Nancy Ward opened an inn in southeastern Tennessee on Womankiller Ford of what was then called the Ocowee River ( present day Ocoee River ) . Her son cared for her during her last years . She died in 1822 , or possibly 1824 , before the Cherokee were removed from their remaining lands during the Trail of Tears . She and her son Fivekiller are buried at the top of a hill not far from the site of the inn , which is south of present-day Benton , Tennessee . In 1923 the Nancy Ward chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution , based in Chattanooga , placed a memorial marker at the grave sites near Benton , Tennessee . Polk County , Tennessee where Benton is located , is trying to raise money to create a Nancy Ward Museum . The Polk County Historical and Genealogical Society currently maintains a Nancy Ward Room in their genealogy library until such a time as the museum is created
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Nancy Ward