Grace Arminda ‘Gracie’ Hughes

Grace was a Cherokee woman

Marriage license #1 CNIT, Flint District, January 24, 1891

Marriage license #2 CNIT, Flint District, February 2, 1891

Curator Note: According to their Dawes app Samuel presented a marriage license issued January 14, 1891 which said they were married on January 18 and the marriage was recorded on Feb. 2 with their Dawes application. They had been married in Georgia about 1869 before they moved to I.T. but needed a valid Cherokee marriage for his citizenship so remarried after they arrived.

Grace Arminda Tidwell Hughes Dawes Application #557

Grace Arminda Tidwell Hughes Land Allotment March 6, 1905

Map showing the land allotment of Grace Arminda Tidwell Hughes

Notes about Grace Arminda Tidwell Hughes written by her granddaughter, Elvira Elizabeth (Sue) Hughes.

Grace Arminda Tidwell Hughes Obituary

Newspaper article about the death of Grace Arminda Tidwell Hughes

Hughes, Grace Arminda Tidwell Headstone
Pleasant Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Adair, Mayes, Oklahoma. The cemetery is located north west of Adair, Oklahoma on East 0370 Road, just west of the Will Rogers Turnpike.
Status: Located

Source of above documents and images: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding. (2023). Grace Arminda Tidwell. Home: A Family Tribute and Scrapbook Genealogy Website. http://morethanjustacemetery.com/getperson.php?personID=I2882&t...
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Hughes, Gracie A - Application Number 23446.pdf @
https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000196389304904
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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.