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Genealogy of the Cherokee Blair Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Quatie.   Jonathan Blythe 1112 Sarah George Blair 2 Nannie Blythe. George Blair 3 James Blythe* 111213 James Blair* 2 Elizabeth Blair. John Lowrey 3 Lewis Blair. Polly Benge* and 4 Catherine Blair. _____McCuen 5 Lucy Blair. Samuel Houston Benge 6 Amy Blair* 7 Margaret Blair. Obediah Benge 8 Jonathan Blair* 9 Charles Blair* 10 Thomas Blair. Margaret Sanders 11 Sallie Blair* 12 Susannah Blair* 13 Eliza Blair. George Washington Baldridge 14  Mary Blair. Albert Johnson 15 Bettie Blair. Robert E. Sutton

Genealogy of the Cherokee Wilkerson Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Coo-ta-ya. Edward Wilkerson and John Wilkerson 1112 Eliza Wilkerson. Jesse Bushyhead ________ 2 Aaron Wilkerson 3 Richard Wilkerson* 4 James Wilkerson* 5 George Wilkerson.  Susan Poorbear 6 John Wilkerson. Annie Woods 151 John Wilkerson. Rebecca Oglesby 2 Riley Wilkerson* 3 James Monroe Wilkerson. Nancy Jane Keys 4 George Wilkerson 5 Laura Wells Wilkerson  Wilson Sanders 6 Eliza Wilkerson   John Ross 7 Leonard Worcester Wilkerson. Ellen Bible 8 Mary Wilkerson. John Henry Coody 116218 Martha Wilkerson*  John Groom 2 Nannie Wilkerson*  Solomon Ray 3 Mary Wilkerson. Charles Jones 4  Elizabeth Wilkerson. Mack Messer … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee Seabolt Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Henry Seabolt. Celia Timberlake and 1112 John Seabolt. Jennie Benge 2 Thomas Seabolt.   Hicks 3 Catherine Seabolt. John Chambers 4 Nannie Seabolt*  A-li-cha 5 Susie Seabolt. Ned Fields 6 Joseph Seabolt. Nannie Campbell nee Hair _______ 7 King Seabolt. Betsey Downing 8 Henry Seabolt. Eliza Benge 9 Elsie Seabolt 10 Margaret Seabolt. Mack Benge 11 Annie Seabolt. Charles Foreman 12 Richard Seabolt

Genealogy of the Cherokee Thompson Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 ________,  _______Thompson 1112 Jack Thompson. Jennie Vann, Nana and Elizabeth Merrell 2 Laugh at mush 3 Ne-coo-ie 111218 William Thompson. Nannie Merrell and Elizabeth Fields ________ 2 Alexander Thompson. Elizabeth Tipton 3 Sallie Thompson. Samuel Mackey 4 Charles Thompson* 5 Nannie Thompson. Benjamin Merrell 6 Elizabeth Thompson  Nelson Riley _______ 7 Margaret Thompson. Elijah Lynch and _____Barker 8 Betsey Thompson. Robert Runyan 9 John Thompson* 10 Richard Thompson. Caroline Simpson and Elizabeth Thornton 11 James Thompson* 12 Jennie Thompson  Samuel Crossland 11121314 Jennie Thompson*  Dr. Yarnall ________ 2 John Thompson. Margaret Fields, … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee England Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 David England. Susan A. Conner 1112  Martin England 2 Louisa England. Robert Blackstone 3 Irene England. Lee Scrimsher 4 Pinson England* 5 Carlton England* 6 Arminda England. William England, Isaac Scrimsher and Elias Jenkins 7 Mitchell England. Lucinda Jones 8 Saphronia England. Thomas Monroe 9 Sabra E. England* Peter Clark and Andrew Kelly 10 Martha England* 112213 Josephine Blackstone. Stephen Carlisle 2 Pleasant Napoleon Blackstone. Jennie Catherine Lipe. OK 3 Robert E. Blackstone. Sallie Jennings 4 Eliza Blackstone. James McMurry 5 Thomas Blackstone. Rosa Vaught 6 Laura L. Blackstone 113213 Eliza Scrimsher. … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee Hildebrand Family

A25. Peter Hildebrand, born May 10, 1782 in Germany. Married Elizabeth Harlan, born August 15, 1793. She died September 19, 1826. He was one of the Captains of Emigrant detachments in 1838-39 and located on Flint Creek where he operated a saw, turning and grist mill. He died on December 11, 1851. A62. Sarah Hildebrand was born on November 26, 1788. She married Blackcoat. By an act of the council at Piney on Piney Creek, Arkansas Cherokee Nation, on September 11, 1824, it was provided that “the Executive Department of the Cherokee Government shall consist of three persons, that is, … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee Smith Family

