To the new subscribers to Indian Territory Roots- a sincere and hearty "Welcome". To the "not-so-new" subscribers- since at least 25 new people have subscribed in the past couple of weeks- why not welcome them by posting our own Indian Territory families, and see if someone can make a connection? Jerri C. "List Mistress" Indian Territory Roots

Old subscriber -- here is my family. It includes a lot of information, a lot of question marks, and a little guessing, so be warned, and be patient :) -- Before my first ancestors to arrive in Indian Territory went to Arkansas, they were here -- http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/scott/church/stonycrk.txt in SW Va. Nevil Wayland Jr was church clerk of Stoney Creek Primitive Baptist Church. If you research it you'll find it was th first recorded church where the word "Melungin" was used in 1813 (I am descended from Nevil Jr's brother WilliamWayland). The most recent research on the Melungeons has shown "some of these families" to be descended from "Piedmont Siouan" people -- Saponi, Eno, Monacan, Tutelo, Saura/Cheraw, and the largest group, Catawba. I believe many of these people were later called "Cherokee" mistakenly and are just now discovering earlier records from colonial days. One man wrote the Melungeons were the "friendly Indians" who came west with the first settlers. ============ Here it mentions my Wayland's as helping organize the first Methodist church in Arkansas territory. Notice the first pastor was Eli Lindsay. http://www.couchgenweb.com/lawrence/church/walnmeth.htm At the link below is an article entitled "The Beginning of Methodism in Indian Territory" and it speaks of that same circuit pastored by Eli Lindsay, saying another church was of tha circuit was on th west bank of the White River basically, making it inside Indian Teritory as it was defined between 1818 and 1828. Therefore it was the first protestant church amongst the Cherokee in Arkansas. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v007/v007p475.html I found 2 of my Wayland's stationed at Fort Gibson (first cousins to my direct ancestor) I believe the year is 1832. Found one Wayland still at Ft Gibson in 1836. I have not seen any records after 1836. http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgs/roster_of_beans_rangers.htm ======================== Oscar Richey (grandma's brother) is mentioned a the link below. He wrote the family story of living in Intian territory to someone who interviewed him. http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/pioneer/index.htm Dad was A.O. Hawkins (1915-1992). His father was Noah Allen Hawkins and he & grandma married 1904 near Loco, Chickasaw Nation, presnt day southern Stephens County, Ok. Grandma was Lona (but I never heard her called that, everyone called her "Loney") Richey Hawkins. We don't know why grandpa was in the Chickasaw Nation in 1904. Why'd he come up here alone? He was here in 1904 as that's when they married, but how long had he been here before that? He was born in Falls County, Tx in 1877. Noah's parents were Joshua Allen Hawkins (b. Al 1837- d. Tx 1892) and Elizabeth Mary Ann Byrum (b. NC @ late 1840s, d. Tx 1926). Jeffrey Hoten Richey (1851-1926) was my great grandpa. His wife was Jospehine Brown (1852-1932), m. 1872. Josephine's parents wre Harriet Guess (1818-1886) and David B Brown (1822-1865). Jeff's mother was Sarah Ann Wayland, cousin to the 2 Wayland boys in the Army at Fort Gibson from 1832 to 1836 at least. That's about all the surnames in my direct line I expect to find in Indian Territory. Other names are Woods, Hamilton, Looney, Joiner, McNutt, Dickson, Black. Oh, my John Woods is in Blount Co., Tn from mid 1780s (when he was a child) to 1806 (he lived there through much of that troubled time when there was a lot of warfare), and Glass asked permission for "John Woods" to be given a passport to ply his craft of 'blacksmith" near Lookout Mountain at least between 1801 and 1803. It might be the same John Woods as he was an adult by then), but I can not be certain. But John's father was Joseph Woods b. Albamarle Co., Va 1745. That is the same county where Thomas Jefferson recorded in 1755 spotting some Indians going to a mound on his lands, staying a while and then leaving. John Wods married a Hamilton girl and they moved to Rockbridge Co., Va in 1768-1770. part of Rockbridge later became Amherst Co, Va. That is the site of the Virginia state recognized Monacan tribe today, and 2 of their most commom surnames are Woods and Hamilton. They were once called "Buffalo Ridge Cherokee" by a 19th century anthropologist but that has been proven to be in error. Now my Brown's. On 1850 census Harriet gives her place of birth as Alabama. On 1860 and 1870 she gives Tennessee and on 1880 census she says Georgia. On 1850,60, and 70 census she is in Arkansas census but in 1880 census she is with her eldest son John Brown and his wife listed as "Sis" and they are in what the census records as "Hokes Bluff/Turkeytown", Etowah Co., Alabama. I read "Sis" was short for "Narcisus". I never have found John H. and Narcisus (aka Sis) Brown after that 1880 census, but I haven't looked hard. John and Hariet (listed as John's mother) are the exact right age to be my great grandma's brother and mother so I am pretty sure it is them. To confuse things tho as to where Hariet was born, my great grandma on 1900 census of Chickasaw Nation lists her mother as being born in Mississippi. On 1910 and 1920 Oklahoma census she also says her mother (Hariet) was born in Mississippi. So different census record say Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia or Mississippi. I think she said that in 1900 because she was thinking of the Chickasaw Dawes allotments knowing the Chickasaw came from Mississippi, but then they never applied for Dawes, knowin' they were not Chickasaw. But that is just a guess. Vance Hawkins ps 1 -- In "Indian-Pioneer Papers my great uncle said his parents lived in Indian Territory just inside the line on the Arkansas River, not far from Fort Smith. Then he says he doesn't know if they were in Sequoyah or Le Flore County, after they got married in 1872, saying he didn't know which side of the Arkansas River they lived on. Now they were not there long as in the 1880 census they are in Denton County, Tx, and came back to live in the Chickasaw Nation in 1889. I was told the 1890 census in the Chickasaw Nation doesn't exist any more. I bet they were in the Choctaw Nation (Le flore County) because family story says in an old Bible my great grandma wrote that her first child, Charlotte, died when she was about one year old in the Choctaw Nation. At most they lived there from 1872 to 1879. I was wondering if it would be possible to find a record of this anywhere other than what my great uncle said in Indian Pioneer papers, and a family story about what was written in a Bible that doesn't exist any more, to the best of my knowledge. ps 2 -- I talked to a Catawba genealogist who was interested in my family story and said several Catawba families did come to Indian Territory but that noone knows what happened to them. I probably can't connect mine to them either, tho, but I wonder about it. He said they went to live in the Choctaw Nation and just dissapeared after that. One other thing I am curious about. When I was in the 7th or 8th grade, I took "Oklahoma History". Later I saw online and rememebred. Sixty-nine Indian tribes came to Oklahoma, and now there are 38 or 9 federally recognized I believe it is. Where can a person get a list of the other 30 or so tribes? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerri (Rogers) Chasteen" <jerri@cherokee.net> To: <Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 6:00 PM Subject: [IT ROOTS] New Subscribers > To the new subscribers to Indian Territory Roots- a sincere and hearty > "Welcome". > > To the "not-so-new" subscribers- since at least 25 new people have > subscribed in the past couple of weeks- why not welcome them by posting > our own Indian Territory families, and see if someone can make a > connection? > > > Jerri C. > "List Mistress" > Indian Territory Roots > > > ==== Indian-Territory-Roots Mailing List ==== > For instructions to unsubscribe and list rules, click on > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cherokee/welcome.html > List owner: jerri@cherokee.net Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ > > >