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BY LESLIE BARKER THOMAS

Cherokee Voluntary Immigrants is a

continuation of Working With The

Indians Prior To 1840 in the March

2013 newsletter. This is a

Transcription of 1832 Census of

Cherokee – Voluntary Emigrants

Transcription by Susan Dailey Johnson

of Pocola, Oklahoma in memory of

her sixth great-grandmother Catherine

“Katy” Teague Rogers Pettit,

Cherokee Nation Old Settler.

Cherokee Families that immigrated to

Arkansas in 1831/1832. Due to the

Treaty of 1828, chiefs and headmen

west of the Mississippi River

relinquished all claims to their claims

Wo rk in g W i t h T he I nd ia ns Pr io r To 1840 In this quarterly issue:

Working With The

Indians Prior To 1840

1-2

First Families Project:

Martin Luther Long

3-4

The Youngest Civil War

Veteran - Little David

5

In Focus: River Hill

Baptist Church

6

Family Research Corner 7

Last Quarter Highlights 7

Upcoming Events For

2013

8

Bulletin Board 9

The President’s Desk 9

New Books In The

Genealogy Room

10

First Families of Gilmer

County

10

Dedication 10

Part II: Civil War In

Gilmer County

11

The Gilmer County Genealogical Society, Inc. June 1, 2013 Volume 1, Issue 2

Cherokee: Portraits. Francis Drake, Indian History for

Young Folks. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912.

mountain heritage

in exchange for seven million acres

west of a new Arkansas boundary,

thereafter known as Indian Territory.

Cherokees and white men with Native

families who enrolled for 1832

emigration were “supposed to be”

paid for detailed assessments of their

improvements. These records are the

names of the Heads of Households

that enrolled between Dec 1831 and

June 1832 taken from microfilm copy

of the Book of Enrollment at National

Archives record Group 75, records of

the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which

contains 109 pages of

entries entitled "Statement

Showing the Names of

Cherokee Emigrants, from

the East, to the West of

the Mississippi who have

abandoned their

improvements, and which

have been valued, the

number and description of,

their location, by the

assessors appointed by the

President of the United

States in conformity with

the treaty of 6th of May 1828 with the

Cherokees West of the Mississippi".

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See Working With The Indians Prior

To 1840, Page 2

Backwoods Girl. Edward

Eggleston, A First Book In

American History, 1889.

The Gi lmer County Genea log i c a l Soc ie t y , I nc .

Continued from Page 1

It is possible that some of these families returned

to Georgia at some point.

Moved from East of the Mississippi to the West:

Samuel Adair 18 Feb 1832

Robert Berry 26 May 1832

Sally Boland (Bowling or Bolin)

Benjamin Cooper, 10 March 1832

Nancy Cooper

John Downing 29 Feb 1832

Daughter of John Downing

John Elliott

John Harris 11 Jan 1832

Terrell Henson 10 June 1832

Daniel Love 05 June 1832

James Love 09 May 1832

Martin Miller 09 June 1832

Griffin Morgan 13 Nov 1831

Peggy Pettit (widow of Benjamin Pettit)

02 April 1832

William Reed 28 Nov 1831

Elizabeth Shirley 07 June 1832

William Southerland 02 April 1832

John Sunday (Sundy)

John Terrell 18 Mar 1832

David Tucker 10 May 1832

Edward Tucker 9 May 1832

Here I have listed those who emigrated from

Gilmer County. This includes those listed in

Pickens or Fannin Counties, which were cut out of

Gilmer in 1856. The complete listing has those

from Murray and Lumpkin Counties also listed and

is in Volume II of the Gilmer County Historical

Annual available from the Gilmer County

Historical Society located in the Tabor House.

Working With The Ind ians Pr ior To 1840

Cherokee Indians: SE-QUO-YAH, The Cherokee Cadmus, With His

Alphabet In His Hands. Norman B Wood, The Lives of Famous

Indian Chiefs. Aurora: American Indian Historical Publishing

Company, 1906.

Native American Paintings: Ball Playing. Charles de Wolf

Brownell, The Indian Races of North and South America.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873.


BY PATRICIA HYATT HENSON

We do not know when this particular line of the

Long family came to the United States; however, it

had to be before 1764 when Thomas Anthony

Long was born in Prince George County,

Maryland. Thomas Anthony, a ship builder,

married Mary Conner and had two sons: Thomas

James Long was born in 1785 and Anthony M.

Long was born about1787. After Mary Conner’s

death, he married Mary Holly in 1791 and had

three more sons.

