Re: Guion Miller Roll Lookup
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Re: Guion Miller Roll Lookup
Otis Fuller 5/24/13
Otis, I do not mean to jump into your conversation, but I may be able to add some info on the Maney family that Juanita gave to you as parents of Harriet Blankenship. Harriet's grandmother was Agnes Weatherford Vann Burlison b. about 1740. Agnes was a white woman and she had two children John Jr and Keziah Vann, about 1758-1761 with John Vann the Indian Trader who was supposedly one half Cherokee. Keziah married Martin Maney an Irishman while he was in the American army in 1780. As an adult John Vann Jr lived as a Cherokee and Martin and Keziah moved before 1817 to the Sweetwater valley in what is now Monroe County TN. Martin and Keziah took up a reservation and lived on the Sweetwater until 1821. One of Martin and Keziah's sons William killed a man and broke out of jail to escape.The rest of the Maney family were forced to leave by the neighbors, both Indian and white. They returned to the Big Ivey River near Bernardsville in Yancy Co. NC today. John Vann Jr. continued to live in the Cherokee nation and went west before the Removal.
Because Agnes remarried after John Vann Sr deserted her, she and her Burlison husband raised John Jr. and Keziah Vann along with their Burlison children in Washington Co. NC/TN and in Burke and Buncombe County NC, so they were not enrolled in the Cherokee Rolls. Some of the Grandchildren applied after the rolls were completed but were denied, at least one descendant was accepted. I do not have the record in front of me but I think it was the Gale Roberts family that was accepted under Keziah Vann Maney. Anyway Keziah Vann Maney was one quarter Cherokee.
John H. Burleson
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Otis Fuller 5/31/13
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