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Author: JAYMEDINC
Surnames: Caldwell, Sevier, Pauley
Classification: queries
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I was just reading and old family tree passed down to me in 2003 that was typed in 1961
and passed down to me by Ruby Evelyn (Medford) Houser. It says John Caldwell and Mary
Severe (half Indian, Choctaw tribe) were the parents of Peggy Caldwell who was married to
Andrew Pauley.
But I had listed in my tree Margaret E. Caldwell, spouse of Andrew B. Pauley, as the
daughter of Andrew Jackson Caldwell and Francina Serena Hardwick. I had Andrew
Jackson's mother listed as Unknown Sevier and no father listed. So I am guessing that
Unknown Sevier is the above mentioned Mary Severe. Her note as being half indian would
match up with the percentage of "indian" that Margaret Pauley is listed as
below.
From Cherokee by Blood: Volume 4, Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry
in the US Court of Claims 1906-1910 (Bowie, Md, Heritage Books, 2006):
"
James Conway Pauley states: "that he is 75 years of age. I claim my Indian descent
through my mother [Margaret Caldwell Pauley]. My father [Andrew Pauley] was a full blooded
white man. My wife is a white woman. My mother, I think, was born in Arkansas. She went to
Tenn. before I can recollect. She moved back to Arkansas when I was a boy, in Little River
Co. She died there. She was about 65 when she died. I nor my mother never lived with the
Indians as a member of the tribe. My mother claimed to be 1/8 Cherokee Indian. I am
recognized as a white man in the community. I don't know whether I or my mother were
ever on any rolls. I nor she never received anything from the government by reason of our
Indian blood. I did not make application to the Dawes Commission because I did not know
anything about it."
In another document that was filled out by Frannie Pauley William (she was the only child
of the second marriage of James Conway Pauley), she states that: "I get my Indian
blood from my Father [James Conway Pauley] and he gets it from his mother [Margaret
Caldwell Pauley] her maiden name was Caldwell. She gets her Indian blood from her father
Andrew Caldwell and he gets his from his Mother whose maiden name was Sevier, her father
was a fuill Blood Indian."
Claim rejected.
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