John Looney – d. 16 May 1846
The National Intelligencer, May 18, 1846
Died, at Fuller's hotel, on Friday morning, at a quarter past 8 o'clock,
Captain John Looney, a member of the delegation representing the
Cherokee Nation now in this city on business with the United States
Government.
Captain Looney was the nephew of the celebrated chieftain Enolce,
or Black Fox. He was about seventy years of age, and distinguished
as a brave, honest, and good man. He has ever been a firm and
unwavering friend to the whites, and to the civilization of the red
race. During the war with the Creek Indians, he joined the Cherokee
regiment which co-operated with the American army under the
command of General Andrew Jackson, and at the battle of Tallodega
he received a severe gun-shot wound from the enemy, and for which
disability he had been allowed a pension for life by this Government;
and after the treaties of 1817 and 1819 he removed with his family
and many others of his people, to the new country acquired by the Nation from the United States, west, by virtue of the exchange of land which took place under the treaties mentioned. To the treaty of 1828 his signature will be
found as one of the subscribing negotiators. He has held many conspicuous offices, posts of honor, and trust among
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his people; and, after the death of John Jolly, he was the only surviving legitimate chief in power under the "Old
Settlers," or "Western Cherokees," when the Cherokee Nation from east of the Mississippi removed and arrived in
their new country west, in the spring of 1839.
In the measures pursued for the preservation of peace, harmony, and brotherhood, and which led to the adoption of the Act of Union that made the Eastern and Western Cherokees again a united people under the present existing
Government of the Cherokee Nation, Captain Looney, as a true patriot and friend to the prosperity and happiness of his people, acquitted himself wisely, and gained the full confidence of not only his own immediate constituents, the "old settlers," but also of the new emigrants from their ancient country east of the Mississippi. He has left a very worthy and respectable family and numerous friends to mourn his loss. For some days previous to his death he appeared to be conscious that he could not recover from his sickness; and, in a conversation on the subject, he remarked that he had fully made his peace with his Maker; and that he did not in the least fear to die, whenever it should please him to take his spark of life away; that the great and the powerful, the humble and the weak, were alike all doomed, sooner or later, to the same end, and he knew that death awaited all. C.D.
Treaty with the Western (Arkansas) Cherokee of 1828 concluded in Washington, May 28, 1828 signed by James Barbour (Secretary of War), ... (others)..., John Looney and John Rogers
John Looney, John Rogers and John Brown (on behalf of the Western Cherokees) signed the proposition to discuss the reunification of the Eastern and Western Nations
John Looney and John Rogers invited to Fort Gibson, June 24, 1839, to negotiate peace and settle unrest after the murder of John and Major Ridge and Elias Boudinot
John Looney signed the “Act of Union Between the Eastern and Western Cherokee” (Aug. 23, 1839)

MY Cherokee Looney's --

CONTROL NUMBER: NRFF-75-53A-11556Census Card Number: M3612CHEROKEECertificate of MarriageWilliam Looney, age 38, roll # 4684Mattie Harmon, age 30date of marriage: 5/09/1903Texanna, Indian Territory==============================================================CONTROL NUMBER: NRFF-75-53A-11553Census Card Number: M3612CHEROKEEApplication for Enrollment of MinorsJames E. Looney, b: 1/28/1904, roll # 4137father: William Looney, citizen of the Cherokee nation, roll # 4684mother: Mattie Looney (nee Harmon), age 35, citizen of the US.