The Dawes Roll (Final Rolls) is a list of those members of the Five Civilized Tribes who removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the 1800’s and were living there during the period of 1898-1914. If your Cherokee ancestor was in the East then you should use the Guion Miller Roll taken in 1906, or the Baker Roll taken in 1924. The Baker Roll is considered the final roll for the Eastern Cherokee Tribe.
If your ancestor was not living in Indian Territory during 1898-1914, they will not be listed on the Dawes Roll!!
Only those Indians who RECEIVED LAND under the provisions of the Dawes Act are listed. It also lists those Freedmen who received land allotments as provided for in the Dawes Act. These pages can be searched to discover the enrollee’s name, age, sex, blood degree, type, census card number and roll number. Check the headings in each column. Type denotes whether the record is from a Dawes card.
Dawes is a list of those members of the Five Civilized Tribes who removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the 1800’s and were living there during the above dates.
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The search below will allow you to find your ancestor in the Dawes Rolls. A partial search is allowed in the name fields, card and roll require exact matches. I suggest you start with first and last name, and then when you find a match you want to further investigate, click on the card link and that will show you the remaining family members who appear on the card with the individual.
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The following letter guide was furnished by the National Archives. These letters can appear both on Type and Card number.
| A – Adopted AD- Adopted Delaware BB – By Blood D – Doubtful or denied F – Freedman FD – Freedman, doubtful or denied FM – Freedman, minor | FRR – Freedman, rejected IW – Intermarried White MCR – Mississippi Choctaw Rejected NR – Not Registered, Non Resident O – Owner – at one time a slave OS – Old Series* Old Settler P – Parent |
* Old Series – At one time this person had another card, and the information was transferred to a new card.
I am trying to find the parents of my great great grandmother, Sarah Hembree. She was born in Roane County, Tennessee (abt. 1869) to Cherokee parents. Her name was originally “Seneca”. Name of biological mother and father are unknown. Sarah’s father died when she was a baby and her mother remarried a white man by the name of Homer Hembree (Possibly spelled Hembrey or Emory). Homer changed her name from Seneca to Sarah Hembree. What I do know for a fact is that Sarah married Rufus B. Strickland (sometimes spelled Stricklan) and had 8 children; Julie Wilma, Samual Beecher, Luella, Harry E, Rufus B. Jr., Walter, Callie, and Hattie Matilda.
I can’t find any information on Homer. All I find when I search up Sarah’s name are two different sets of parents that people have listed on their public Ancestry trees. It seems there were two Sarah Hembree’s living in Roane County at the same time, so it has caused some confusion online. The first set of names of the parents is Isaac Newton Hembree & Menerva Carter and and the second set is William Hembree & Elizabeth Lowery. I don’t know which ones would be correct, or if there is even any relation at all.
I have questions; where did you get the information that Sara’s parents were Cherokee? How do you know her name was originally ‘Seneca’ and changed to ‘Sarah’? Where are you getting the story about her father dying and her mother remarrying ‘Homer Hembree” Where are you getting the name ‘Homer Hembree’ from? I see no one in that area at that tie by that name.
Be aware that Cherokee Nation were removed from their homelands in the 1830s to Indian Territory (now Okahoma). The Eastern Band of Cherokee are descended primarily from about 800 Cherokees living along the remote Oconaluftee River who were not forcibly subjected to forced removal to Indian Territory These Cherokee were to give up tribal Cherokee citizenship and to assimilate. Their descendants reorganized in the 20th century and gained federal recognition as a tribe known as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. These people are much further east from where you are talking about. The Cherokee had no presense in Roane County, Tennessee in the 1800s.
I am searching my 3rd great grand father. I was told that he was full blood cherokee. His name was John Kay. I’m thinking he may have changed his name to sound more American. He was born in North Carolina in 1844. There are no records on him. HELLLLLP
Not much info on John Kay. The 1870 census records wold provide some important information, but it seems to be missing. I scoured the 1870 census and can not find the family. In the 1880 census John’s wife (Margret) and two children (Alonzo and Josie) are living with Margret’s mom (Cyntha Nations). The nference is that Margret is widowed.
