Walker Russell

Walker Russell was born in 1850 in the Illinois District, Cherokee Nation. In his Dawes roll application, he stated that he had lived in the Cherokee Nation all his life, except, he had left the Nation during the Civil War.  His grandfather was Charles Reese and his grandmother was Nancy Timberlake, who was a descendant of a Cherokee war Chief Osfenaco. Charles Reese was a member of the Cherokee National Council in the old Cherokee Nation for a number of years, representing the Chickamauga district. He was also a decorated veteran of the 1814 Creek war and the battle of Horseshoe Bend, where he was cited by Gen. Andrew Jackson in his dispatches to Washington.  

Walker Russell and his brother Andrew applied for and received a license to trade as the Russell Brothers Mercantile, in Gans, Sequoyah District, Cherokee Nation.  Andrew was a District Judge for Sequoyah District and was also mayor of Gans.  Andrew also married a great, granddaughter of George Guest, also known as the great "Sequoyah".  Walker Russell died in 1903 during the period when the Dawes files were being worked on.  His name appeared on the final roll, but was lined through and noted as dying in 1903.