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From: "Sylvia Jackson" <>
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Cherokee Dawes Roll
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:25:43 -0500
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Are you telling me to stop emailing to your site here? If so I will stop
this...thanks Sylvia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevia W Beverly" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [TXCem] Cherokee Dawes Roll


> Sylvia, you're a long way up there! and I don't envy you your weather...
> RE your unsoled problem --
> All too often people go by the 'high cheekbones' and 'looks like it.'
> Looks
> do not the Indian make. But a time line might prove helpful in solving
> your
> problem . placing all known information in this format will often trigger
> some idea on where to look, what needs to be done (census, etc.), or
> something else --
>
> 1801 Mar 24: Ephram Jackson b. in NC
>
> c. 1821: Ephram md. Elizabeth Black
>
> What is the first census you have them on? Can you pinpoint or guess a NC
> county?? If so, then a check of published county histories would be in
> order.
>
> ??? moves to Texas
>
> ??? dates of death
>
> buried in Smithwick Cemetery, Burnet Co TX
>
> "Several Children": You have given one,
>
> ?? date born?? Frank Bradford Jackson
>
> & Frank's son, Verne Riley Jackson
>
> b. ?? d. ?? bur in ?? Cemetery, Karnes City TX
>
> Who were the other children?
>
>
>
> I checked my copies of Jordan's "Cherokee by Blood" that gives an abstract
> of the Applications .. did not find any Ephram Jackson ---
>
>
>
> Trevia Wooster Beverly
>
> Houston, Texas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sylvia Jackson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [TXCem] Cherokee Dawes Roll
>
>
>> Hi from Mass, we were always told that Ephram Jackson was of indian
> heritage
>> but I contacted the courthouse and was told the courthouse had burned
>> down
>> with all the papers etc. so I couldn't go any further on this genealogy
>> quest which I'd been working on for "years." Ephram was born in North
>> Carolina March 24, 1801 and married a woman named Elizabeth Black c.1821,
>> both are buried at Smithwick cemetery in Burnet County TX. They had
> several
>> children and I was married to one of his offsprings a Verne Riley Jackson
>> Sr. whom was from So.Tx. Verne is buried in Karnes City Tx. I will
>> forever
>> remember his dad a Frank Bradford Jackson and he sure looked like an
> Indian
>> to me. High cheekbones and all. If you have any information I'd sure
>> appreciate it.
>> Thanks Sylvia J.Jackson Deerfield Mass
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Callie Waits" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:43 PM
>> Subject: [TXCem] Cherokee Dawes Roll
>>
>>
>> >I found this in the American Profile magazine and thought some of you
> might
>> >be interested.
>> > Callie
>> >
>> > OKLAHOMA
>> > Cherokee Genealogy Dawes roll Exhibit---- Park Hill, Feb 1 -April 21.
>> > Search for your ancestors among lists of Cherokee tribal members who
>> > lived in Indian Territory between 1898 and 1914 and learn why the Roll
> was
>> > created.Cherokee Heritage Center. phone number 918-456-6007
>> >
>> >
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