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Looking for information on possible Cherokee relatives. Surname of Ridenhour, Fredrick, Sexton, West. Areas are Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Alabama.

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  1. What family line are you thinking connects back to the Cherokee community?

    Based on details included in your query, it appears that you are looking at the families of James Henry Fredrick (son of General Perry Frederick and Mary Sexton) who married a Mattie Ray Ridenhour (daughter of John Ridenhour and Mary West).

    These individuals do not appear to have any connection with the Cherokee people.

    James was born in Arkansas. He was living in that state in 1900, and then moved to Oklahoma before 1920. They were White settlers. His father General Perry Frederick was born in MO in 1854, to John Fredrick and Harriet Curry. He married Mary “Polly” Jane Sexton in Washington County, Arkansas in 1879. Polly was born in 1858 to Joel and Delilah Sexton.

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=FRE&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=38&GScntry=4&GSsr=481&GRid=47121101&

    Mattie Ray Ridenhour was born in 1890 in Payne County, Oklahoma which was one of the main the epicenters of White settlement into Indian Territory/Oklahoma in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Her parents were John Simeon Ridenhour and Mary Elizabeth West. John was born in Cabarrus County, NC in 1849. John’s parents, Nicholas Ridenhour and Sarah Miller, were White settlers. He moved from NC to Illinois sometime before 1860, then into Arkansas by the late 1870s, and Oklahoma in the 1890s.

    Mary Elizabeth West was the daughter of George West and Sarah McCann. They were White settlers to Illinois. Mary’s parents were married in Madison County, IL, in 1830. George West’s father, Alexander, died in Bond County (formed out of Madison), Illinois in 1823. They were very early settlers, actually.

    An 1830 Census of Madison county lists Alexander West along with two Johns and a William. The only Denny on this page is a Walter Denny. A 1912 History of Madison County book lists early settlers to the area, and state that Walter Denny came in about 1808, and that these men were mostly from Kentucky and Tennessee.

    Most of these lines can be traced back to early colonial settlements in VA, the Carolinas and Pennsylvania. They seem to have moved west along the upper midwest, then into Missouri and Arkansas, and then into Oklahoma during Land Rush days.

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=114328295&ref=acom

    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smith/reut.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabarrus_County,_North_Carolina

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64818451

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=RID&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=16&GScntry=4&GSsr=641&GRid=69928938&

    http://genealogytrails.com/ill/madison/1830censusindex.html

    https://books.google.com/books?id=Ox84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA553&lpg=PA553&dq=%22walter+denny%22+madison+county+illinois+denny&source=bl&ots=ahtoBdQzYZ&sig=p6SHGlHOvNWiIkFDMyGOHc7DaC4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIzIy128_JAhXBej4KHQqMA1AQ6AEIOjAG#v=onepage&q=%22walter%20denny%22%20madison%20county%20illinois%20denny&f=false

    http://genealogytrails.com/ill/bond/willabstracts.html

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