Margaret Henson

http://www.tngennet.org/cherokee_by_blood/chap5.htm#Murphy

Check under Neighborhood Near Murphy and you will see most of our Cherokee family: Hensons, Smiths, Starritt, Ruddle, and more.

Margaret Henson and her family and her mother and stepfather didn't have to go on the Trail of Tears as did her brother and sister. There was a clause in on of the treaties that allowed a Cherokee to claim a "reservation" of 640 acres and become a citizen of the U.S. Margaret and Richard Henson and Sara and John Smith had reservations as did Yonaguska. Don't know if that's why they remained in NC but it is known that Yonaguska made some kind of deal with the government in order to stay. Yonaguska's band became the Eastern Band of Cherokees some time after that.

Sarah's daughter Margaret Henson, our grandmother, didn't have to go on the Trail of Tears but did go later with a group that went on their own. The government was always after the ones the ones that were left to go ahead even though it was much later in some cases. They were paid something like $33 for expenses. Some of Margaret's children, Irena Ruddle, Joseph, and Rebecca Martin didn't go right away either went later. All this is documented. I think most of them except Irena ended up in OK. Sarah's Smith children stayed in NC.Margaret Henson migrated around 1881.

http://cherokeeregistry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...

This is a list of all the Rolls. The Chapman Roll has Sarah Blair and John Smith, William and Margaret Henson, Rebecca Staritt, and their relatives. They are also on most of the other rolls.