Was told that my grandfather Ananias Hinton was a full blood Cherokee Indian. My mother is said to be his only daughter. I would like to get more information about him. From my understanding he last lived in St. Louis Mo.
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There isn’t enough info to narrow this fellow down. At this point, the only thing researchers could do is a simple query for that exact name and maybe keyword “Missouri” or “St. Louis” for the location. But, in that case, it only brings back a couple of males from different generations and associated with Mississippi. They are listed as Black. However, your query cannot be verified because there is no date range (dob and death). It also doesn’t give spouse or child name to help confirm his identity..
So, you’d have to include more details to really get started.
However, if you are claiming a fullblood Cherokee grandfather, there is some context that could be highlighted. There were no full blood families with the surname Hinton on the Dawes Roll, which was closed in 1907. That represents a snapshot in time, although it is not an exhaustive list of all surnames that Cherokee indivduals have ever had since early period of contact until present. But, it represents the overall database of surnames that are associated with Cherokee citizens living in Cherokee Nation in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That is very important to understand! In other words, this will represent the main surnames associated with the population at that time period. There was only one family cluster with that name, and it represented a Cherokee woman of 3/8 blood degree who was married to a White man with the name Hinton (her maiden name was Nave). There are no other Cherokees with the surname. And it is not a name associated with any full blood family. So, this leaves several possibilities. One is that the individual was not a full blood or, two, they came from a full blood community and changed their last name to Hinton subsequent to 1907. That is highly improbable, that it would really be considered highly doubtful.
There were no Eastern Cherokees enumerated on the Baker Roll of 1924 with that surname either. It not a name associated with any full blood Cherokee family.
I’d recommend posting with a bit of info to see if we can narrow this fellow down.