born ca.1850/1852, died 1894 4. Simon W. Ketchum, born 27 Feb. 1855, died 2 March 1894 4. Silas Ketchum, born 12 Jan. 1857, died 2 December 1901 4. Lucinda Ketchum, born about 1858, died 3 August 1876 4. Solomon C. Ketchum, born 27 January 1861, died 1945 4. Hatty Ann Ketchum, born 1868, died 1869 3. Charles Ketchum, born Dec. 1811, died 20 July 1860 Spouse unknown 4. Eliza Ketchum 3. Kockkockwas, born ca.1818, died 22 December 1880 Spouse (1) Loowataxque born ca.1823, daughter of Ninundekumen and Echelangonaockwe 4. Nancy Ketchum, born ca.1839 4. Mary E. Ketchum, born 2 December 1844 4. Katherine Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Charles Ketchum, born ca.1845 4. Abraham W. Ketchum, born ca.1846 4. Hester Ann Ketchum, born ca.1849 4. Virginia A. Ketchum, born 15 Jan. 1852, died 16 April 1883 4. Thomas Ketchum, born 16 Aug. 1856, died 6 June 1928 4. Casander Ketchum, 5 Oct. 1862, died February 1859 4. Armanda Ketchum, born 12 April 1858, died 21 Dec. 1872 Spouse (2) Elizabeth Swannock-Connor 4. James Ketchum, Jr., born 3 December 1877, died 10 June 1886, buried Ketchum Cemetery, Craig County, Oklahoma 4. Jane Anna Ketchum, born ca.1870, died ca.1947
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4. Lucinda Ketchum, born ca.1872, died ca.1947 3. George Ketchum ( Provided by Vickie Wilkins based on data from various public sources.) ***
Another Descendancy Chart of Twelhullalah (Source?) 1. Twehullahlah Spouse (1) Ahkechelungunaqua, a Delaware woman of the Turtle Clan. Children: 2. Lapenahile, Chief of the Cape Girardeau Delaware, who died at James Fork, Missouri in 1826 2. Tawhelalen (son) 2. Tahleeockwe/Captain Jack or James Ketchum, Chief of the Turtle Clan, then Principal Chief 2. Daughter killed by the Miami Indians about 1829-1821. Children: 2. Ahkelenqua /Nancy Ketchum, born 1786, killed 1825 by Miami Indians Spouse Ninundekumen (Owl). a Miami Indian 3. Ahpamundaqua/Nancy, born 1815, died 1871 Spouse Isaac Journeycake 3. Lossetonauqua, born 1811, died 1881 Spouse William Riley Ketchum 3. Loatiaaqua, born 1823, married James Ketchum 3. Aupheehelaqua 2. Echelangonaoqua Spouse (2) Mehshaquowha, a Sandusky Delaware (Provided by Scott Butterfield). [To be continued when the data becomes available. Editor]
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Twehullahlah Descendancy Chart from Helen York Rose, I Walked in the Footsteps of my Ancestors, pp. 174a 177-179 [This chart duplicates some of the other data presented above. It will be sorted out later. Editor]
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Relative to the above is a Ketchum origin story that may have come from Rev. L. B. Statler's Journal, perhaps. p. 70. It is disjointed and rather hard to follow, but should probably be kept in kind for anyone doing Ketchum Family research:
He tells of the capture of a fort located where Louisville, Kentruckyy now stands and the killing of all the inmates except a mother and a little girl who were led away in captivity. The mother not being strong enough to travel as fast as the march, was tomahawked but
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they carried the little girl with them to their distant home in the North. She was reared among the Indians, but never forgot her home. She married an Indian by whom she had one daughter. In the course of time the daughter grew up and married a Delaware Indian. She raised up quite a family of sons, who were almost like white men, their complexions were so fair. They were men of intelligence, and spoke English very readily. When the Missionaries came among the Delawares they found this white woman , then a venerable woman of seventy years, living in a comfortable hewed log house like any other civilized woman. She was the first to welcome the Missionaries when they came. She could converse in Indian, French and English and made a good interpreter. She and her daughter and grandchildren were the first to come and united with the Church, and thus formed a little nucleus. The grandsons subsequently became very ready interpreters and two of the m afterwards became preachers of the gospel. The family name of the grandsons was Ketchum. The two preachers were Charles and James Ketchum. The person submitting this item, said that there must be more to this is the Statler Journal as Edith Ketchum of California wrote her that the kidnapped white child married an Indian and had one daughter and when he (the Indian) died then she married a French trader who also died and then she moved back with the tribe with her little girl and lived until she died. She was known only as "Aunt Barbara. by the missionaries. [I am trying to find the name of the person who submitted the article, If anyone knows of the whereabouts of the Statler Journal, I would be pleased to know, Editor]
Readers please note that submitters of family data are responsible for the accuracy of the data and obtaining the permission of living persons.
There are are some problems in above items. but they are included here for the benefit of Ketchum Family researchers in having all that has been printed about the family. As usual. use the above and other data with caution.
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| Birth | 1755 | Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States | |||
| Marriage | Maybe 1771 | Ahkechlungunaqua Nyeswanan Killbuck | |||
| Death | 14 Jul 1812 | Valley City, Guernsey, Ohio, United States |  | ||
| Death | 1855 | Northwest Terretory (Now Miami Valley Ohio) | |||
| Marriage | Meshaquowha "White Eyes" Coquehagechton | ||||
| Alt name | Chief George Of Pennsylvania | ||||
| Alt name | Twehullahlah "Chief George Ketchum Of Pennsylvania" Ketchum | ||||
| Alt name | Twe-Hul-Lah-Lah | ||||
| Burial | New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Ahkechlungunaqua Nyeswanan Killbuck (1760 - 1831) |
| Child | Paopaneach Ketchum (1771 - 1826) |
| Child | Queshatowha "John" Ketchum (1780 - ) |
| Child | Echelangonaockwe "Nancy" (1782 - 1825) |
| Child | Betsy Echelongonaowellaqua Ketchum (1796 - 1875) |
| Spouse | Meshaquowha "White Eyes" Coquehagechton (1790 - 1817) |
| Child | Ah-Ke-Che-Lung-Un-Aqua NLN (1760 - 1805) |
| Father | Ketchum (1700 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Find-A-Grave - George Ketchum.
2. Find-A-Grave - George Ketchum.
3. Find-A-Grave - George Ketchum.