This is the known genealogy of the Smith Family of the Cherokee tribe. Instructions on how to interpret this information   11 ______Smith   1112 Cabin Smith   2 McCoy Smith*   111213 Hominy Simth. Aky Fields and Peggy   2 Oo-du-ski Smith. Tiger   3 Tiania Smith. Scraper   4 Go-li-si Smith. Turtle   5 Gu-er-tsa Smith.  SixkilIer   6 Archilla Smith. Agnes Fields   11121814 Ta-cha-gi-si Smith*   11122314 Ta-chi-chi Tiger   2 Redbird Tiger   3 Messenger Tiger. Celia Love   4 Pelican Tiger   5 Mark Tiger  Mary Thompson and Stidham nee Trott   6 Ti-ca-no-hi-la … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee Reese Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Nancy. Charles Reese and Alexander McPherson 1112 Susannah Reese. Oo-wa-tie. A37 2 Charles Reese. Nellie McCoy ________ 3 John McPherson. Susie McCoy 4 Andrew McPhersan 5 Alexander McPherson A37. Major Ridge and Oo-wa-tie, or The Ancient, were full blood Cherokees of the Deer clan. They were full brothers and born in Hiwassee town. Susie Wickett was a half blood English Cherokee and Susannah Reese was a half blood Welch-Cherokee. Ridge was a Major of the Cherokee allies of the United States soldiers in the war of 1814. He was killed at about … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee Halfbreed Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Gu-u-li-si 1112 Lydia Halfbreed  Charles Renatus Hicks 2 Pigeon Halfbreed  Neki Fields 3 Chinosa Halfbreed  Joseph Crutchfield A59 4 Susannah Halfbreed  John Wickett Fields 5 Jennie Halfbreed* A46 6 Elizabeth Halfbreed. Squirrel 7 Jesse Halfbreed. Jennie Fields 111213 Catherine Hicks. Andrew Miller and Thomas Gann 2 George Hicks. Aky Rogers and Lucy Fields 112213 Catherine Pigeon 2 Sulteesga Pigeon. Oo-ye-ki OK 3 Jack Pigeon. Elsie Buzzard 4 Lydia Pigeon. Lewis Cunnigan 5 Alfred Pigeon. Rachel Ketcher, Serena Frazier and Susie McGhee nee Beck 113213 George Hunter ___________ 2 John Crutchfield Mary Etta … Read more

Potawatomi Reservation

Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha Agency Report, of Special Agent Reuben Sears on the Indians of the Pottawatomie, Kickapoo, Iowa, and Chippewa and Munsee reservations, Kansas, August and September 1890. Names of Indian tribes or parts of tribes occupying said reservations :(a) Prairie band of Pottawatomi, Kickapoo, [Iowa], Chippewa, and Munsee. The unallotted areas of these reservations are: Pottawatomi, 77,358 acres, or 120.75 square miles; treaties of June 5, 1846, 9 U. S. Stats, p. 853; of November 15, 1861 (12 U. S. Stats, p. 1191); treaty of relinquishment, February 27, 1867 (15 U. S. Stats, p. 531). Kickapoo, 20,273 acres, … Read more

Iowa Reservation

The Iowa Indians of Kansas and Nebraska are fairly educated, at least the younger portion of them. Nearly all of them understand the English language; many of them speak it fluently, and many of their women are well educated. They are of good physical condition. They are also free from any external evidence of venereal disease. They are vigorous and active, and in appearance temperate, although it is said many of the men will drink whenever they can get whiskey. As a rule they cultivate their farms with judgment and skill, and raise all that is necessary to supply their … Read more

Kickapoo Reservation

The enumeration of the Kickapoos was made before my arrival, but upon examination I find that it was correctly done. The mental capacity of these people is high. They are smart, intelligent, and bright men and women. Their physical condition is good, and they are a clean, vigorous, and upright people. Their economical condition shows many evidences of prosperity. They are raising good crops for the season. They are every year breaking up additional prairie land, fencing in their fields, improving their homes, setting out fruit trees, cutting fodder like white farmers, and otherwise adding to their comforts and purses. … Read more

Chippewa And Munsee Reservation

The Chippewa, and Munsee (Christian) Indians have almost ceased to be Indians in the ordinary acceptation of the term. They are quite equal to the average white pioneers in mental capacity. They read, write, and speak the English language at all times. Their physical condition is as good as that of the average whites about them. They have no constitutional diseases nor any results of vicious habits. They dress like the whites, cultivate the soil, and raise corn, wheat, and other crops. Nearly all of the older members of these tribes have thrifty orchards of the apple, peach, cherry, and … Read more

