WOW!!!!...found some WARD folks that were "injuns"????...fyi! Dan ================= -----Original Message----- From: James H. Granger [mailto:granger@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:36 PM To: Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IT ROOTS] Drennen Roll My direct ancestor, George Ward, and his family moved west during the Removal as part of Peter Hilderbrand's detachment of Cherokees, arriving in Indian Territory on January 30, 1839. The family established a home on Beatties Prairie, in the Delaware District of Indian Territory. They are not enumerated on the Drennen Roll of Delaware District, however, but instead, they appear on Drennen's Disputed Roll. As I understand it, the Disputed Roll included those Cherokees who lived in border areas--borders between the various Indian Territory districts, and between those districts and Arkansas. Does anyone know what dispute existed about Beatties Prairie that would cause its inhabitants to end up on the Disputed roll instead of the Delaware District Roll? On the Disputed Roll, George Ward and his daughter, Malinda are enumerated as group #15. George was married to Lucy Mayes, and there is a Lucy Ward enumerated alone in group #19. This is probably George's wife, although he also had a granddaughter named Lucy. George and Lucy (Mayes) Ward had a son, Samuel, and there is a Samuel Ward enumerated alone as group 17. They also had a son, James, and there is a James Ward enumerated alone as group #23. Between groups 15 and 23, other in-laws and married daughters are enumerated. It would appear that the census taker did not make any great effort to group families, but simply took the enrollees as he found them. If they were lined up as a family, they were recorded together, and if they came to the registration desk separately, they were enrolled that way. But I am guessing. Does anyone know the mechanics employed in compiling the Disputed Roll? Jim Granger ==== Indian-Territory-Roots Mailing List ==== For full instructions to subscribe, unsubscribe and list rules, click on http://www.rootsweb.com/~cherokee/welcome.html To send an e-mail to the list owner: jerri@cherokee.net