Mary White

Mary was a Cherokee woman

1850 Mary Tidwell, "United States Census, 1850"

"United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:MZYK-BMX : Mon Jul 17 19:25:06 UTC 2023), Entry for John Tidwell and Cresa Tidwell, 1850.

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

1870 Mary White in household of William H White, "United States Census, 1870"

"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCS5-LNS : 28 May 2021), Mary White in entry for William H White, 1870.

1880 Mary White in household of Wm. H. White, "United States Census, 1880"

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8GG-7P6 : 13 January 2022), Mary White in household of Wm. H. White, District 1073, Polk, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

1900 Mary White in household of William H White, "United States Census, 1900"

"United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSRL-BZ1 : 11 March 2022), Mary White in entry for William H White, 1900.

1910 Mary White in household of William H White, "United States Census, 1910"

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLQZ-N9Z : accessed 18 July 2023), Mary White in household of William H White, Stilwell, Adair, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 11B, family 52, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1242; FHL microfilm 1,375,255.

1920 Mary White in household of Harrison W White, "United States Census, 1920"

"United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJM8-FXH : 3 February 2021), Mary White in entry for Harrison W White, 1920.

1930 Mary White in household of Walter Bateman (as mother-in-law), "United States Census, 1930"

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC7D-HDG : accessed 18 July 2023), Mary White in household of Walter Bateman, Tiger, Creek, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 59, sheet 1B, line 65, family 14, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1901; FHL microfilm 2,341,635.

Gravestone

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84534649/mary-white: accessed 18 July 2023), memorial page for Mary Tidwell White (1 Mar 1847–18 May 1932), Find a Grave Memorial ID 84534649, 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.