Improvements to Annexed Cherokee Lands
List of the improvements, with the proprietors’ names, on lands ceded by the Cherokees to the United States, by the treaty of the 6th of May, 1828, with the appraised value, &c. annexed.
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Genealogy of the Cherokee Ridge-Watie Families
Instructions on how to interpret this information 11 Oganstota 111 Major Ridge. Susie Wickett A37 2 Oowatee. Susannah Reese A37 111213 John Ridge. Sarah Bird Northrup 2 Sarah Ridge. George Washington Paschal OK 3 Walter Ridge* Elizabeth 112213 Nannie Watie. John Foster Wheeler 2 Stand Watie. Elizabeth Fields, Isabel Hicks nee Miller, Eleanor Looney and Sallie Caroline Bell A38 3 Killekeena Watie. Harriette Gold and Delight Sergeant A37 OK 4 Thomas Black Watie* 5 Mary Ann Watie. John Walker Candy 6 John Alexander Watie. Eliza Fields 7 Elizabeth Watie. Lewis Webber 8 Charles Edwin Watie* 11121314 John Rollin Ridge. Elizabeth … Read more
Biographies of Western Nebraska
These biographies are of men prominent in the building of western Nebraska. These men settled in Cheyenne, Box Butte, Deuel, Garden, Sioux, Kimball, Morrill, Sheridan, Scotts Bluff, Banner, and Dawes counties. A group of counties often called the panhandle of Nebraska. The History Of Western Nebraska & It’s People is a trustworthy history of the days of exploration and discovery, of the pioneer sacrifices and settlements, of the life and organization of the territory of Nebraska, of the first fifty years of statehood and progress, and of the place Nebraska holds in the scale of character and civilization. In the … Read more
Wayman A. Ridge
Private 1st Class, Inf., Co. I, 322nd Regt., 81st Div. Born in Randolph County July 28, 1892; son of J. A. and Orie Ridge. Entered service at Ashboro, N.C., May 29, 1918. Sent to Camp Jackson, S. C. Transferred to Camp Sevier, S. C., then to Camp Upton, N. Y. Sailed for France Aug. 11, 1918. Fought at Meuse-Argonne. Returned to the USA June 18, 1919. Mustered out at Camp Lee, Va., June 26, 1919.