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hi i'm looking for infor on an annie victoria cheek who was borned in indian abt 1878...i have no other info on her parents...she married hiram jackson rose an lived in south dakota an died there...would love to find any thing about her parents or brothers an sisters...thanks in advance Rosa...
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Greetings, Jody
This is one of those very interesting mysteries. For the Layman side of the family, have a look at this tree: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ddoty4526&id=I2405
I have not verified the information but this tree owner lists her sources and documentation. I always verify others' work myself, if I can, but it is certainly a good place to start and the documentation is pretty impressive. A query to Donna would certainly be well worth your time.
As far as Jesse Cheek, that's another story. In the Cherokee records I have access to, I don't find a Jesse Cheek. Does that mean he wasn't Cherokee? No, it just means he wasn't listed on any of the rolls. If he was born in TN as the census indicates for Delilah's children, he certainly could be Cherokee. He would have been born before the Trail of Tears and may have been among those who were able to avoid the Removals, but the price was giving up his identity and living as white. What a sad time that was!
The curious thing about it, is that I can track Delilah in the census, but Jesse is NEVER in her household although she adds children who bear the name Cheek. She shows as widowed in 1900, but at her age - 78 - that was the norm not the exception. This brings to mind a case I have been researching among the Cherokee Old Settlers in AR. There is a Cherokee lady that adds children, but never has a husband at home on the census. Her descendants gave the name of the man who was supposed to be her husband and they appear on the Dawes Roll. He is white, although there are branches of his very prominent family that are intermarried with the Cherokee. He is married to another woman and has children by her in Texas where he appears in the census but not so far away (they are also Cherokee and on the Dawes Roll), and within the areas known to be Cherokee dwelling places. The conclusion is he had two wives - not uncommon as we might think in Cherokee culture of the time and, to!
o, there was often a white family and a Cherokee family and they knew about each other. The Cherokee marriage was not recognized as a "legal" marriage in that case, so the law simply considered him as having a mistress. If he lived within the bounds of Cherokee Nation, which he did not until later on, US law didn't apply.
This is a possibility with your Jesse. I find Jesse Cheeks in TN, not too far from Delilah, but none with her. Do you have any other information on him at all? Even if it seems silly or unlikely, most family stories contain a grain of truth somewhere. Some of the most outlandish are even true! I've found some in my family I was dead sure were lies and they turned out to be absolutely true. Egg on MY face!
What is your source for Jesse's name? Is there a possibility it could have been misread? I couldn't find the marriage in Marshall Co., AL. Could it have been Marshall Co., TN?
I have census records I can share with you. Please contact me privately and I will send them to you. I can do transcriptions for posting on line, but I can't post the sheets.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Susan
A Cheek mystery solved?
The MO death certificate for Charity Roetta CHEEK, wife of Thomas W SHELLEY,
gave her parents as Mayburn CHEEK and Candace ALLEN. Mayburn and Candace
married in late 1847 in Orange county, NC and moved from there to Clinton co KY in
about 1850. Charity's birth date was given as 8 Oct 1855. I could not find
any CHEEK birth records at Clinton county with which to verify that. The
closest corroboration I have is the 1860 census record from Clinton county which
lists Mayburn and Candace with Beaufort (Alexander B.) CHEEK (b. May 1849 in
NC), James CHEEK (b. 8 May 1851 in KY) and Sarah C CHEEK (b. abt 1853 in KY).
There was also John CHEEK (b. abt 1846 in NC), who might have been James
CHEEK's half brother.
The Sarah C CHEEK listed in the 1860 census might have been Charity CHEEK.
Mayburn's brother, Willis CHEEK, also from NC, was living at the time with the
Andrew (Drewry) and Rebecca ALLEN family, also in Clinton county. It is not
yet known whether that ALLEN family was related to the family of Candace ALLEN.
Drewry and Rebecca ALLEN had a daughter named Charity, and so Sarah's middle
name might also have been Charity. I was told recently by someone
researching that family that when Sidney ALLEN, son of Charity ALLEN was married in
Clinton county, he gave his mother's name as Charity R ALLEN, which is an
interesting coincidence. I don't know what the R in her name stands for.
I can find no record of a Charity CHEEK in the 1860 or 1870 census to fit the
family data, and no record of a Sarah Cheek in 1870. A census search of all
Kentucky-born females aged 10-19 in 1870 turned up no one whose name fits into
the family in any fashion, so I don't know where Charity was in 1870.