It should be noted that the Cherokee people were removed from their homelands in the late 1830s and sent to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). John Kay was born in South Carolina in the 1840s and died there between 1873 and 1880. He was not Cherokee. He may have had Cherokee ancestry, but that can’t be told by the existing records. He won’t be on any Tribal census, because he never lived with the Cherokee. Who told you he was “full blood Cherokee”? Are we talking about family lore? Family lore is usually unreliable. That being said, I’ve seen photos of his two children, Alonzo and Josie, and although they are allways listed as white on U.S. census records, they look like they may have Native ancestry. Nothing you can hang your hat on, however. I suggest you take a DNA test, if you haven’t already done so, to see if you have Native ancestry.
I took a DNA test through Ancestry and asked then about native DNA and they told me that they have no way of testing for native Ancestry
The entire side has said that we are cherokee and john kay was from the wolf clan
Without any sort of paper trail, how would anyone alive today know an Ancestor from 150 years ago was Cherokee, let alone what their clan was? And a DNA test most definitely will show Native ancestry. No one at Ancestry would tell you otherwise. I take that to mean that no Native ancestry showed up in your DNA test. That answers your question. If your 3rd Great Grandparent was Native, it would show up in a DNA test around 1/32.
Trying to locate info on my great grandmother Alice Johnson, born 7/30/1876 in Columbus, TX.
Wondering how to discover her Native American heritage…. and mine.
I found a Alice Johnson Blodgett who was born in Columbus, TX in July around 1876. There is some conflicting data on the exact year. She married Joseph French Blodgett in December 1901 in New Hampshire and they had NINE children together. She died in Florida in December 1963, but is buried in Vermont. Why do you believe there is Native ancestry? I don’t see anything to suggest it. Have you taken a DNA test? Her father was James Mark Johnson. He was born in Kentucky in 1835. He somehow found himself in Texas via Ohio and Kansas and married Frances (Fanny) Jane Busby (born in 1854 in Pine Grove, Texas). It appears James died not long after Alice’s birth and Fanny remaried in the mid 1880s to Stephen Dustin in New Hampshire. No idea how they ended up in New Hampshire. James Mark Johnson’s parentage were born in Virginia in the latter 1700s. Fanny Busby’s parentage were born in South Carolina and Tennessee. Everyone is listed on U.S. census and listed as ‘white’.
You…. Are my hero of the day!!!
Thank you!!
That is her!!!
Just something my mother once said to me that would lead me to believe Native American heritage.
If it’s not there, it’s not there.
Thank you so very much for your time today!!
Trying to find my great grandma Laura shaw who parents are Cherokee and left the Midwest on the wagon train for Puyallup washington and built shaw road also had great uncle named Frank shaw who kept the original wagon…
Laura Shaw’s parents were Chris and Mary Shaw. Not sure where these stories about Cherokee originated, but they were not Cherokee or Native at all. Chris Shaw was born in København, Denmark in 1856 or 1857. Mary Blow Shaw was born in South Dakota in 1869. Her ancestors lived in the midwest for a couple of generations, before that they were in New York and the UK before that. Chris was a a farmer, preacher and carpenter. Laura Maude Shaw was born in 1894 in Minnesota; within a few years after her birth, they moved to Eastonville, Colorado. Then in 1901, they emigrated to Puyallup. In 1912, Laura married Edwin Guy Clifford, who was born in Colorado in 1892.
I am trying to find info on my 8th great grandfather John Rainwater.. I was told he was part of the bird clan born in 1695 died in 1777 married to Mary Nicole Fussell..
John Rainwater was not Cherokee or Native. He was born in Virginia, before moving to North Carolina. His father, Robert Raynewater (the British spelling), was an immigrant from the United Kingdom.