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This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, North Carolina. This area was occupied for thousands of years by indigenous peoples who settled in the river valleys. It was part of the historic Cherokee homelands, a large territory composed of areas of what are now western Virginia, western North and South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and northeastern Georgia. The c...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, Iowa. Official Website The county was formed on January 15, 1851 from open territory. It was named after the Cherokee Indians. Adjacent Counties O'Brien County Buena Vista County Ida County Woodbury County Plymouth County Cities & Townships Afton Amherst Aurelia Cedar Cherokee (County Seat...
Wikipedia =Limestone University, formerly Limestone College, is a private Christian university in Gaffney, South Carolina. It was established in 1845 by Thomas Curtis, a distinguished scholar born and educated in England. Limestone was the first women's college in South Carolina and one of the first in the nation; it is the third-oldest college in South Carolina. Ten buildings on the campus, as...
The area included in today's Cherokee County, for centuries, had belonged to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Native Americans. Cherokees began moving into the area a generation before the forced Indian Removal. To this day, there are few Native Americans in Cherokee County. On January 9, 1836, the Alabama legislature created Cherokee County with its present boundaries. Two years later, the Unit...
This project collects the facts from the fifteen-year-long crusade (Court docket #314) pursued by Margaret J. George , in which she claims that her ancestor Andrew Miller was a Cherokee Indian by blood, who lived in the State of Tennessee among the Cherokee Nation. George and her family lived for years in Indian Territory through the 1890s, and some facts do align for her claim about her father...
This project is for those buried in Grand Meadow Cemetery, Washta, Cherokee County, Iowa. Find a Grave USGW Archives
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, Georgia Cherokee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1831, covering a vast area northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River (except for Carroll County). It was named after the Cherokee people who lived in the area at that time. The discovery of gold in local str...
This cemetery is located on 986 Chesnee Highway, Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. Official Website The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, states that the county was created from the Tahlequah District of the Cherokee Nation in 1906. The Cherokee moved to this area as a result of the forced relocation brought about by the Indian Removal Act of 1830, also known as Trail Of Tea...
The Hasinai group of the Caddo tribe built a village in the area in around AD 800 and continued to live in the area until the 1830s, when they migrated to the Brazos River. The federal government moved them to the Brazos Indian Reservation in 1855 and later to Oklahoma. The Cherokee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Kickapoo Native American peoples began settling in the area around 1820. The Texas Chero...
This project is for those buried in Oak Hill Cemetery located on 1601 West Main Street, Cherokee, Cherokee County, Iowa.Oak Hill Cemetery is located about a half mile west of Cherokee along County Road C38 -- the westward extension of Main Street, Cherokee. There is a regularly updated directory near the cemetery's main entrance, and a complete map and directory (through 2013) in PDF format at ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, Kansas. Official Website History In 1803, United States acquired from France the 828,000-square mile Louisiana Purchase, the former French lands west of the Mississippi River, for 2.83 cents per acre. This territory included most of the land for modern-day Kansas. In the 1830s, the United States conducted Indian ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cherokee County, South Carolina. Official Website History This area was occupied for thousands of years by indigenous peoples and by the historic Cherokee people before European encounter. When European traders and settlers entered the area, they used the existing Native American paths: called collectively the Trading Path. The U...
Pleasant Grove Cemetery is located approximately three miles west of Maydelle, Cherokee County, Texas, just north of Highway 84. Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church is located next to this cemetery. This is a very well maintained older cemetery that is still being used today. This cemetery was catalogued in 1970 and has been partially updated in Oct. 2002 by Martha Coates. Find a Grave ...
Blue Springs Cemetery is northwest of Tahlequah, in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It is situated in the roughly triangular shape where Blue Springs Road branches off Highway 82 north of the cemetery and where Blue Springs Road and Highway 82 intersect with W. Gideon Road south of the cemetery. There is a circular drive off Blue Springs Road that leads to the cemetery entrance. Find a Grave
This 50-acre cemetery is located in Spring Valley Township, Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kansas. The National Cemetery Soldiers Lot is located within Baxter Springs Cemetery. Find a Grave National Park Service U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
This project is for those buried in St. Anthony Cemetery, Weir, Cherokee County, Kansas. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Blacksburg, Cherokee County, South Carolina. Find a Grave RootsWeb
This project is for those buried in Abingdon Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Abingdon, Cherokee County, South Carolina. Find a Grave
Located on Old Highway 5, in Woodstock, Cherokee County, Georgia, across from South Cherokee Annex. Find a Grave Billion Graves Backyard Historian Tribune Ledger News Article (October 06, 2020)
Wikipedia =Georgia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Canton, in Cherokee County, Georgia. Find a Grave
This is for people who were born, lived, and died in Murphy,Cherokee County ,North Carolina
This project is for those buried in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Kansas. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Resthaven Cemetery, Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas. Find a Grave
Petty Family Cemetery,Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina, USA: