Sequoyah
(1770?– August 1843?)
- Theda Perdue
Extract
Sequoyah (1770?– August 1843?), inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, was born in the Cherokee town of Tuskegee in present-day eastern Tennessee, of uncertain parentage. He married Sally (maiden name unknown) in 1815, and they had four children. According to Emmet Starr’s History of the Cherokee Indians...
