| 2. | i. | JOHN WESLEY2 RUNYAN, b. 1778, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia; d. November 23, 1851, Hamilton County, Tennessee. | |
| 3. | ii. | AARON ALEXANDER RUNYAN, b. 1786, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia; d. June 06, 1869, Sevier Co., T.N.. | |
| iii. | TAVENOR MARCUS RUNYAN1, b. 17881; d. 1802, Sevier Co., T.N.1. |
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Notes for TAVENOR MARCUS RUNYAN: Marie Runyan Wright in her book "Up The Runyon / Runion Runyan Tree" 1993 on page 68 says that "Records show, also, that while living in Sevier County, Tennessee, one of Barefoot and Margaret's sons, Tavenor Runyan, was murdered near his home, in 1802, by a band of Indians." She included as documentation a portion of a letter written by Archibald Roane concerning the incident. Ralph Jenkins ( rjenkin2@vm.temple.edu ) found a detailed account of the murder of Sammy Goose by Isaac Barefoot Runyan, and the subsequent revenge murder of Tavenor Runyan, as follows: William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1986, pp. 50-51. On July 2 [1802], a Cherokee named The Goose (or Sammy Goose) was killed in Tennessee by Barefoot Runion, a white man. Runion said the killing was an accident, and the chiefs in council accepted his story. To avoid trouble, another council held in August wrote off the death and forbade Gooses clan relations to take revenge. Nevertheless, Ca-tah-coo-kee (or Dirt Bottle), his uncle, believed that Gooses spirit required revenge. With four or five other kinsmen, Ca-tah-koo-kee went to Sevier County, where Runion lived, and on September 8 killed Runion's son Travenor with a tomahawk. A woman of the family was also killed in the fray. The whites in the vicinity were much alarmed, [Return Jonathan] Meigs reported, not knowing who else might be caught in this feud. Some of them wished to gather a posse and go after Ca-tah-coo-kee and his companions. One of them wrote to Meigs that if the United States is Bound to keep up the Cherokee Nation in an Annual Salary [annuity], those who were the Avowed Enemies of the United States in their struggle for Independence, and Good Citizens who have Suffered in the defence of their Right and their Country, Must Now Submit to the Laws of that Nation, I mean the Cherokee Nation, Executed on them [blood revenge] with Impunity, then matters had come to a dangerous pass. (34) When Ca-tah-koo-kee returned home, the council, under prodding from Meigs, agreed to arrest him and turn him over to the white authorities in Tennessee. However, fearing that a lynch mob might hang him, the council insisted that he be placed in the United States army garrison jail in Hiwassee until his trial. When the trial took place, Ca-tah-coo-kee explained his position in terms of the tradition of clan retaliation, but the court took no cognizance of it, and he was hanged. (36) Return J. Meigs to Henry Dearborn, october 5, 1802, M-208. Meigs reported that the white man had killed the Indian on July 2 in Tennessee and the chiefs had tried to hold back his relatives from clan revenge, but when no legal action was taken against the murderer by September 8, a small party of Indians watched the House of the Whiteman who had killed the Indian, with a view to kill him, but not finding him. They killed his son, a young man about sixteen years old. It has been with difficulty the white people in that quarter were restrained from going against the Indians. Gov. Roane has exerted himself to keep peace. Meigs said he would ask the Council to turn over the murderer. |
| 4. | iv. | WARE RUNYAN, b. 1791, Jefferson Co., TN (later Sevier Co., TN); d. October 23, 1837, Talladega Co., Al. | |
| 5. | v. | ISAAC RUNYAN, b. March 17, 1793, Jefferson Co., T.N.; d. August 13, 1873, Clark Co., AR. | |
| 6. | vi. | LOAMI WESLEY RUNYAN, b. 1802, Sevier Co., T.N.. |
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