I know that Polly Bailey is my great grandmother. I know she is on the rolls. I have copies of her C.I.B. papers. I know she had several children and also claimed some of her children as Cherokee. But I don’t have the documents of how I am related to her. I also know that she was on the trail of tears. Her info: Polly Bailey ( Real name was Mary Hester Bailey), D.O.B:11/1855 Born in North Carolina,Death 1936 in Yancey Co. NC. Parents: John Aaron Bailey/ Elmira Bryant Bailey, Grandfather Yellow Jacket Bailey. Any info you can give I would appreciate!
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The Mary Hester Bailey you have listed here in your query was not on the Trail of Tears. That event was over by 1839, well before her birth in 1855. And she was also not p[art of the Cherokee community, in any event.
Her parents John and Elmira Bailey lived in and around Yancey County, NC. They had no connection to the Cherokee people. They were of European ancestry. Aaron died in him mid 30s, and Elmira moved back in with her parents, Allen and Sarah (Honeycutt) Bryant, for a while before marrying a man named Dayton/Deyton (various spellings).
Mary Hester’s grandfather, John Bailey, had a nickname “Yellow Jacket John” supposedly due to a quick temper and feisty nature. It was not an Indian name. He was a White settler that pushed for creation of northwestern NC counties, and help found White towns. He was not Cherokee.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51514411
There is only one Polly Bailey on the Dawes Roll, she was born in 1857 in Cherokee Nation (now Oklahoma) and her maiden name was Blackwood. There were no Mary Bailey listed either. There are no Bailey individuals listed on the Baker Roll of 1924.
There are a few trees on the web that have erroneously attached the Dawes Roll page for the Cherokee Polly (Blackwood) Bailey, to this Polly (Bailey) Deyton.
These were two different women. The one found on the Dawes Roll page was a fullblood Cherokee woman born in Cherokee Nation west (Oklahoma), while the other was a White woman that was descended from White pioneers that settled Yancey County, NC. This family is very well traced and found in the historical records. Even the wiki page for Yancey County mentions “Yellow Jacket” John Bailey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yancey_County,_North_Carolina
Further lineage can be found here (including Revolutionary War ancestors and relatives that fought in the French and Indian Wars, etc.):
http://www.myheritage.com/site-27552371/the-bailey-family-genealogy