| Birth: | Mar. 19, 1827
Rome
Floyd County
Georgia, USA | | Death: | Oct. 5, 1867
Grass Valley
Nevada County
California, USA | 
John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee) was known as Cheesquatalawny and Yellow Bird. He was considered to be the first Native American novelist. He spent the last seventeen years of his life working as a newspaper editor and writer of the "Sacramento Bee" and the "San Francisco Herald." Significant writings include: "Poems" published in 1868, and "The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit" written in 1854. He was appointed to the Southern Cherokee delegation to Washington, D.C., in 1866. which was sent to negotiate a new treaty with the U.S. at the end of the Civil War. (bio by: Alice Huitt Preston)
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Parents:
John Ridge (1802 - 1839)
Sarah Bird Northrup Ridge (1804 - 1856)
Spouse:
Elizabeth Adelaide Wilson Ridge (1829 - 1905)
Children:
Alice Bird Ridge Beatty (1848 - 1912)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for John Ridge | | | Burial:
Greenwood Memorial Cemetery
Grass Valley
Nevada County
California, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Sep 06, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9426217 |
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