I am searching for information on my Cherokee heritage. I was adopted and only have names with very little information. I do know that my great-grandfather was a chief on a reservation. His name was Benjemin Osborne. My grandmother, his daughter, was L. Iola Osborne who lived on the reservation also. Both were full blooded Cherokee, I have knoe idea which reservation or how to find out. She married an Irish man in Florence, SC in 1919. If anyone can give me any information on how to go about becoming part of the Cherokee nation I would greatly appreciate it.
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Ila Osborne was the daughter of Benjamin and Byrene (Hicks) Osborne. They were not full-blood Cherokee, and there is no evidence they were of any degree of Cherokee ancestry. They were standard Southern White Americans.
These families (and some intermarried lines) did not live on a Cherokee reservation and had no connection to a tribal nation. They were White colonial settlers that moved in from early European settlements in VA and parts north, NC, then into SC after receiving land bounty or establishing homesteads there.
Byrene was the daughter of James Hicks (1847-1918) and Caroline Filyaw (1848 – 1910). Byrene was born in Florence County, SC, in 1884.
Caroline was the daughter of Josiah and Rebecca (Lee) Filyaw.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90037697&ref=acom
James was the son of William Gabriel Hicks (1810 – 1864) and Mary McAllister (1817 – UNK).
W. G. served in the Civil War (died in 1864 in VA) and his father, Jesse, was a Revolutionary War veteran, who received bounty land in SC for his service. Jesse was from England. See: 1951 Sons of American Revolution application for Wilbur Boyd Brown.
Benjamin Osborne was the son of Elijah Calvin Osborne (1841 – UNK) and Mary Elizabeth Filyaw (1846 – 1925).
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rkprivette&id=I139556
Osiyo (hello in Cherokee). My name is Justin. First of all, I had happened on this page and noticed that you are trying to receive helpful information on your family Cherokee heritage and as a Cherokee people, we have one of the most beautiful, if not, the most beautiful history, language, culture, traditions, roots, ways of life, religion and practices of anywhere worldwide. Second of all, let me tell you that you start tracing your family Genealogy through documentations like I did about 4 years ago. May I suggest that the best family genealogy site for you and anyone else to trace your family genealogy and document everything is MyHeritage.com ($24/month), but as you do your family genealogy research and study, may I also point out that it is a good idea as you research, to google and research your findings to see if the documented records match up and for Cherokee families like you and I, also with your family genealogy research and study, the other best sites to go to is Oklahoma Historical Society and CherokeeRoots.com to see if your are listed on the Dawes Rolls. My friend, I have done all of these things myself for between 4 and 5 years and I have found so of my family on the Dawes Rolls and I have also found that many of my families have died on the “Trail of Tears “. Between my parents, I am three quarter Cherokee (75%), my father is full blood Cherokee and my mother is half Cherokee.