Thomas Anthony died in 1795, which left his sons

Thomas James and Anthony M. Long as

orphans. Their stepmother married again to

Hanson Stone Althey and they migrated in 1799 to

Yadkin County, North Carolina possibly following

The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road which went

from Pennsylvania to South Carolina, passing

through Maryland, Virginia,

and North Carolina. A part

of Yadkin County later

became Lincoln County,

North Carolina where they

settled. According to court

records in Maryland and

North Carolina the Althey’s

chose to sign over the

guardianship of the two

orphan boys to their uncle,

Jonathan Long, who was

living in Lincoln County,

North Carolina. Nothing is

known about the childhood

of these two young men.

However, in 1820 the boys

sued for the inheritance

which was “rightly theirs” from their father’s

estate. According to Lincoln County, North

Carolina records which upheld the Maryland court

records of June 12, 1798, the amount each of the

five sons of Thomas Anthony were to receive,

after the dower rights of Mary Holly Long Althey

were deducted, should have been approximately

49.4.4 pounds.

Thomas James Long married Rebecca Sherrill in

1807. She was the granddaughter of Capt William

B. Sherrill, who served with John Sevier in the

Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary

War. Thomas James and Rebecca had six known

children: 2 females and 4 males.

Martin Luther Long, born February 2, 1813, was

one of those sons. Very little is known of Martin

Luther’s childhood but we do know that he

obtained basic education with an ability to read

and write. At the age of twenty-two, Martin Luther

married Dorcas Amanda Dryman on December

23, 1836. She was the daughter of Henry Dryman

and Elizabeth Dillard in Macon County, North

Carolina. Martin and Dorcas moved to Gilmer

County before 1838. As indicated in the 1850

Gilmer County Census, their second child was

born in Gilmer County. Further proof of Martin

Long’s residency in Gilmer County is indicated in a

list of persons serving as part of the mounted

volunteers of Gilmer County, Georgia. He assisted

in the removal of the Native Americans to

Oklahoma in 1838. He served in this position from

May 25, 1838 to July 12, 1838.

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See First Families Project: Martin Luther Long,

Page 4

Firs t Fami l ies Pro ject : Mar t in Luther Long

“The purpose of the First

Families program is to

honor the pioneers who

were settled in Gilmer

County by 1840 or

before and to recognize

those descendants who

became members of this

program. “

Leslie Barker Thomas


Continued from Page 3

During this same time period M. L. Long is listed

on the ledger at Mr. (Coke) Ellington’s store

where he bought a “fine hat for $3.00, 27 pounds

for casting for $2.75”. His wife, “Mrs. Martin Long

bought one dress Shaw for $1.50, and flannel

for .62.5 cents” on November 22, 1838.

In the course of his lifetime, Martin served as a

Gilmer County Constable and then a juror in

1857. In 1864, he was listed on the census for the

reorganization of the Georgia Militia. He is

described as being 50 years, 11 months, a farmer,

and born in North Carolina. His name on this list

indicates that he was “not active or was exempt

from service of the Confederate States of

America” but he “assisted in the provision of and

protection of women, children, and invalids living

at home” or he may have served in the local militia

companies and performed

home front duties as might be

required. In 1881, Martin was

appointed by the court as

County Road Commissioner

for the term of two years in

the 1341 militia district.

Martin Luther Long and

Dorcas Long had a total of

twelve children: eight males

and four females. Their

children were: Henry Putnam

Long, Sarah Rebecca Long,

Elizabeth Evaline Long, Richard

Valentine Long, Thomas

Josephus Long, Eliza Jane Long,

Martha Matilda Long, Hugh

White “Bud” Long, Labon Long, Martin Sherrill

Long, Charles M. Long, and Virgil B. Long. Their

youngest daughter, Martha Matilda Long, was born

August 31, 1846. She married Peter Glenn Hyatt

on December 8, 1872 in Gilmer County. Peter,

born in Gilmer County in 1848, was another early

resident.

After the death of Dorcas Amanda in 1872, Martin

married Louisa Jane Dryman, the sister of Dorcas

Amanda. No children were born from this

union. Martin died in 1892. He and Dorcas

Amanda are buried at the Jarrett Cemetery in

Gilmer County, Georgia. Louisa Jane, his second

wife, is buried in Whitfield County, Georgia at

Popular Springs Cemetery. Descendants of Martin

Luther and Dorcas Amanda Long can still be found

in Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, and Whitfield counties

as well as Tennessee, Missouri, and other points of

the Western United States.

Firs t Fami l ies Pro ject : Mar t in Luther Long

Colonial Houses: How The Colonists Built Their Homes. Mara L. Pratt, American’s Story for

American Children: The Early Colonies. Boston: D.C. Heath & Company, 1901.

