C. T. Suddeth

Shawnee Chief Tecumseh didn’t speak English, but in Green County Ohio he befriended James Galloway. James’s daughter Rebecca (1791-1876) taught Tecumseh to read and write English. They fell in love. In 1808, he asked her to marry him. He wanted a Shawnee life, she wanted a white life, they departed. She married a cousin the next year, but he never married again, killed in battle in 1813.