Who Was Sequoyah Married to?

In 1815, Sequoyah married Sally Waters, a Cherokee woman of the Bird Clan, and began his family. Sequoyah, intrigued by the whites' ability to communicate through writing, worked for twelve years to create a system of approximately eighty-six characters that represented syllables in spoken Cherokee.

How many wives did Sequoyah?

According to one account, he had five wives and twenty or more children. His is commemorated by a California redwood tree called Sequoyah and a statue in Washington, D.C.

Did Sequoyah have any children?

Sequoah did have children, at least 7, and had at least three wives and perhaps as many as 5. He may have been polygamous as polygamy was accepted in the Cherokee Nation at the time. Of the Sequoyah families living in Indian Territory in 1869, the families had 9 male children listed.