Betsy Pack Descendants to place flowers in her honor at Jasper Courthouse

JASPER, TN

The forming Association for the Descendants of Betsy Pack have planned a memorial service to be held at the heritage sign beside the Jasper, TN courthouse to take place Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 2:00 p.m. CST till 3:00 p.m. CST.

Everyone is invited to attend this ceremony.

Participants and guests are requested to wear red and white at the event to show solidarity. Red represents LIFE [and its struggle] and white represents PEACE [and happiness]. Descendants and Cherokees are also asked to wear appropriate regalia if they prefer.

Family & Friends of Betsy Lowery Pack, a Cherokee Woman, will gather to honor the memory of Betsy Pack and to celebrate the survival of her descendants and of the Cherokee People.
The flowers will be placed at the marker beside the courthouse. The marker is on U.S. Hwy 72, on the right when traveling west.

Who is Betsy Pack?

"Born Elizabeth Lowery, a daughter of prominent Chief John Lowery of the Cherokee, she lived in a house about 60 yards southeast of the present day Jasper Courthouse after her marriage. She donated the ground on which the town of Jasper was laid out in 1820, when the county seat was moved here from Cheekville, near Whitwell about 12 miles northeast.

"Betsy Lowery Pack established a ferry on the Tennessee River," said TN TOTA secretary Vicki Rozema in her book, Footsteps of the Cherokees (pp. 90-91). "It is believed to have been located four or five miles west of Bogg's Ferry at Runningwater Town and approximately seven miles east of her father's ferry at Battle Creek. In 1815, she and her mother ran a public house on Battle Creek called Lowrey's Place."

Betsy's land dwindled to 640 acres of land under the treaty of 1819, where the town of Jasper (Marion Co.) TN. now stands; She sectioned off the land with her home and the burial sites of her children to about 40 acres of which she deeded/leased to the commission of the town for $1 to remain IN TRUST for her and her heirs "FOREVER".

Betsy then sold the other 600 acres & moved to Wills Valley in Alabama where many other Cherokee had gathered for safety reasons. Wills Town was under the Red haired "CHIEF WILL". It was located in NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA.

There she is said to have lived in great style until she and many other Cherokee were forced to emigrate west in 1838.

Two of her children also emigrated while a third remained behind in the east.

Many of her descendants still remain in the areas of

Chattanooga, TN;

Monteagle, TN;

Jasper, TN;

Sewanee, TN;

Sequachie, TN

and north Alabama and North Georgia.

The group has a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/BETSYPACK/

BETSY PACK (NEE SHOREY) CHEROKEE MATRIARCH