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I don't find anyone named Leatherwood on any Cherokee Rolls. They should be on the 1835 census and the Mullay, Siler and Chapman rolls (1848-1852) if anyone was Cherokee.

Anything on Benjamin Wesely Hyde, I

There are notes in this profile that there was an Edward Leatherwood on the Gion Miller rolls

Edward 'Ned' Leatherwood

The descendants of this Leatherwood family who applied for the Eastern Cherokee payment were all rejected. [full report attached to application #500] Not only was their ancestor "Betsy Walker" not Cherokee, they erroneously claimed descent from a different Betsy Walker who was on the 1835 census. It turned out that Betsy was a white woman anyway. People find a name on the Guion Miller listing and assume that means their ancestors were Cherokee. Something like 90,000 people were named on the applications and only about 30,000 were actually Cherokee. Unscrupulous lawyers posted ads all over the country offering to submit applications for the free money (for a fee of course!).

This is good to know...... Kathie. That's a whole bunch of folks who could be confused about their family backgrounds. ....hearing stories and lore and clinging to a mystic American Indian connection. "It's because 'white people' are searching for something exciting or interesting, they want to be exotic, important." That's what I hear.
I suggest that there are others who are interested in history and finding out about themselves.

There’s an interesting aside in a Rootstech 2018 presentation on “citing sources” that’s relevant to this point. The presenter asked the audience, “who here has “heard” you have Cherokee in your ancestry?”

She tracked her own family story to a relative who married as a second husband to a man on the Rolls.

So no “blood line” but perhaps a cultural connection.

I suspect something similar in my own stories.

Kathryn, just wanted to personally thank you (and of course cousin Erica and Pam) for cleaning up this tree. We have discussed the "Indian Princess" legend from every family south of the Mason Dixon line many, many times. We were all told we were Indian. It was our "badge of Honor". Also love the unscrupulous lawyer statement above, great to know they haven't changed in the past 200 years, all over TV still offering to get a settlement for you if you jump onboard now!