Allen Rackley ( Alini ) The proud son of Thomas William Rackley born in the old Chickamauga Nation of the smoky mountains. Allen was a scholar student of the Brainerd Mission in Tennessee and spoke several Native languages including proper English. Allen first known wife was Gilly Timberlake, they separated prior 1840, Allen moved west on the "Trail of Tears". Allen served as a Native American guide & Interpreter between the Cherokees and the white man during the "Trail of Tears Removal". Allen traveled west wards to Oklahoma aboard one of Chief Joseph Vann Steamboats, where he was a river guide and interpreter to the Native Americans arriving to Webber Falls early 1838 and settled in the Illinois District of Oklahoma where he served as Cherokee Councilman from 1849-1859, he was a Methodist minister preacher for the "Five Civilized Tribes". Allen remarried Ellen Eli Bolin they named their son Wallace in honor of his brother who died in the old Cherokee Nation in 1838. Allen son Wallace was a Cherokee elected Judge in Gore Oklahoma in 1887 and was buried in Still Cemetery. Wallace named one his sons Marion Allen Ratley . Allen Rackley grave has not been located at this time, his last known location was in Illinois District in Indian Territory of Oklahoma living in the Tahlonteeskee Indian Village near Gore or Sallisaw, Oklahoma where he elected as councilor for the Tahlonteeskee capitol of the western Cherokee Tribe.

Allen Rackley ( Alini or A-lun-nih or Aunah ) Also known as Ratliff / Ratley and Radcliff
Drennen Rolls 1852 Miller App:# 6736
1. Allen Rackleys Children: Wallace Ratley / Clinton Ratley / Polly Ratley McClain
2. Allen Rackleys Sister: Known as Lizzie or Elizabeth Rackley Robertson or Lizzy Ratley her mother married William H. Robertson , their son Wade Hampton Robertson aka Watie.

Child : Wallace Rackley "Aka Ratley" tsa-la-gi ᏣᎳᎩ
Indian Name: O-Ga-Na Ground hog in his hole ha-wi-na-di-tlv - u-tse-li - a-ta-le-sv
ᎣᎦᏅ ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ ᎤᏤᎵ ᎠᏔᎴᏒ
Ratley, Wallace March 20, 1844 to Apr 20, 1907
Married Elvira Goins 1886 Webbers Falls, Canadian District,CN,IT )
Private Wallace Ratley served in the 1st Regiment of the Confederate Cherokee Mounted Reg. of General Stand Wattie, Company E. of Oklahoma during the Civil war.
Judge Wallace Ratley appointed Tribal Court Judge 1887 Gore , Oklahoma
Wallace and Elvira Goins had a daughter name Sarah Ratley married James Samples.
The Rackleys in these families of Oklahoma Indian Nation are known as Ratliff and Ratley.
"Wallace Ratley O-Ga-Na "
Find A Grave Memorial# 6218724
Still cemetery Gore, Oklahoma
Children of Wallace Ratley : Richard Ratley / Sarah Ratley Samples / Marion Allen Ratley

Drennen Roll group 2 name district notes
8275 74 Allen Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma 19815
8276 74 Wallace Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma 1963
8277 74 Polly Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma
8415 112 Jane Ratley Illinois District , Oklahoma
8416 112 Dick Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma
8879 249 Joseph Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma
8899 259 Minerva Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma
8900 259 Lucy Ratley Illinois District, Oklahoma
9667 185 Polly Ratley Skin Bayou District, Oklahoma

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Notes:
Possible grave locations of Allen Rackley ( Tahlonteeskee ) or Sallisaw Oklahoma

While under authority of the Cherokee Nation, the area first called Skin Bayou District changed to Sequoyah District in 1851. Present Sequoyah County also comprises part of the old Illinois District. Early Cherokees ( Old Settlers ) established the first capital, Tahlonteeskee ( Tahlontuskey ) operative from 1829 to 1839 near the mouth of the Illinois River, near present Gore. Tahlonteeskee remained a meeting place for Old Settlers as Cherokee government and the Cherokee center of gravity shifted to Tahlequah during the civil war. Allen Ratley ( Rackley ) served as councilman from 1849 to 1859 at the Tahlontuskey supreme council court house.

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