Thanks Sharon for the information. I have just had time to clance over it but already
see something that maybe you can help me with or maybe Jane.
What i have goes is something like this:
Unk Caldwell married to Unk Sevier - that is it for that generation
Andrew Caldwell married to Margaret Session - nothing else on that generation
Andrew Jackson Caldwell married to Francina "Sirena" Hardwick and I have dates,
children and their dates etc. and on forward, I am sure I am missing information here and
there. I have a direct line and am missing the small branches that branch off.
Does anyone have information on the first two generation I have here. Also when I
followed the line from the information below I noticed that Andrew Caldwell and Margaret
Session generation was missing, or actually skipped. Need someone to set me straight on
this. Many thanks. Flo in Texas
Sharon <sharoner(a)cableaz.com> wrote:
Jane & Flo:
To give you some background. Fannie Williams is the granddaughter of Andrew
Pauley and Margaret Caldwell. Margaret was a brother to James Douglas
Caldwell.
This is from the Cherokee By Blood Volume 4
#199 FANNIE WILLIAMS and 5 children, Red River, Tex. Rejected.
Neither applicant nor ancestor was enrolled. Does not establish fact of
descent from a person who was a party to the Treaties of 1835-6 and 1846.
Misc. Test p. 2109
"That I am 75 years of age. I claim my Indian descent through my mother.
My father 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. Only one of my
children has filed application to participate in this fund. I have other
children." Signed James C. "X" Pauley, Clarksville, Tex., Aug 21, 1908.
EXCEPTION CASE 8199. Fannie Williams & 5 children, R F D #2, Annona, Tex.
Rejected. Total number of exceptions filed in this group.---3. Original
recommendation renewed.
James C. Pauley was my great grandfather. Fannie Williams was from the
second marriage of James C. Pauley and Henrietta Sessions.
In a letter Fannie William wrote to the Indian Office Eastern Cherokees
1908, application no. 8199.
Dear Sir:
In regard to my Parents & Grand Parents Being Enrolled.
My parents were never enrolled they never had the opportunity. My Mother did
not have any Indian Blood in her I get my Indian Blood from my Father & he
gets it from his Mother her maiden name was Caldwell. She gets her Indian
Blood from her Father Andrew Caldwell and he get his from his Mother whose
maiden name was Sevier, her Father was a full Blood Indian and She was my
Great Great Grandmother. Also My Great Grandmother whose maiden name was
(the first name is so faded I can't read it SR) Hardwick had Indian Blood in
her. If my Grand Parents were ever enrolled I don't know anything about it,
they may have been, but don't think they ever were. I can prove by living
witnesses that I have Indian Blood and if there is anything more required of
me would like to know in time. I want to do all I can for I ceartainly have
a Right to Share in the Eastern Cherokee fund.
Your
Respectfully
(Mrs.)
Fannie Williams
Annona(?)
P.O.
R.F.D.no.
2 Box 9
Red
River Co., Texas
In another letter Fannie Williams writes that her Great Great Grandmother's
maiden name was Sevier and her father was a Full Blood Indian.
If we can believe what was written in these letters. The Indian Blood would
have come from Andrew Caldwell's wife Francina Hardwick and his mother who's
maiden name was Sevier. So far I haven't found any records for Andrew's
parents.
This is all I have concerning the Caldwell's having Indian Blood.
Sharon Reinhardt
Wickenburg, AZ.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Foley"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: Newton Dudlley Caldwell
Newton Dudley Caldwell s/o James Douglas Caldwell s/o Andrew Jackson
Caldwell of Hempstead and later Howard Co., AR was born January 19, 1841 at
Buck Range. Died December 30, 1918 at Goodwater, OK. He is buried at
Philadelphia Cemetery at same place. His wife however was Lucy Ann D.
Fontaine buried at Buck Range.
My question is: How do I find out the names of the JP's in Hempstead and
Howard Co.'s back in late 1800's and erly 1900's? I believe I saw an
article before my great aunt died that said he was a JP. In order for
someone to become a Justice of the Peace I would think they would have to
read and write. However, some of his children, my great grandfather was one
of them, that could not read or write. I don't understand that logic.
Also, another mystery I would like to figure out is why he left Buck Range.
It is true he had a child or two over in McCurtain Co., OK which is the
Goodwater area. He also had a long pigtail which leads us to believe that
there was indian in the family. It was cut off sometime before he was
buried. One of my cousins has it in a trunk. Newton's son, Joseph William
Caldwell, my great grandfather finally admitted before he died that there
was indian in the Caldwell line. His brother Matthew Fontaine Caldwell was
listed on the indian rolls. Matthew Fontaine Caldwell was the father to
Benny "Blanch" Ivy Caldwell who married Buck Barrow of Bonnie and Clyde
fame.
Any help is appreciated.
Jane Foley
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