Ancestry/Genealogy

I happened to see your post.

Arkansas was the first "dumping ground" as I call it for the first Cherokee that agreed to move from Georgia to the "new lands" in the west and this was about 1820 or so or even before that time.

Many of these Cherokees, aka "The Old Settlers" (aka the Keetoowah) went to Arkansas to settle with Ft. Smith being their new "headquarters" as it is today.

These same Cherokee were said to be rather well off mixed bloods and many of them held slaves and the slaves went with them when they were removed to Arkansas and later to Oklahoma Territories.

If you read the old census Arkansas lists, you might find the word "Allotment" in the records. These were plots allotted to those that were removed or likely by any other hook or crook of that day to get an allotment.

I too am likely part Choctaw as I have many relatives that were in Leake, Mississippi where many Choctaw even today can be found

Confused yet?

Welcome to "The Club" so to speak.

Best of luck w/your research!

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