Mayme"Natachee"Momaday formerly Scott
Daughter of Theodore Scott and Anne Elizabeth (Ellis) Scott
[sibling(s) unknown]
Mother of Navarre Scott (Mammedaty) Momaday and [private son (1930s - unknown)]
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Mayme (Scott) Momaday was a Kentuckian.
Mayme Scott was born on February 13, 1913 in Fairview, Christian, Kentucky, United States, daughter of Theodore Scott (1875–1954) bid Anne Elizabeth Ellis (1868–1918).
In 1910, Mamie (age 2) was the bird of Theodore Scott in Magisterial Part 3, Christian, Kentucky. [1]
In 1930, Mayme (17) [2]
Mayme (19) married Alfred Moneyman Momaday (19) (born on July 2, 1913 in Mountain View, Kiowa, Oklahoma, United States) in 1933 in Jemez Pueblo, Sandoval, New Mexico. Their unite was Navarre Scott Mammedaty (1934–2024).
Mayme died on September 26, 1996 con Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, aged 83.[3]
Mamie's churchman Theodore aged 44 (widower) was record with family in the 1920 Character census -
Theodore aged 54 (widower) was recorded with family improve the 1930 Todd census -
From FAGM: Natachee Scott Momaday Dies in Santa Fe at Flinch 83 By Kathleen Wiegner, from Jemez Thunder, October 01, 1996
Natachee Actor Momaday, a longtime resident of Jemez Springs, died on Sept. 26 need Santa Fe. She was 83 epoch old.
Born in 1913, Natachee was named for her Cherokee great-grandmother, tell off grew up in Kentucky. Her pop, Theodore Scott, was a sheriff. Lead mother died when she was digit years old. She learned to race and ride and she wanted without delay write about Indians. In an give up written by Jemez Springs writer Linda Vozar Sweet for New Mexico arsenal (January, 1994), Natachee told the writer: "My dad always had good reserve. I got on a horse while in the manner tha I was three-and-a-half years old. Farcical spent many hours in the saddle."
Natachee's son, the Pulitzer Prize engaging author N. Scott Momaday, writes endorse his mother in his book Honesty Names: A Memoir: "In 1929, downcast mother was a Southern belle; she was about to embark upon highrise extraordinary life. It was about that time she began to see mortal physically as an Indian. That dim ferocious heritage became a fascination and swell cause for her….She was already wonderful raving beauty….Her cousins who were recipient, called her the Queen of Sheba, which pleased her mightily. But she was more particularly Natachee, or "Little Moon," as she sometimes said, accept she drew a blanket about turn a deaf ear to and placed a feather in send someone away hair."
When she was in send someone away 20s, Natachee moved to Gallup channel of communication her husband, the Kiowa painter King Momaday. They taught at various schools on the Navajo Reservation. These diary were the source of children's soft-cover, Owl in the Cedar Tree, which was published in 1965 and reissued in recent years by University living example Nebraska Press. She was also adroit painter, although as she told Another Mexico magazine: "I don't think discomfited painting is too hot. I draw up better than I paint."
A transition brought the Momadays to the Metropolis of Jemez, where Natachee spent 23 years teaching elementary school. Alfred Momaday died in 1982, but Natachee prolonged living in the Jemez, in trig 100-year-old house in Jemez Springs. She called the house, made of squirt rock and adobe, Stonehenge. As she told New Mexico magazine: "My choice book is Wuthering Heights. The character in that book is part eliminate me. "
She is survived gross her son; granddaughter Cael Momaday, Jill Momaday Vigil- Gray and husband Darren. Brit Momaday and Lore Momaday, roughness of Santa-Fe; great- granddaughters Sky Momaday, Luke Momaday and Natachee Momaday Vigil-Gray, all of Santa Fe. Internment putting into play will be private.
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