Sac and Fox Reservation

Report of Special Agent Reuben Sears on the Indians of the Sac and Fox tract or reservation, Sac and Fox agency, Tama County, Iowa. 2.5 miles from the town of Tama, September 1890. Names of Indian tribes or parts of tribes occupying said reservation: (a) Pottawatomie, Sac (Sauk) and Fox of the Mississippi, and Winnebago. The unallotted area of this tract is 1,258 acres, or 2 square miles. The tract has been surveyed and subdivided. It was established by purchase. (See act of Congress approved. March 2, 1867, 14 U. S. Stats, p. 507.) Deeds November 1870, and 1882 and … Read more

Muskhogean Family

The Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885-1886, (based upon Muskhogees, Hitchittees, Seminoles), Pritchard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, v. 402, 1847 (includes Muskhogees, Seminoles, Hitchittees) Muskhogies, Berghaus (1845, Physik. Atlas, map 17, 1848) Ibid., 1852. Muscogee, Keane, App. Stanford’s comp. (Cent. And So. Am.), 460, 471, 1678 (includes Muscogees proper, and Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Hitchittees, Coosadas or Coosas, Alibamous, Apalaches). Maskoki, Gatschet, Creek Mig. Legend, I, 50, 1884 (general account of family; four branches, Maskoki, Apalachian, Alibama, Chalita). Berghaus, Physik. Atlas, map 72, 1887. Choctaw Muskhogee, Gallatin in Trans. and Coll. Am. Antiq. Soc., II, 119, 1836. Chocta-Muskhog, Gallatin … Read more

Iroquoian Family

As to the name, original location, geographical distribution, and tribal relations of the Cherokees, the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology gives the following information (pages 76-79): Iroquois, Gallatin in Trans, Am. Antiq. Soc., u, 2423, 305, 1836 (excludes Cherokees). Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, v. 881, 1817 (follows Gallatin). Gallatin in Trans. Am. Eth. Soc., II, pt.1, xcix, 77, 1848 (as in 1836). Gallatin, in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 401, 1853. Latham in Trans. Philolog. Soc. Lond., 58, 1856. Latham, Opuscula, 327, 1860. Latham, Elements Comp. Phil., 463, 1862. Irokesen, Berghans (1845), Physik. Atlas, map 17, 1848. Ibid, … Read more

The Eastern Cherokee Nation in 1890

The Cherokee Nation by a treaty made in 1817, ceded to the United States an area of land lying east of the Mississippi river. In exchange for this the United States ceded to that part of the nation then on the. Arkansas. River as much land on that river, acre for acre, as the United. States received from them east of the Mississippi River, and provided that all treaties then in force should continue in full force with all of the Cherokees. This established the two names, eastern and western Cherokees. The eastern band of Cherokees is the portion now … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee Duncan Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 ___Dorcas. Benge and Young Charles Gordon Duncan  |A47 1112 Edmond Benge. Mary Rains _______ 2 John Duncan. Elizabeth Abercrombie 3 Rebecca Duncan. James Landrum 4 Emily Duncan. Alexander Kell 5 Elizabeth Duncan* 6 Lewis Duncan* 7 Charles Duncan. Mahala Abercrombie 111213 Charles R. Duncan. Judith Roach 2 Martha Duncan. David Jones OK 3 John R. Duncan* 4 Jennie Duncan. Thomas Carey 5 Edmond Duncan. Maria Richey and Barbara Ashley 6 William B. Duncan. Narcissa Reeves Foreman nee Carey 7 Lewis Duncan. Mary Spears 8 George Washington Duncan* Martha Carey and Margaret Scrimsher … Read more

Genealogy of the Cherokee Riley Family

Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Samuel Riley. Gu-lu-sti-yu and Ni-go-di-ge-yu        |A55 1112 Nannie Riley. John McNary 2 Richard Riley. Diana Campbell 3 Mary Riley. Samuel Keys 4 Elizabeth Riley. Isaac Keys 5 John Riley. Susan Walker 6 Nellie Riley. Charles Coody 7 Sallie Riley. William Keys 8 Lucy Riley. Owen Brady 9 Louisa Riley. Dennis Biggs 10 Loony Riley. Rachel Stuart 11 Rachel Riley. Daniel Milton and James McDaniel _______ 12 James Riley. Jennie Shields and 13 Catherine Riley. Andrew Lacey 14 Martha Riley. John Hall 15 Madison Riley* 16 Nelson Riley. Elizabeth Thompson and Mary Cordell … Read more