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Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 91-100

Guion Miller miscellaneous testimony pages 91-100 contain sworn statements from Mattie Tolliver, Mary Montgomery, Catharine A. Hansard, Lucinda Shaman, Mary Adkins, Robert McNew, Sarah Burket, William A. Burnett, John W. Hilliard, and James A. Holcomb. Gathered in Tennessee by special commissioners during Guion Miller’s examination of applications for the Eastern Cherokee payment, these records…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 81-90

Guion Miller miscellaneous testimony pages 81-90 contain sworn statements from Amanda G. Moore, Esom Fuguette, George W. McCrackin, Levi F. Lewis, Linville M. Waters, Martha Miller, Mrs. Hannah Hall, Richard J. McCrackin, and William A. McCrackin. Gathered in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia by special commissioners during Guion Miller’s examination of applications for the Eastern…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 71-80

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s 1906-1909 examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 61-70

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s 1906-1909 examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 51-60

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s 1906-1909 examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 41-50

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s 1906-1909 examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 31-40

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s 1906-1909 examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 21–30

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s 1906-1909 examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 11–20

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment of 1908. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages 11–20…

Guion Miller Miscellaneous Testimony, Pages 1-10

These miscellaneous testimony pages were gathered during Guion Miller’s 1906-1908 examination of applications for participation in the Eastern Cherokee payment. They contain sworn statements concerning claimed Cherokee ancestry, family relationships, previous enrollment attempts, residences, and the evidence available to individual applicants. This page presents miscellaneous testimony pages…

Genealogical Analysis of Eastern Cherokee Applications to the Guion-Miller Roll

Between 1906 and 1909, 45,847 applications were submitted on behalf of approximately 90,000 people seeking a share of the judgment awarded to the Eastern Cherokees by the United States Court of Claims. Each applicant had to establish descent from a Cherokee person who was a party to the treaties of 1835–1836 and 1846, while also meeting the other conditions imposed by the court. The surviving…

Siler Roll

The 1851 Siler Roll can be utilized for tracing Cherokee families who remained east of the Mississippi River after the Trail of Tears. Compiled by David W. Siler, a special agent of the Office of Indian Affairs, the roll was created under an Act of Congress passed in 1850 to identify Eastern Cherokees eligible to receive a per-capita payment promised under the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. Although…

1851 Chapman Roll: Eastern Cherokee

The 1851 Chapman Roll was compiled by Alfred Chapman in 1851–1852 as part of the distribution of treaty funds owed to Cherokees who had remained east of the Mississippi River after the Trail of Tears. All told he enumerated 2133 Cherokee who resided largely in the area known as the Eastern Cherokee Domain. In 1850, Congress authorized a per-capita payment to Cherokees living east of the…

In applying to the Guion-Miller roll, the question was whether applicants ancestry connected them to the Cherokee tribal body recognized as “parties to the treaties” of 1835-1836 and 1846, not simply whether any of the 45,857 applicants possessed Cherokee ancestry. To answer this question, the Guion-Miller Commission and the Court of Claims relied upon the concept of the “Eastern Cherokee Domain” as both a geographic and legal framework for determining tribal affiliation and treaty eligibility. Residence within recognized Cherokee communities, appearance on official rolls, and continued association with the Cherokee Nation became critical forms of evidence. Applicants unable to establish those connections often failed, regardless of longstanding oral traditions of Cherokee ancestry. Even now, this still confuses people. Descent from a former Cherokee tribal member does not automatically mean you will be recognized today as part of that tribe. It does mean that, genealogically, you are descended from a Cherokee. This article tries to explain the whole process to help you better understand the Guion Miller Roll.

Guion-Miller Cherokee Enrollment and Burned County Record Losses

Guion-Miller faced a monumental task when verifying applications for the Eastern Cherokee Eastern Enrollment (1906–1910). To prove eligibility, applicants had to link themselves to an ancestor named on the 1835 Henderson Roll or demonstrate that their family resided within the Cherokee domain at the time of the 1835 treaty. In 1835, prior to removal, the Eastern Cherokee domain comprised all or…

Guion Miller Application of Elijah Eaves

Elijah EavesDay, MissouriRejected Guion Miller Roll : Applicant Number 35 APPLICANTS CLAIMING THROUGH ALEXANDER BROWN AND HISCHILDREN, THOMAS, JOHN, ISOM, ANNIS, SALLIE ANDDICIE BROWN Applicants herein claim to be descendants of the Alexander Brown whose name appears on the roll of 1835, enrolled at Oostennolle River, Ga. The Alexander Brown on the 1835 roll was enrolled, with two others,…

Genealogy of Alexander Brown of Polk County, Missouri

Many applications to the Eastern Cherokee Tribe claimed Cherokee descent through Alexander Brown. As was the procedures for the commission setup by the Courts to oversee the payment, they batched family groups together and filed the reasoning for admittance or rejection under the lowest numbered application. In this case it was the application #35 of Elijah Eaves. As I process the additional…

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