Tennessee, Fort
( lass, a! ( 'alhoun. on Hiwassee river, in McMinn county. In Alabama, Fort Turkey-
town, on Coosa river, at Center, in Cherokee county. Authority: Author's personal
information.
I 44 Mi Nair's GRAVE, (p. 132): Just inside the Tennessee line, where the Cona-
sauga river bends again into Georgia, is a stone-walled grave, with a slab, on which
is an epitaph which tells its own story of the Removal heartbreak. McNair was a
white man, prominent in the Cherokee Nation, whose wife was a daughter of the
chief, Vann, who welcomed the Moravian missionaries and gave his own house for
their use. The date shows that she died while tin- Removal was in progress, possibly
222 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE leth.ann.19
while waiting in the stockade camp. The inscription, with details, is given from
information kindly furnished byMr D. K. Dunn of Conasauga, Tennessee, in a
letter dated August 16, 1890:
"Sacred to the memory of David and DelilahA. McNair, who departed this life, the
former on tlir 15th of August, L836, and the latter on the 30th of November, L838.
Their children, being members of the Cherokee Nation and having to go with their
j ico] ili' to the West, do leave this i lument, not only to show their regard for their
parents, but to guard their sacred ashes against the unhallowed intrusion of the white
man."
(45) President Samuel Houston, (p. 145) : This remarkable man was horn in Rock-
bridge county, Virginia, March 2, 1793, and died at Huntsville, Texas, July 25, 1863.
( if strangely versatile, but forceful, character, he occupies a unique position in Ameri-
can history, combining in a