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Author: mahard
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I have researched Ignatius Chisholm and his family for many years. He was a white man who lived among the Cherokees and based on the fragments of surviving records, mainly connected to enrollments and payments for Cherokee lands, he had children by a least three Cherokee women. The first is known only as the sister of Corn Tassel, a Cherokee man who died without heirs about 1837. She had three living children in 1837: Jesse, John and William. We also know Ignatius had a daughter Martha born c1812 by Lucretia Parris; this is their only child we know of from that union. Then we find three other children: Nelson, Nick and George who are believed to be the children of a Martha Rogers. There were several Rogers families in the Cherokee tribe and it is not clear whether this identification is correct or who her kin were. As to your ancestor Pernicia, I have not found her name in any of the records or in the enrollment documents for the Cherokee Tribe. The name Chisholm i!
s fairly common and there were several Chisholm families in Tennessee and the frontier. I was not able to find an obvious match in a quick search of ancestry.com. Someone on line lists her in Ft. Smith in 1863, and lists Ignatius as her father and Isom Perry as her husband, but there is not documentation provided. I would recommend that you not use ancestry trees without documentation as they are more often wrong than right. Instead I would look for records. This woman married a Hugh Griffin in 1850 in Polk County, Arkansas and if there is a record for this women there, I would start with those county records and conduct a search. If she is living in the white world, it makes it less likely she was a Cherokee or Ignatius' daughter.
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