Does it have to cost a fortune to get info?
My GG Grandmothers parents where born in Georgia USA, (Cherokee) 1810 unkown McKay and 1815 Susan McKay they had a daughter my GGrandmother Mary Elizabeth McKay birth about 1834. She first married a Dodson, and then my G Grandfather Chris Portherfield. I have found Elizabeth Dodson and some of the children ( Dodsons) on some of the rolls but not my Grandfather. It seewms impossible to get the info. I want to know her decendents and at 62 feel time is running out. I thought about trying to go to Georgia to some of the centers there. I know Chris was in Carroll and Paulding counties at some time. I am on Social secutiry and have so little to let go of. Does anyone have any suggestions that might help? They moved to Arkansas whem Mary Elizabeth was a child. It seems a lot of them did.
Thanks, Carolyn Stuart
Many Cherokee people immigrated to Western Arkansas around 1817. They were given an area by the federal government that had belonged to the Osage Tribe. One of the counties they went to was Lovely County; Lovely county had been part of Washington County Arkansas, but was absorbed by Oklahoma when the final state lines were drawn. Adair County Oklahoma was one of the counties next to the OK/AR border, also Sequoyah County. If your folks stayed in Arkansas, they might not be on the final Dawes Roll, but they might be on the 1817 Emigration Roll.
Found this: Mary Elizabeth McKay Dodson, b. Jul 1831 Georgia and d. 1900 AR
She married Christopher Porterfield in Hempstead, AR Mar. 20th, 1875 at the age of 43. Christopher Porterfield was born 1822 Carroll, Georgia, and d. 1889 Hempstead, AR They had a son, Joseph Christopher Porterfield, b.1879 Patmos, Hempstead, AR; he d.1961 Spring Hill, Hempstead, AR Joseph married Mamie Bell Meadows, b. 1889 Powder Springs, Paulding, GA and d. 1989 Hope, Hempstead, AR They had 5 children.