Ada Tabitha ‘Bitty’ Harlan

Ada was a Cherokee woman

The Ada Tidwell Harlan Dawes Enrollment Jacket for Cherokee, Cherokee by Blood, Card #280 has been uploaded to the media tab: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000196470059824

1880 Ada Tidwell in household of John Tidwell, "United States Census, 1880"

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8G2-JBB : 13 January 2022), Ada Tidwell in household of John Tidwell, District 832, Paulding, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

1900 Ada Harlan in household of Samuel Harlan, "United States Census, 1900"

"United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSRL-DKK : 11 March 2022), Ada Harlan in entry for Samuel Harlan, 1900.

Gravestone

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84099693/ada-battle: accessed 17 July 2023), memorial page for Ada Tidwell Battle (16 Jan 1871–8 Jun 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 84099693, citing Stilwell Cemetery, Stilwell, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA; Maintained by Luke Williams (contributor 47291839).
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Curator Note: John Tidwell had a white mother and married two white women. Winnie may not have ever actually been married to Young Deer. Her second husband was John Goddard, supposedly mixed-blood but there is no Goddard on the 1835 census. John Tidwell went west before the 1835 Census so was technically an "Old Settler" making him and his descendants ineligible for the Eastern Payment. He didn't stay long in Indian Territory retuning to Georgia in less than a year.

Card D894 is for Martha Tidwell, Pleasant's white wife. I don't think she ever came off the doubtful card, I don't find an allotment for her. They weren't married in the Cherokee Nation and I don't think they ever proved she was eligible. John's wife Lucretia was also disallowed after he died.

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The Tidwell's were accepted as Cherokee by the Cherokee Nation so they are Cherokee.

John Tidwell and many (not sure if it's all) of his children were readmitted to Cherokee citizenship in 1888 and was enrolled by the Dawes Commission but he died before the cut off to get an allotment. Dawes Card 519.

Pleasant, Lodusky, Lucretia (mother) Mary all readmitted in 1888,
Saphronia and Versanoy readmitted in 1890

I haven't looked all of them up, but assume all that who went to Indian Territory in time were approved.

Miller rejected them because John was not on the 1835 census and they were rejected by Siler for the same reason. You had to prove direct descent from someone on the 1835 roll in order to qualify for the Eastern payment.