1. Brushy Cemetery Location Brushy, Sequoyah County , Oklahoma , USA Show Map

2. During this time, Sequoyah invented a system for writing the Cherokee language

3. The hard work of the Sequoyah State Constitutional Convention was not entirely lost, however.

4. Brushy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States, along U.S

5. One Cherokee scholar, Sequoyah, saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to make a written form of the spoken Cherokee language.

6. After the death of Elizabeth Lewis Benge, John Benge married Elizabeth Wut Teh Watts, a Cherokee woman who had been married to Nathaniel Gist and bore Gist a son, George Sequoyah Gist.

7. And First Daughter Jasmine Hoskin visited the Gilcrease Museum on March 19 to view a circa 1838 syllabary document, which was handwritten and signed by the inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, Sequoyah