His father, my 5th great, was killed while trying to rescue them both, he’d gotten the militia to mount a rescue mission, it was commanded by Hugh Waddell. My 4th, his son, was rescued. They never found his mother. Speculation is that she herself was Cherokee, otherwise they’d have just killed her and her son.
That makes sense, the reason they spared her and the son. It mustn’t have been easy for the boy to lose both parents. Hopefully the extended family took him in and raised/loved him.