Person:Wapameapto Shawnee (1)
Wapameapto "Big Jim" SHAWNEE
b.1834 Sabine, Texas, United States
d.30 Sep 1900 Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Wal-kos-ka-ka _____Est 1818 - 1865
  2. Nah-swah-pa-ma _____Est 1820 - Est 1856
  3. Pa-se-quah-mea-se _____Est 1825 - 1857
  4. Way-lahsk-se _____1827 - 1869
  5. May-thahsk-se _____1827 - 1827
  6. Wapameapto "Big Jim" SHAWNEE1834 - 1900
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Wapameapto "Big Jim" SHAWNEE1834 - 1900
  • W.  Ella Ellis
  1. Little Jim _____1871 - 1962
Spouse and Children
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  1. To-tom-mo _____Bet 1873 & 1875 - Bet 1930 & 1973
  2. Lo-pa _____1876 - 1909
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Facts and Events
Name[2] Wapameapto "Big Jim" SHAWNEE
Unknown Wah-pah-me-ah-pe-to _____
Alt Name[1] Wah-pah-meap-to _____
Unknown[1][5][6] Big Jim _____
Unknown[1] Wapameepto _____
Unknown[1] Gives Light as He Walks _____
Unknown[1] Dick Jim _____
Unknown[6] Waw-paw-meap-to _____
Gender Male
Alt Birth? Bef 1830
Birth[1] 1834 Sabine, Texas, United States
Marriage to Ella Ellis
Marriage to Ma-tho-Tay-Se _____
Marriage to Lah-Wep-Pea _____
Occupation? Chief Absentee Shawnee Tribe, also known as the Big Jim Band
Occupation? Chief, Kispicotha band of Shawnee, also known as Absentee Shawnee
Occupation[3] Chief of the Absentee Shawnees
Death[6] 30 Sep 1900 Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexicoage 66
Alt Death[1] 30 Sep 1900 Mexicosmallpox
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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 .

    jo: Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications/Ohio History Journal
    au: C. B. Galbreath
    ti: Tecumseh and His Descendants
    vol: 34
    no: 2
    dt: April 1925
    pp: 143-153
    http://resources.ohiohistory.org/ohj/search/display.php?page=1&ipp=20&searchterm=tecumseh%20and%20his%20descendants&vol=34&pages=143-153

  2. ↑ .

    Galbraith, J. D. (Associated Press)
    "Highlights in Ohio History: Descendants of Tecumseh"
    The Evening Review, East Liverpool, Ohio
    30 Jun 1934, Sat, Page 4

  3. ↑ .

    au: Randall, E. O.
    ti: Tecumseh, the Shawnee Chief
    jo: Ohio Archaelogical and Historical Society Publications
    vol: xv
    page: 497

  4.   .

    Dayton Daily News. (Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States), magazine section page 3, 16 Sep 1928.
    au: Burba, Howard
    ti: Son of the Shawnees Speaks

    Thomas Wildcat Alford is listed as a great grandson of Tecumseh.
    Thomas Wildcat Alford's mother was a sister of Big Jim.
    Big Jim and his sister were children of Tecumseh's son who died in Mexico in 1911.
    Big Jim's sister

  5. ↑ .

    Dayton Daily News. (Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States), page 4, 30 Jun 1934.
    Descendants of Tecumseh.

    Says Big Jim had a son named Thomas Washington.

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Absentee Shawnee News
    page 6, July 2015.
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