Person:Catherine Kingfisher (11)

Kati was the daughter of the famous Cherokee Nancy Ward and her first husband, Kingfisher. Nancy was born about 1738 and her marriage was c. 1751. Kingfisher was killed in battle in 1755 and Kati had a younger brother, Fivekiller, so her birthdate must be in 1752 or 53. Dr. Emmet Starr shows her as "Catherine" but there are no records showing that name, they all say 'Kati,' 'Katie,' or 'Katy'. She had no last name at birth as the Cherokee did not have family names but she was a member of the Wolf clan. Kati had three husbands, John Walker, Samuel Candy, and Ellis Harlan, and 10 children. In 1817 Kati, her mother, and her daughter Jenny Walker McIntosh and ten other women signed a petition opposing yet another land cession. Kati died about 1830. According to Hampton, "She is known to have been alive in 1824, but is not mentioned by her children when they discussed their father's estate [Ellis Harlan] in 1832."

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Catherine Kingfisher, in The James Scrolls
   22 Apr 2009.

   Catherine Kingfisher 1752 - 1817
   My 5G Grandmother (Nancy Ward, Tame Doe Raven, Anaway Nancy Moytoy, Amatoya Moytoy)
   
   The most extensive Harlan family history states that Ellis Harlan married “Catherine Kingfisher, daughter of Kingfisher, a famous Chief, and Chigau”. Chigau is better known as Nancy Ward, from her marriage to a second husband Bryan Ward. This is the same Nancy Ward who was a friend to the whites, and aided the escape of Ezekiel Buffington from Cherokee upper town. Catherine was the widow of John Walker at the time of her marriage to Ellis Harlan in Tennessee. Probably at the Inn operated by her mother at Woman Killer Ford on the Ocowee River.

2.   From the "HISTORY OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS", Dr. Emmet Starr, Hoffman Printing Co., Muskogee, 1984: She was a full blood Cherokee. She married Ellis Harlan a white man.