From Court REcords Index of Roane Co, TN Chancery Book 1824--1845 Volume 5, Issue 3, March 1874, page 19 Will of Toqua or Toka, commonly called Toka Will, was one of the Cherokee Indians belonging to their nation until 14 June 1819 when he became a citizen of the United States of America...head of an Indians family, took a reservation under the treaties between the United States and the Cherokee Nation dated 8 Jan 1817 and 27 Feb 1819. Toka Will is now an old man. He had resided with his family for more than 30 years in a town called Toqua. It contained the remains of the mother of his children and some of them also and there he had afterwards lived with his second wife until he had almost raised two families, while the bones of his ancestors were deposited and lay in the surrounding country. December Term 1828 pp448*457 __________ You folks need to pay particular attention to the wording of this abstract. Toka Will became a US citizen BECAUSE of his reservation....therefore relinquished any claim to the later given payements of the Guion Miller/Dawes Rolls people. The reservation should have gone back to the state upon his death but other things could have happened. This is just one of the reasons you might see someone you KNOW is Cherokee not counted or recognized as such. Joyce Gaston Reece