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Harriet R. Gold Boudinot. Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot (1805–1836) was notable as the wife of Cherokee Elias Boudinot (Buck Watie), who became a leader in the Cherokee Nation and editor of its newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix.
Harriet R. Gold Boudinot was born in June 1805 in Cornwall, Connecticut. She was the fourteenth and youngest child of Benjamin and Eleanor Gold. Her family was wealthy and well-connected. She received a quality education with the expectation that someday she would become a prosperous Cornwall housewife.
Harriet Gold Boudinot (1805 – 1836) Sarah Northrup and Harriet Gold created national scandals in 1824 and 1826 when they married Cherokee men who had come to Cornwall as students at the Foreign Mission School.
Harriet Ruggles Boudinot formerly Gold. Born 10 Jun 1805 in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Ancestors. Daughter of Benjamin Gold and Eleanor (Johnson) Gold. Sister of Sarah Ann (Gold) Hopkins. Wife of Kilakeena (Watie) Boudinot — married 29 Mar 1826 in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
- Female
- June 10, 1805
- Kilakeena (Watie) Boudinot
- August 15, 1836
Harriet Ruggles Gold, 12th child of Deacon Benjamin Gold (B13) and Eleanor (Johnson) Gold, was born June 10, 1805, and died August 15, 1836. She was the central figure in, apparently, the first community outbreak over the social equality of the American Indian.
- Connecticut
- June 10, 1805
- Elias Boudinot
- August 15, 1836
In 1803, a young boy, Killekeenah Oowaite was born into the Cherokee tribe in Georgia. Two years later, in June 1805, Eleanor Gold, gave birth to her daughter Harriet in Cornwall, Connecticut. Nobody could have foreseen the consequences. Elias Boudinot, formerly known as Killekeenah Oowaite.
Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, the youngest child of Eleanor Johnson and Deacon Benjamin Gold. Her father helped found the Foreign Mission School, and the Gold family often hosted students at their home. It was at one of these social events that Harriet met Elias Boudinot of the Cherokee nation. She and Elias...
