Rejected Guion Miller Application 43776
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walkitout"Appl. #43776-32091
Mary J. Burch being first duly swon, deposes
and says:
My name is Mary J. Burch. I live at Laurel,
ArK. I was born in Bradley Co., Tenn. I was born in 1834
or 1833. I lived in Eastern Tenn. 27 years and then moved
to Ark. I moved out to Ark. just because my husband wanted to
come. I was born with the Cherokee tribe of Indians and was
living right with them in Tenn. I don't know whether I was
a recognized member of the tribe or not. I claim through my
mother, Polly Ann Carson. She was born in Eastern Tenn.
She was about 27 years old I reckon when I was born. I reckon
she was a recognized member of the tribe. They were living
with the Indians the first I can remember. She lived and died
in Tenn. She did not move out west with the Indians because
my grandfather was an American man and they could not make
him come out west with the Indians. My grandmother's name
was Martha Glass. I never made an application for citizen-
ship in the Dawes Commission. If any of my relatives did,
I did not know it. None of my ancestors received any money
or land from the Govt. on account of an Indian blood as I
know of.
See Mary J. Burch's original Appl May J. Lay Burch.
[signed]
Subscribed and swon to before me at Russellville, Ark. this
12th day of September, 1908.
[unsigned]
Ass't to Special Commissioner
U.S. Court of Claims"
Martha Glass and the unnamed grandfather are direct ancestors of mine. This is all very unexpected.
Mary J. Burch being first duly swon, deposes
and says:
My name is Mary J. Burch. I live at Laurel,
ArK. I was born in Bradley Co., Tenn. I was born in 1834
or 1833. I lived in Eastern Tenn. 27 years and then moved
to Ark. I moved out to Ark. just because my husband wanted to
come. I was born with the Cherokee tribe of Indians and was
living right with them in Tenn. I don't know whether I was
a recognized member of the tribe or not. I claim through my
mother, Polly Ann Carson. She was born in Eastern Tenn.
She was about 27 years old I reckon when I was born. I reckon
she was a recognized member of the tribe. They were living
with the Indians the first I can remember. She lived and died
in Tenn. She did not move out west with the Indians because
my grandfather was an American man and they could not make
him come out west with the Indians. My grandmother's name
was Martha Glass. I never made an application for citizen-
ship in the Dawes Commission. If any of my relatives did,
I did not know it. None of my ancestors received any money
or land from the Govt. on account of an Indian blood as I
know of.
See Mary J. Burch's original Appl May J. Lay Burch.
[signed]
Subscribed and swon to before me at Russellville, Ark. this
12th day of September, 1908.
[unsigned]
Ass't to Special Commissioner
U.S. Court of Claims"
Martha Glass and the unnamed grandfather are direct ancestors of mine. This is all very unexpected.
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Date: 2014-04-01 09:12 pm (UTC)yep -- that's a tremendously wonderful source
Date: 2014-04-02 12:09 am (UTC)So there's that person, who has worked up from their own family, and then there are people working the Carson side down. The Carson side down people think that William Carroll Allen died around the time Susan Carson (his wife) did, in the 1860s. In fact, as that site shows, he went off to fight on the Union side (while most of the extended Carson clan, if participating, participated on the Confederate side), and the minor children were, according to Carson side researchers, given to one S.P. Gant, who I have been comprehensively unable to identify, or even to figure out what document led those researchers to come up with that name. William Carroll Allen remarried, they got the kids back (along with Almira's kids from a previous marriage) and carried on from there.
I'm currently in the process of going through all the Carson side evidence, and then digging back through my DNA matches, to see if that explains any heretofore unexplained (for these purposes, that would be someone who matches my DNA, but wasn't showing a shared ancestor before, but is now, on the Carson side) people (because, fun! and it is actually working, right down to matching on people who the shared ancestor is a brother of Absolum Carson!). I'm also trying to more fully understand what documents that crowd is using in hopes of figuring out who the guardian was for the kids (the mysterious S.P. Gant). And similar. I still hold out hope that I will eventually find William Carroll Allen's parents/family.
Re: yep -- that's a tremendously wonderful source
Date: 2014-04-02 12:09 am (UTC)Re: yep -- that's a tremendously wonderful source
Date: 2014-04-02 12:57 am (UTC)