BY BOBBY BRADFORD

David Bailey Freeman was born in Ellijay,

Georgia on May 1, 1851 to Allen Freeman

and Mary Ann Reynold Murray. David had five

brothers, and at least three served in the

Confederate Army.

David's older brother Madison Montgomery

Freeman (1840 - 1869), a member of the

Fulton Blues, was crippled with White Swelling

(Phlebitis). He was elected First Lieutenant in a

calvary company, but was uncertain if he could

serve due to his disease. He asked his mother

if David, who was ten years old, could go to

camp with him as his aid. They traveled to

Camp Felton, near Cartersville. The camp

officers were so impressed with David that he

was offered the position of "Marker". He

enlisted in the 6th Georgia Calvary, Company

D with the consent of his mother and brother.

Everyone was impressed with Little David as

he rode his spotted pony through towns as

part of the 6th Calvary. David served

throughout the war and obtained the rank of

Lieutenant. David was known as the youngest

Confederate soldier, but he was also the

youngest soldier of the war. For two years,

David fought under “Fighting Joe” Wheeler

and under General Joseph E Johnston in the

Spring 1864 fight for Atlanta. He saw the

bloody battle at Chickamauga and fought at

Resaca, Cassville, and Kennesaw Mountain.

After the war, at the age of twenty-one, David

started his career as a journalist, and owned

the business in two years. David married his

wife, Callie Dudley Goodwyne on December

8, 1875 in Rome, Georgia. During his life,

David served as Mayor of Calhoun, Georgia,

Mayor of Cedartown, Georgia, and Mayor of

Cartersville, Georgia. He purchased the

Cedartown Advertiser, and The Cartersville

Courant-American (The Cartersville News).

David was very active with The Confederate

Veterans organization. He assisted veterans

with their veteran affairs and pension

problems. David obtained the rank and title of

General with The United Confederate

Veterans.

On June 18, 1929, days after he returned from

a Confederate Veterans Reunion in North

Carolina, General David Bailey Freeman died

of a heart attack in Atlanta. He was seventy-

seven years old. David is buried at the Oak

Hill Cemetery in Cartersville, Georgia.

The Youngest C iv i l War Veteran — L i t t le Dav id


Battle of Manassas, Where Stonewall Jackson Won His

Name, Robinson House - Bull Run. Henry W Elson, The

Civil War Through The Camera, 1912.


In Focus : R iver Hi l l Bapt is t Church

River Hill Memories, 1918

This photograph, furnished by Ernest Forester, appeared in The Times Courier on 18 Nov 1976. River Hill

Memories depicts members of a Singing School which was taught in 1918 at River Hill Baptist Church.

First Row (l-r): Theodore Cantrell, Johnie Anderson, Lawrence Anderson, Daisy Cantrell, Cleo Hagin, Annie

Bell Reece.

Second Row: Denver Jones, unknown, Raymond Cantrell, Clemont Cantrell, Charles Cantrell, Clyde

Cantrell, Zed Chadwick, Buford Anderson, Sam Anderson, Willard Cantrell, Ira Davis, Jethero Jones,

Slanton Bailey, Elford Southern, Clyde Southern, Edward Southern.

Third Row: Mae Jones, Floyd Cantrell, Ernest Forrester, Elsie Chadwick, Annie Clayton, Everett Bailey

(teacher), Lemma Ralston, Vercil Akins, Rosalie Cantrell, Willa Anderson, Eva Anderson, Ina Cantrell, Zelma

Cantrell, Emily Jane Reece, Ora Ellis, Della Ellis.

Fourth Row: Richard Reece, Minnie Reece, Nola Anderson, Joe Chadwick, Ruth Clayton, Artie Chastain,

Bessie Anderson, Mamie Cantrell, Reed Vandegriffe, Ben Chadwick, Homer Ellis, Truman Anderson, Clyde

Coffey, Ralph Davis, Ida Fowler, Ark Clayton, Charlie Chadwick, Arvil Cantrell.

Note: Unidentified individuals are looking out of all three church windows.


Fami ly Research Corner

March 14, 2013: It was our pleasure to have Joey Dye, Adult Services Coordinator at RT Jones

Memorial Library at the GSCGI meeting. He spoke to the group about the genealogical

information available via the Internet Archive. He gave a very informative discussion, and

much was learned about this previously untapped resource.

April 11, 2013: We want to thank Herman Clark and Ron Gravette who were guest speakers

for the Gilmer County Genealogical Society. We were honored to have these Veterans share

their personal histories of Vietnam. Herman Clark who was a Vietnam era pilot and Ron

Gravette who was a “boots on the ground” Green Beret. We appreciate our military.