Mayburn CHEEK had died by then, and his widow, Candace was on the farm in Clinton
county with Bufort (age 20), James (age 17, who would be married the following
year to Elizabeth Jane SMITH) and Walter (age 16, CHEEK origin unknown).
Although Charity's location at that time is not known, she turns up in 1880 married
to Thomas W SHELLEY. The two were living on his mother's farm in Clinton
county, along with their four children. Based on birth years calculated from
reported ages of the children, the couple apparently married about 1873; I could
not find record of that in Clinton county.
Thomas W SHELLEY and his parents (Campbell SHELLEY and Sara ASHINHURST) were
all born in Clinton county, KY. There were quite a few SHELLEY families and
they were in the county for quite a long time. Thomas SHELLEY and his brother
Lewis each moved their families from there to Greene county, MO. Thomas and
Charity moved between 1880 and 1883. Meanwhile, the James M CHEEK family made
its way across Kentucky. James and Elizabeth were still in Clinton county, KY
in 1880; however, John M CHEEK (aka Mervin, aka Jasper or "Jap") was born 29
Nov 1881 in Glasgow, Barren county, KY. Ira CHEEK was born 9 Jan 1883 in
Bowling Green, which is in Warren county, KY, close to Mammoth Cave.
The 1890-91 city directory for Springfield shows both James CHEEK and Thomas
SHELLEY in Cass township of Green county as renters. This suggests they were
farming together and that the James M CHEEK family had crossed into Missouri
and joined up with their SHELLEY in-laws by then, sometime before the birth of
James R CHEEK (17 Oct 1887) in that same township of Greene county, MO. In
1900 the SHELLEY family was farming in Murray township of Greene county. The
CHEEK family had by then moved to Indian Territory. Thomas and Charity's son,
Edwin E SHELLEY (aka Eldred, b. 1 April 1882 in Green county) was then 18. In
1910 Charity is listed in the Greene county census as Roetta SHELLEY. She
then reported six of ten children living. Eldred SHELLEY married about 1910, to
Cordelia HAYNIE. They had three children that I know of, the eldest of who
was Edwin SHELLEY.
Charity CHEEK SHELLEY died 18 Feb, 1937 in Cave Springs (northwest of
Springfield). Her husband Thomas SHELLEY died there 1 Sep, 1932.
Kevin Kelly
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Hi Susan;
I do not belive that we have spoken. I would love to here from you. I know the blood line is real, but I also know not many will talk about it so my research into my gr-gr grandmother Jane Cheek Lemon, Layman side of the family is slow.
I am very confused at this piont because Jesse Cheek and Delilah Walters Cheek my gr-gr-gr-grandparents also have a son named Joseph that had son named Jesse . I know Jesse and Delilah were married 1843 in Marshall Co Alabama and there first born is my gr-gr-grandmother, and Jesse was said to be Cherokee. Thanks Jody
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Dear everyone, I am descended from a Peter Chick/cheek who was a convict transported to Australia in 1825. All I know of him is that he was a native of the Isle of Wight and was born around 1800 - 1804.
Can anyone link him up with any of their families?
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Hi, Jody!
Did we ever talk about this? I don't recall, must be having a Teflon moment!
Susan
Hello, -- If you mean the (William & Martha Stuart Cheek) grandparents of
Richard Bond Cheek, yes, I have a bit about them ... go to my rootsweb site here
for more info:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=pilgrim2press ... my notes indicate that he (William Cheek) may be part of the George
Cheek family of Front Royal, Virginia; later of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County,
Indiana, but I have no proof of this (just a clue to myself to look there
further).
Thanks, Jeffrey L. Williams
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Does anyone have any information about William Cheek who married Martha
Stuart. They lived in Dearborn County, Indiana around 1800
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Surnames: cheek, stuart, merchant, rush, hill
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Does anyone have any information about William Cheek who married Martha Stuart. They lived in Dearborn County, Indiana
Around 1800
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CHEEK_Johnnie_A_1917-1992.JPG
I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery - Everlasting Love Section, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records.
This is one of the 119,942 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com
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Found on the front page of the Thursday, January 10, 1929 edition of The Yadkin Ripple (Yadkin Co., NC):
"William Cheek Dead
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William Cheek, aged 63, died at his home at Cycle December 31st, following an illness of a few days with pneumonia. The funeral and interment was at Swan Creek church Jan. 1.
The deceased was born in Yadkin County and is survived by the widow and eight children. Four brothers and one sister also survives."
Please note I am not related to this family and have no other information about them.