Looking for any information on Elizabeth Wilkerson Jones. She and her sons were apparently admitted to the Cherokee nation from a congressional act. I cannot locate her number anywhere. She was located lastly in northwest Arkansas, but roots are in the Carolinas. She is my 4th great grandmother, her son John Jones was my 3rd great grandfather. (northwest ark). Thanks.
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Hello, There was an Elizabeth Wilkerson 1766-1839 who was an Old Settler. She was the daughter of Edward Wilkerson and Mollie Welch (Mollie 1725-1806, a Cherokee). Elizabeth married a white man named Thomas Jones. They were given a reserve in Arkansas. It’s well documented. Elizabeth and Thomas Jones had a son Drury, and a son John I believe, among others. They had a daughter Elizabeth and a daughter Mary who married a Choctaw Blevins. Thomas and Elizabeth were harassed terribly by their white neighbors. This family intermarried with the Latta’s and the Duncan’s. This may be your family. I am related to this family, although I haven’t been able to figure out how. Karen
An affidavit of 7 April 1831, filed in Alabama’s Jackson County, asserted that “Thomas Jones Junr., Elizabeth Jones, David Jones, James Jones, John Jones, and Drury Jones” had sold their land (no date cited) to one William D. Gains—land described as the Thomas Jones Reservation on Jones’s Creek, Jackson County.5
An article separating this Cherokee family from another Jones family
Source: https://www.evidenceexplained.com/content/quicklesson-7-family-lore-and-indian-princesses
By 1830, the Cherokee Joneses had removed to Western Arkansas, the first Indian Territory. The protracted legal claims they waged against the U.S. over the next fifteen years tell their heart-wrenching story. In the words of the eldest son Drury:20
“First Day of April 1845
“The reservation entered by my father Thomas Jones for my mother Elizabeth was in Jackson County. My father was a white man and my mother a native Cherokee—my mother and her family had been living in the place [of] the reservation between three and four years before the treaty of 1817. … My mother had seven children at the time of the Treaty—five of them lived with her, the other two, James Jones and myself, were both married … and settled to ourselves. …
“Several years after the treaty … several white men … were in the habit of coming to Mother’s house and tormenting her in every way they could devise. They invariably appeared at night and would stone the house, in some instances broke in the doors and windows with heavy rocks. One time … a stone was thrown which struck my father upon the face and broke his jawbone. At another time they threw the grindstone down the chimney.
“These attacks were very frequent, sometimes twice and three times a week and becoming more harassing. … Father at last came to the conclusion that it was impossible for them to live upon the reservation and him and mother very reluctantly left it and removed into the Cherokee Nation across the river about five or six miles distant.21
“About two years after he left the reservation, father died, when absent from home in a visit to the Chickasaw Nation. My mother continued to reside upon that place until she emigrated to this country in the year 1831 or 1832 and died six years ago next August.” 22
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