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- Isaac served in the American Revolution and is a Revolutionary ancestor for the SAR.
Marie Runyan Wright in her book "Up The Runyon / Runion Runyan Tree" 1993 on page 68 says that "Records show, also, that while living in Sevier County, Tennessee, one of Barefoot and Margaret's sons, Tavenor Runyan, was murdered near his home, in 1802, by a band of Indians." She included as documentation a portion of a letter written by Archibald Roane concerning the incident.
Ralph Jenkins ( rjenkin2@vm.temple.edu ) found a detailed account of the murder of Sammy Goose by Isaac Barefoot Runyan, and the subsequent revenge murder of Tavenor Runyan, as follows:
William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic,
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1986, pp. 50-51.
On July 2 [1802], a Cherokee named The Goose (or Sammy Goose) was
killed in Tennessee by Barefoot Runion, a white man. Runion said the
killing was an accident, and the chiefs in council accepted his story.
To avoid trouble, another council held in August wrote off the death
and forbade Goose's clan relations to take revenge. Nevertheless,
Ca-tah-coo-kee (or Dirt Bottle), his uncle, believed that Goose's spirit
required revenge. With four or five other kinsmen, Ca-tah-koo-kee went
to Sevier County, where Runion lived, and on September 8 killed
Runion's son Travenor with a tomahawk. A woman of the family was also
killed in the fray. The whites in the vicinity were much alarmed,
[Return Jonathan] Meigs reported, not knowing who else might be caught
in this feud. Some of them wished to gather a posse and go after
Ca-tah-coo-kee and his companions. One of them wrote to Meigs that if
the United States is Bound to keep up the Cherokee Nation in an Annual
Salary [annuity], those who were the Avowed Enemies of the United States
in their struggle for Independence, and Good Citizens who have Suffered
in the defence of their Right and their Country, Must Now Submit to the
Laws of that Nation, I mean the Cherokee Nation, Executed on them [blood
revenge] with Impunity, then matters had come to a dangerous pass. (34)
When Ca-tah-koo-kee returned home, the council, under prodding from
Meigs, agreed to arrest him and turn him over to the white authorities
in Tennessee. However, fearing that a lynch mob might hang him, the
council insisted that he be placed in the United States army garrison
jail in Hiwassee until his trial. When the trial took place,
Ca-tah-coo-kee explained his position in terms of the tradition of clan
retaliation, but the court took no cognizance of it, and he was hanged.
Born:
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1757 - 1875 (117 years)
MARGARET ELIZABETH RUNYON, b. 19 Aug 1779, South Carolina, United States 
