Dear Pamela,

Thanks for the lookup. I was "playing a hunch". I'm descended from two "Old Cherokee Families" (at least) the Downings and the family of the "Ghigau", Nancy Ward.

For the longest time, I've been attempting to investigate the ancestry of one of my g-grandfathers, an intermarried-white from Missouri, Jasper L. Newton. Just recently, I've been able to piece together his family and now have a lengthy NEWTON genealogy going back to the early 1700's in New Jersey.

George C. Newton was the father of Jasper Newton and my gg-grandfather. In the 1860 census he is listed in Holt Co., MO. He later appears Caldwell Co. and his wife/widow is in Vernon Co., MO. in 1880. From one of my Newton gg-Aunts' Cherokee Nation enrollment application as an intermarried white, she states that George Newton was in the Indian Territory in 1875. We don't know where or when he died or is buried. Since Holt and Caldwell counties were "hotbeds" of Southern sympathizers and guerillas and my ancestors were slaveholders, I was hoping he might have applied for a Veteran's Pension Application and I guessed it might be in the Indian Territory.

There is a George G. Newton on the Dawes and other rolls; however, this is not my guy. Jasper Newton, my g-grandfather was denied Cherokee citizenship, primarily because he was a "scoundrel" when it came to marital relationships. My g-grandmother, Sidney Crittenden Newton, is on the rolls.

Since you do have other access to Indian Territory and Cherokee Nation info, if you see something about this Newton family in the 1880 to 1900 period, I'd be very interested in any information you could provide.

Thanks,

Jim Martin