Margaret Ross

Not the same as Margaret “Peggy” Catron

Biography

Margaret Hildebrand was a Cherokee woman.

51.MARGARET4 HILDEBRAND (JOHN3, MICHAEL2, JOHN1) was born 1834 in Onslow, CNE, and died May 01, 1870.She married LEWIS ROSS Bef. 1848, son of DANIEL ROSS and MARY MCDONALD.He was born February 20, 1792 in CNE [Marysville, Blount Co, TN], and died February 15, 1870 in Saline Dist, CNW.

More About MARGARET HILDEBRAND:
1851 Drennan roll: Tahlequah, 384 as Wakey Hildebrand

Notes for LEWIS ROSS:
Starr lists Ross 1-1-1-4 Lewis Ross +Fannie Holt (one spouse) in the family group there are five sets of half-siblings.

Child of MARGARET HILDEBRAND and LEWIS ROSS is:

1. 168. HENRY CLAY U-HA-LU-GI ROSS, HON born November 22, 1848 in Saline Dist, CNW, and died May 01, 1906 in Locust Grove, OK. (Burial Sixkiller Cem., Mayes Co., OK)

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Margaret Hildebrand was born in the Cherokee Nation (East) about 1834. She was the daughter of John Hildebrand and Akey Tickstring. John is listed on the 1835 Cherokee census living on the Hiwassie River with a family of 9.

John Hildebrand died about 1838 and Margaret was Removed to Indian Territory with her mother. In 1848 she parented a child, Henry "Oo-hah-loo-gi," with Lewis Ross. [2]

Margaret and her son appear on the 1851 Drennan Roll (she is listed as "Wakey") living with her mother in the Tahlequah District.[3]

Margaret died in 1870.

References

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6696128/lewis-ross
2. https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0018...
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hildebrand-2071 cites
   1. 1835 Cherokee Census. Transcript, Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill Oklahoma, 2002. p. 9
   2. Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1186, 93 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Cherokee by Blood Card #2553 Henry C. Ross
   3. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas; Fort Worth, TX; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-01; NARA Series Title: Drennen Roll, 1852; Roll: 1. Tahlequah District #384