Forum Post - swaggerty_su - 85
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Re: WILL WE EVER FIND MARION SWAGGERTY AND JOHN VANCE?
noel troll 8/26/08
Hi Noel,
I did some checking last night and did find a Benjamin Strickler b. Arkansas (White) living in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory in 1900 and 1910.
His wife was listed as "Maggie" Strickler and she was listed as Indian.On the 1900 census, Maggie and her three children are listed on the Indian Census Data sheet.She is listed as being 3/4s and the kids as 7/8s Indian(this would be wrong as the bottom number doubles and the top number stays the same, therefore, Maggie's children were only 3/8s Indian...they were 1 point from being 1/4 Indian blood). I kept a copy of the 1900 census and I will be glad to send it to you.
Living next door to Maggie and Benjamin in 1900 is an Indian family named Caldwell.I did find a Maggie Caldwell living with her parents (who were both born in Georgia) in Talladega, Arkansas in 1880.It appears that everyone was Indian with maybe one person listed as White.
Yet, when I looked on the Rootsweb trees, Maggie is stated as being Margaret Downing but I didn't find a Downing family in 1880.
I don't have ANY information on your great-grandparents.Would you mind sharing your data with me?You can send it to my email
tawquish at yahoo dot com.
Also, apparently, I have some children missing in the William Jasper Vance family.I took my information from census records... this is who I have:
Elias L. C. ~ P. A. (f) who apparently died before 1880 ~ John Eldridge ~ Sydney Adeline ~ Mary Elizabeth "Polly" ~ Julius (who is listed as Juby Q or O on the 1880 census) ~ Hiram M. and William H. Apparently I am missing Sarah L. and Hannah E....I don't have a Minnie either.
I lived in Tulsa for about 10 years...before my interest in genealogy...I sure wish I knew then what I "think" I know now.My sister and I had a "hobby" of getting in our car and driving all over Oklahoma and western Arkansas looking through old cemeteries and antique stores.I probably found my relatives but didn't know it.
When you were at the museum, did you see any information about the Choates?They are one of my main family lines.I believe my 3x great-grandfather is buried some where around the Tallequah area.His name was Ira Ellis Choate.Silas Choate was his uncle he brought his family into Arkansas before the Trail of Tears but went back east and came back to Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears with the rest of the Cherokee peoples.
Berlene