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   Historic Sullivan: A History of Sullivan County, Tennessee
   by Oliver Taylor, Pub. 1909

 [57-58]
 
                                NANCY WARD
                               A BIOGRAPHY
                           
       "That famous Indian woman" was Col. WILLIAM CAMPBELL'S description
    of NANCY WARD, whose acts of friendly mediation, and humane treatment
    of captives, endeared her to the whites in such a way that she is
    known as Tennessee's Pocahontas.
       Her father was a British officer named WARD and her mother a sister
    of ATA-KULLAKULLA, leading chief of the Cherokees during their most
    troublesome times.  The date of her birth is unknown.
       She resided at Echota, the capital of the Cherokee nation, where
    she was regarded as chief woman of the tribe, having such titles as
    "Beloved Woman" and "Pretty Woman."  She decided the fate of captives.
    One of her most benevolent acts was to save the life of Mrs. BEAN after
    she had been condemned and tied to the stake, at the time the young
    boy, MOORE, was burned.
       In many ways she showed her friendship for the whites, especially
    at the time of the contemplated raids upon the Holston and Watauga 
    forts, in 1776.  On the occasion of another Cherokee uprising in 1780
    she shielded a number of traders and helped them to escape.
       It was out of consideration for her kind offices that the Indians
    did not suffer worse treatment when the whites invaded their nation.
    Echota was not burned on her account, and when her relatives once
    fell into the hands of an attacking force they were spared out of
    consideration for her.
       As chief woman of the tribe she was permitted to appear and speak
    in their solemn councils, and at those meetings her word was supreme.
       JAMES ROBERTSON once visited her on an errand of peace and after-
    wards described her as "queenly and commanding," and said that her
    "house was furnished in accordance with her high dignity."
       NANCY WARD exerted her influence for the higher civilization and
    general betterment of her race and her kind acts were to influence
    her own people, to discourage savage warfare as much as they were
    done out of sympathy for the whites.
       In a domestic way, too, she was progressive, having introduced
    cows among the Arkansas Cherokees and her efforts along all lines
    of improvement and elevation of the race were commendable.
       The date of her death is unknown.
       
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 NOTE:  NANCY WARD (Nanye'hi) spent her final years operating an inn
        near Benton, Tennessee, at Womankiller Ford.  She passed away
        there in 1822 or '24 and was buried on a nearby small hill.
        In 1924 her gravesite was marked by the Nancy Ward Chapter of
        the Daughters of the American Revolution and, today, is preserved
        by the State of Tennessee.
        
        James Abraham Walker carved a statue of NANCY WARD which stood
        in a cemetery in Grainger County, TN for about 70 years until
        it was shamefully stolen in the early 1980s.
 

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