May 9, 2013: Carol Hass and Diane Buchheim gave a very informative presentation about the

National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). They spoke about what the

NSDAR is, where to begin a search, steps to research linage, how to collect documents, the

different sources of information, as well as how to summit your application to the NSDAR. For

more information on DAR Membership, go to:

http://www.dar.org/natsociety/become_member.cfm

Last Quar ter High l ights

Someone would like to obtain information

on Ira B Cochran. The American Legion

Post in Gilmer County is named after him.

Reply to Leslie at [email protected].

Someone would like to know what the

Clear Creek Mill is used for (as a result of

my article on the grist mills). The mill is

located on Johnson Mill Road. Reply to

Leslie at [email protected].

Does anyone have information on a book

published on Benjamin Griffith by Charles

A. Griffith, The First Settler, of Mauldin,

South Carolina? Ms. Teeter is trying to file

a DAR application. Contact Jane Teeter at

[email protected].

Millard Orr would like information on

where Robert and Elinore Douthit Orr are

buried as well as any history on the couple.

They were the parents of Farmer Orr.

Please email an information to Millard at

[email protected].

Carolyn Higgins is researching James Allen

and his wife Martha Chastain as well as

Moses Carr Clark and his wife Nancy Foster

Allen. Moses was the son of Thomas J

Clark (farmer/clergy) Please email any

information to [email protected].

Carolyn Higgins

400 W. Lansing St.,Apt.#20

Broken Arrow, Ok.74012

http://www.dar.org/natsociety/become_member.cfm

BY BETTY RIDDLE

Being a member of the Gilmer County

Genealogical Society is all about honoring our

kin, who settled this area, making Gilmer

County the great place to live and do business

that it is today. We are family orientated and

besides encouraging and helping others in their

quest to honor their pioneer kin, we enjoy

each other's company and sharing good times.

As Special Event Chairman, our committee of

Rebecca Burrell, Joyce Whitaker and Mary

Jones want to pass on our plans for the year

2013.

Our next big event is the Annual Picnic, which

will be Thursday, July 11 a.m., at the ETC

Pavilion on the beautiful Coosawattee

River. GCGSI furnishes fried chicken and

members bring delicious covered dishes. It is a

relaxing, fun time, to mingle and

get reacquainted with old friends. We meet at

11 a.m. and lunch is served at noon.

We will gather in November to decorate our

Christmas Tree for the Sequoyah Library

Systems Festival of Trees. A theme will be

announced. This is another fun gathering

where ideas are exchanged and future plans

are laid. Before December 31st we will

remove the tree and all are invited to lunch at

a local eatery — the date and time will be

announced.

We end our year with an Annual Christmas

Luncheon at the Shriner's Building. Again, this

is a festive time to mingle , eat, and install our

Officers, for the coming year. It's a good time

to exchange ideas and lay plans for a great

New Year — the date and time will be

announced.

We look forward to seeing everyone at the

upcoming events. Just speak up if you would

like to be involved in any of these events. We

are always looking for fresh ideas and involving

more of our members. See the quarterly

schedule on Bulletin Board, page 9.

Upcoming Events For 2013

Colonial Women: Jack Hasting’s Accident. Richard Markham,

Colonial Days: Being Stories and Ballads for Young Patriots.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company,1920.


Newsletter Published By Hollyanna Hardy White

and Laurel Brenda Cochran, Publishing Chair

June:

No GCGSI meeting this month, so library can have Summer programs for the children

10th Children’s: Native American History at 3 p.m. at the Gilmer Library by Dr. Donna

Myers

22nd Digging into Your Family Roots at the Gilmer Library 10 a.m. – 4 hr. class w/lunch

break. By Karen Titus

24th Children’s: Native Americans w/crafts at the Gilmer Library, 6 p.m. by Leslie Thomas

Genealogy Research Center Volunteers: Trisha Henson, Shirley Sluder, John Davis, &

Rebecca Burrell

July:


11th Society’s Annual Picnic at ETC Pavilion & First Families, meet 11 a.m., lunch at noon

Genealogy Research Center Volunteers: Eurilla Hyatt, Linda Wolfe, Gladys Spivey & Betty

Riddle

August:


Genealogy Research Center Volunteers: Shirley Sluder, Trish Henson, Betty Riddle,

Gloria Beaudet, & John Davis

Bul let in Board


Everyone is looking

forward to our wonderful

Annual Picnic, on

Thursday, July 11th at 11

a.m. at the ETC Pavilion

located on the beautiful

Coosawattee River. Please remember to bring

your family members to celebrate. The First

Families Certificates and pins will be handed

out at the picnic to recognize and honor our

ancestors.

