Marney Clementine ‘Mamie’ Sheffield

Marny was a Cherokee woman

1860 Olinentine Tidwell in the 1860 United States Federal Census @ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry...

1870 Clementine Tidwell in household of John Tidwell, "United States Census, 1870"

"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC3K-5Q4 : 28 May 2021), Clementine Tidwell in entry for John Tidwell, 1870.

1880 Clemantine 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-JB5 : 13 January 2022), Clemantine 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 Morney C Sheffield in household of Thomas A Sheffield, "United States Census, 1900"

"United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSRL-62B : 11 March 2022), Morney C Sheffield in entry for Thomas A Sheffield, 1900.

1910 Marnie C Sheffield in household of Thomas A Sheffield, "United States Census, 1910"

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLWZ-DX8 : accessed 17 July 2023), Marnie C Sheffield in household of Thomas A Sheffield, Township 4, Craig, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 29, sheet 26A, family , NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1249; FHL microfilm 1,375,262.

Gravestone

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108432624/marney-clementine-she...: accessed 17 July 2023), memorial page for Marney Clementine Tidwell Sheffield (18 Oct 1854–14 Aug 1923), Find a Grave Memorial ID 108432624, citing Walker Cemetery, Welch, Craig County, Oklahoma, USA; Maintained by Wes T. (contributor 48190645).
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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.