Is anyone looking for documentation of Indian Heritage on THOMAS CATES Cherokee or JOSEPH CATES Creek: THOMAS CATES: b. 1859 parents: mother: NARCISSA CATES father: THOMAS CATES. Living in Indian Terr. 1880 JOSEPH CATES: b. 1840 parents; mother: HARRIET CATES father: JEFF CATES CREEK NATION: On one of the land records it shows a public cemetery on the property in Big Spring, Indian Terr. Township is 19 range 11 dated 1901.