Jes- None of these people are on the Cherokee Final Roll. If you have the opportunity to get a book called Those Who Cried do so. These are the people on the Famous Trail. Of course I think there are 50,000 John Benges but one of them is my cousin and he was Commander of one wagon.There were thirteen wagons and I have copies of four. Finally wrote to my friend Senatot Boren but what he sent me doesn't look like the others. Been so long since all this has been looked at I hardly know what I've got. Oleta On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:46:02 EDT HealTheCircle@aol.com writes: > Oleta and Jan....thank you very much for your continued information > > regarding your families, and your involvement in the OHS, Oleta. I > know that OK is > rich in Cherokee history....and in fact, in other tribes as well, > being the > end of the TOT. I have just started my traverse in OK....from AR. > My time is > somewhat limited, as I am only in AR half the year. > > However, I finally made it over last year to Tahlequah...and visited > the > Heritage Center. I really enjoyed my stay at the Herrins cabin, in > the woods, > near the Hertiage Center. I would like to go to the Celebration > held over > Labor Day, but have a conflict with my Voss Family Reunion on the > same weekend. > Perhaps this next year we'll change that date and we as a family > may come > over for that celebration. > > I was telling Jan about the Sequoyah Research Center, and, she, me; > as we > both live, and have our family history there. From there mine goes > back to TN, > then GA and NC. I was very surprised (pleasantly) by AR interest, > and > commitment to the part of the Trail of Tears (all routes, land and > water) that > traversed across AR. Probably because it is the homeplace of 5 > generations of my > Sikes, and Voss families....starting in about 1845 for the > Voss....and 1898 > for the Sikes. > > My Voss side goes back to around Henryville, TN.....and there is an > oral > history that says my ggggrandmother Charlotte Mitchell Voss..was a > fullbood > Cherokee, and she, and ggggrandfather Robert James Voss, were > married at > Chattanooga, which at that time was Ross's Landing. Although we > can't trace by > documented proof. > > Their son, William James Voss, married Susanna Pennington....whose > family > traced back through the Tuttles, and Proctors (both Cherokee) Their > son, > Franklin Pierce Voss, married, Mary Adeline Ellis, whose family > traced back > through the Sanders, Lunas (Looneys), and the Hogans. This is the > Sanders, who by > oral history was John Walkingstick....?? I would like to think he > was, but > nothing I have been able to document tells me so. > > All these families are in TN, before AR, and trace back to NC and > GA. > > Been back to GA, to see the Sikes homestead, but have not been back > to > Henryville. Although a kin says that the Mitchells, and that > family, are buried > along the Natchez Trace...that runs through TN. I do hope to go, > and pay my > respects. I do have kin that was in Henryville, but moved. I just > made > contact with a Voss relative, who may be near the old homestead, as > he is living > on his grandfather's homestead. > > We'll see. > > > jes > > Those are my stories...or parts and pieces of them. Guess the > descendants of > the Mitchell family did do applications for the Dawes, and the > Guinon Miller, > through Thomas Mitchell, the father. Apparently my gggrandfather > Voss, > cautioned his children not to identify themselves as > Cheorkee...probably for the > same reasons as others, who feither eared some type of retaliation, > or wanted > nothing from the government. > > But, my history says that the children were actually adopted by he > and his > wife, on their travels from NC to TN in about 1813...found in a > campground > outside of what was then Ross's Landing (now Chattanooga). That's > what made us > think they went there for their wedding to be with her family. So if > that is > the true oral history...we have no names to trace....as they were > anglicized > upon adoption to protect them...is my belief. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIAN-TERRITORY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message > >