BY KAREN TITUS

On May 4th, we had our first Preserving Our

Heritage Scanning Project. Volunteers scanned

around ninety pictures of ancestors at the

Gilmer County Library and the originals were

given back immediately. The scanned copies

will be kept at the library in an archive which

will serve as a back-up in case of loss, as well

as preserving the histories of Gilmer’s

families.

The Pres ident ’s Desk

v

BY JOHN DAVIS

We have wonderful news! The GCGSI has added several books to the Gilmer County Library in

the Genealogy Research Center.

Records of PA Marriages Prior to 1810 -- Two Volumes

Colonial Family Histories of the United States — Seven Volumes

PA Vital Records — Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Six Books)

Map Guide by Counties to US Census 1790—1820

New Books In The Genea log y Research Center


BY BETTY RIDDLE

Good news spreads fast, and so does

memberships to those who wish to honor

their pioneer ancestors who settled in Gilmer

County Georgia in the 1840's or earlier.

We have members in Alabama, Florida,

Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and

Virginia. Our Georgia members can be found

in Acworth, Blue Ridge, Calhoun, Chatsworth,

Cumming, Duluth, Ellijay, East Ellijay, Flowery

Branch, Jasper, Lawrenceville, Locust Grove,

Marietta, Milledgeville, Powder Springs, Shady

Dale and Talking Rock.

Numerous members have added children and

grandchildren to our Rolls. It is our hope

these memberships will stimulate an interest in

history and their ancestors. Our memberships

include an attractive certificate and a lapel

pin. If you would like to grant a membership

to a best friend or family member on a special

day or as a memorial, we'd be happy to send

you an application or you can go to http://

www.gcgsi.org. There is a one time fee of ten

dollars. Come Join us.

The F ir s t Fami l ies Of Gi lmer County

Colonial People: Costumes of American Settlers. Benson J

Lossing, Harper’s Encyclopedia of United States History. New

York: Harper and Brothers Publishers,1912.

This issue of Mountain Heritage is dedicated to

Templar Titus Jr., late husband of our President,

Karen Titus. He was born on 26 Jan 1936 and

passed away on 7 May 2013.

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BY LESLIE BARKER THOMAS

As the battles raged closer, it became evident that North Georgia was

not providing the necessary allotment of soldiers for the Confederate

Army. The most common resistance was draft evasion and desertion

from the Confederate forces. The mountainous terrain of north Georgia

was ideal for hiding out among sympathetic mountain families more easily

than in other parts of Georgia. Occasionally the local law enforcement

was forced to make massive round-ups of these deserters and those who

never enlisted.

Gilmer provided nine units by 1863. Kimberly Miller Bates, has created a

webpage that lists most all the Civil War Soldiers from Gilmer County

and the unit and disposition of them in the war. It’s a work in progress. If

she has missed anyone, please send her the information.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gilmercountyrecords/civilwarsoldiers.htm.

Anyone doing research on their Civil War ancestor should know that there are message boards on the

rootsweb site at http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.Military.united-20-states.civwar/mb.ashx.

During the Civil War, many men of Gilmer County enlisted in the Confederate Army. They served in the

following units as well as the local home guard. Men from Gilmer would also join units in neighboring

counties. The following are the units specific to Gilmer County:

1st Georgia State Line, Company H, Gilmer Browns

11th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company D, Gilmer Boys

11th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company F, Mrs. Joe Brown's Boys

23rd Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company D

39th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company G, Gilmer Lions

39th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company I, Gilmer Tigers 2

60th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company F, Gilmer Volunteers

65th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company (Smith's Legion) A, Gilmer Light Guards

Gilmer 65th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company (Smith's Legion) H

If you have ancestors from the Northern States, you might be interested in searching through the Library

of Congress’ newspaper archives. This site has most all the states and is digitized from 1836-1922 at

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. Using a single keyword like a surname will bring up every reference with

that word included. To narrow your search, change the years and state information.

Par t 1 I : C iv i l War In Gi lmer County

“The Civil War

began in 1861 and

ended in 1865.”

Battle of Wilsons Creek: Death of

General Nathaniel Lyon At The Battle

Of Wilsons Creek. Paul F Mottlelay and

T Campbell-Copeland, eds. The

Soldier in Our Civil War, 1885.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gilmercountyrecords/civilwarsoldiers.htm

http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.Military.united-20-states.civwar/mb.ashx

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

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P. O. Box 919

Ellijay, GA 30540

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