My great grandfather Kenneth Trumble married Nancy Jennie/Jannie Starkey. He died around 1909. She remarried & is listed in Dawes Rolls married to Henry Bell with their children. Need paperwork trail to make the connection .
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Kenneth and Nancy were not Cherokee citizens, or enrolled under Dawes.
They were married in Beebe, (White County) Arkansas in 1908.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beebe,_Arkansas
The Dawes Rolls were closed in 1907. They were reopened for a brief amount of time in 1914 to allow in 312 individuals that were missed during the initial enumeration. However, Kenneth’s family was not Cherokee. There are no Trumbles listed on Dawes, or those with any related spelling. This family shows up in the 1900 Census in Indian Territory on the White schedule. Kenneth was born in Iowa about 1891, and his parents places of birth are given as Illinois and Indiana.
Kenneth and Nancy were married after the Rolls were closed.
Name: Kenney Trumbrell
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1891
Residence: Beebe, White, Arkansas
Spouse’s Name: Jennie Starkey
Spouse’s Gender: Female
Spouse’s Age: 16
Spouse’s Residence: Beebe, White, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 2 Aug 1908
Marriage License Date: 31 Jul 1908
Marriage County: White
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1024573
Nancy Jenny Starkey can be found living with her parents (George and Nancy) in 1900, in White County, Arkansas. She is found in 1910, listed as Gennie Trummels, and again living with her parents. At this point she is 17 and listed as a widow.
So, she would have remarried sometime after 1910.
There is only one Henry Bell listed on Dawes (#28129). This fellow was the son of a Cherokee father and a White mother (Ada Collins). He was born about 1886/7 in Georgia. His father was a re-admitted Cherokee (individuals, or descendants, that stayed in the east after Removal and came to Cherokee Nation in subsequent decades and re-applied for citizenship). Henry was admitted to citizenship on testimony and application of his father who was living in Indian Territory. This Henry did not reside with his father during Dawes enumeration in 1900. He is found living with his mother in Georgia, in 1900. And he is found again in 1910, same location (Georgia), age 23 years old. He was not married at that time. It appears he stayed in northern Georgia and southern Tennessee during his lifetime..
There is no paper trail leading to Dawes for this Kenneth Trumble and Nancy/Jenny Starkey, nor any children they may have had in their short relationship. If she remarried a man that was a tribal member at some point, then you’d have to search through that lineage only.