Are you all confusing the generations of Doubleheads? The original Chief Doublehead died in the very early 1800's. Since there is little accounting of the exact path DeSoto would have taken it would be extremely difficult to speculate that Chief Doublehead could have possessed some fabled gold 2oo years later. As I have stated before there is absolutely NO documentation that verifies that Chief Doublehead was transported anywhere to be buried. He was born on the Long Island of the HOLSTEN which would now be in northeast Tennessee. Kentucky lands were never lands the Cherokee lived on. It was hunting ground shared both by the Shawnee and Cherokee...plus several Native American cultures. If you think about the logistics of transporting a body from northeast Alabama to Kentucky would mean the body was decaying. There were no special burial customs among the Cherokee. The journal of Henry Timberlake speaks of bodies being tossed into the river to get rid of them. There is nothing that verifies or documents the existence of Cornblossom...except to say the Shawnee have the same legend in their tribe. I've challenged people for about 8 years to show me documentation that any of this is true. No one has yet. IF it IS true I will gladly change my story but until it is documented it is myth. And don't point me toward the Trankersley site. His statements say that researchers probably will never know....not that they do know.

There is no documentation that he had any relationship with any of Priber's daughters. Priber stayed among the Cherokee for a very short time...about 3 years beginning in 1728, ending in 1731 when he was arrested and sent to jail in Georgia where he died. This is verified in the journal of Ludovic Grant who was asked by the SC governor to arrest Priber but failed. Priber was a bit of a lunatic...a very strange person.