Versonoy Maria ‘Versey, Vicky’ Tidwell

Versanoy was a Cherokee woman

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

Name: Rersanoton Tidwell
[Versenoy Tidwell]
[Versony N. Tidwell]
Age: 9
Birth Year: abt 1851
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Georgia
Home in 1860: District 1081, Paulding, Georgia
Post Office: Dallas
Dwelling Number: 442
Family Number: 437
Household Members:
Name Age
J Tidwell 42
Roderla Tidwell 5
Pleasant Tidwell 16
Rodurlerson Tidwell 15
Mary Tidwell 13
Grace Tidwell 11
Rersanoton Tidwell 9
John Tidwell 7
Olinentine Tidwell 5
Caroline Tidwell 3
William Tidwell 1
Manual Thomson 60

1870 United States Federal Census - Versey Tidwell
State: Georgia Sheet: 17 Family: 138 Line: 33 Image: 819

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8G2-JBP : 13 January 2022), Versonoi 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 .

"United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSRL-DF7 : 11 March 2022), Versenay Tidwell in entry for John Tidwell, 1900.
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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.