Person:Wa-ki Tickaneesky (1)

Her Yoneg (English) name was Rebecca Tickaneesky, her Cherokee name was Wa-ki (pronounced wah-kee). This was evidently a very common name for children, as it appears many times on the early rolls. The name Tickaneesky means “catcher”, or “he/she who catches” and some of her brothers eventually adopted the Yoneg translation “Ketcher” for their surname.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Rebecca Ketcher Neugin, in Find A Grave.

   Birth: Apr., 1827
   Georgia, USA
   Death: Nov., 1933, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
   Burial: Neugin Cemetery, Hulbert, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
   
   Children: Eliza Neugin Spears (1871 - 1933)

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Poncy-Mandeville-Thompson-Hedrick, by Duane, in RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project
   ID: I302, accessed 10 Aug 2012.
3. ↑ Mayes, Oklahoma, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T625).

   Place: River, Mayes, Oklahoma; Roll: T625_1473; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 41; Image: 89.

4. ↑ Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T624).

   Place: Peggs, Cherokee, Oklahoma; Roll: T624_1244; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 0015; Image: 827; FHL microfilm: 1375257.

5. ↑ Ketcher is the English version of her maiden name.