Person:Marguerite Ice (1)

Information on Marguerite Ice

REFN: 1-5 Taken into Ohio by the Mohawk indians in 1745, adopted by an Indian chief. Said to have married a son of the chief and became the mother of Tecumseh, born in 1768

Advisory on Mother of Tecumseh

There is a commonly repeated story that the mother of Tecumseh was Mary Bayles, wife of Andrew Ice, son of Frederick Ice. As the story goes, Mary Bayles, was stolen by the Indians and returned several years later with a 2 year old son whom she called Tecumseh. This story is easily contradicted since Mary Bayles was born in 1763, and Tecumseh was born in 1768. [1]

1.   Wirt County Journal.

   [from "A Pioneer History of Wirt County" by Tommie Sewell, in the
   Wirt County Journel, Vol 78 No 52, c 1978]

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Drake, Benjamin. Life of Tecumseh and of His Brother, the Prophet: with a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians. (Cincinnati: H. S. & J. Applegate & Co., 1852).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Cozzens, Peter. Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).

   Puckeshinwau's first wife was a Creek. She died before Puckeshinwau moved from Alabama to Ohio. Puckeshinwau's second wife was a Shawnee named Methoataske. Methoataske was Shawnee, Pekowi division. In general, Shawnee, Pekowi division were the part of the Shawnee in charge of religion and ceremony.