Ambrose POWELL Nancy Ann POWELL Mahala Jane POWELL Mary E POWELL Sarah F POWELL Delila POWELL Andrew Julius POWELL Minerva R FOSTER Mini tree diagram

Margaret Etta POWELL1,2

about 18791 - UNKNOWN

Life History

about 1879

Born in Van Buren County, Arkansas.1

UNKNOWN

Died

Notes

  • 1880 Federal Census, Van Buren County, Arkansas, 3 June, Craig Townsihp, District 2, page 43, Hse #325, Fam #330
    Powell, Ambrose  W M 38  Farmer AR TN TN
    Powell, Menerva W F 36 Wife Keeps House TN TN TN
    Powell, Margret [sic] E  W F 1 Dau AR TN TN

    Comments on a photo of Nancy Powell in this genealogy on Ancestry.com:

    "This is my great grandmother.  She is the mother to James Basdon Smith my grandfather.  This is the most current picture I have ever seen of her.  In our family they say she is Indian."
    --  Donna Keen, Comment on a photo on Ancestry.com, 3 August 2016

    "This is the sister to my grandmother, Margret Etta Powell.  I added this picture from a hint on Ancestry.  Yes, I heard from many family members that my grandparents were Native American.  After searching records for several years, I had a DNA test done by Ancestry and discovered that I have  0% Native American.  Grandma always said she was not Indian, but people didn't believe her.  I believe her now."
    --  Clarece Hasse, Comment on a photo on Ancestry.com, 3 August 2016

    Margret Etta's brother Andrew Julius Powell married Myrtle Emma Green, who was a Chickasaw.  The Powells are in this genealogy because of this marriage.

    These Greens are Chickasaw because Daniel David Green, a brother of my mother's ancestor Jackson Green in Indian Territory, married Frances (Fannie) Colbert, a registered Chickasaw.  Fannie's family had been moved from Mississippi.  We have several families and this whole line of Chickasaw cousins named Green and married named like Powell and Thompson.

    The name Colbert among the Chickasaws comes from a Scottish family who settled among the Chickasaw early on and became prominent leaders in the Nation, continuing to maintain ties with the white society and governmental structure.  This did not prevent the removal of the Chickasaw Nation to Indian Territory, but because of their knowledge of the European culture and their relations within the US governmental structure, the Colberts were able to negotiate better terms and special concessions in their treaty of removal.

    The Greens descend from a Cherokee line of Greens, Meshack W Green, but never registered as Cherokees, moving rather into the general population stream.  Some other of Meshack's descendants did maintain Cherokee identity.  The Greens moved from Georgia to North Texas in about 1857, then into Chickasaw Nation.  Others of Meshack's descendants moved to Arkansas and Alabama.

Sources

  • 1. 1880 Federal Census, Van Buren County, Arkansas
    • 3 June, Craig Township, District 2, page 43, Hse #325, Fam #330
  • 2. Ancestry Comments

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