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Date Posted: 12:48:16 08/31/01 Fri
Author: vance
Author Host/IP: pm05021.intellisys.net / 64.243.58.21
Subject: Re: census
In reply to: Keith 's message, "census" on 21:53:43 08/21/01 Tue

Thank you for your comments. That was very interesting! I hope someone can shed some light on it.

I heard there were once "white towns" and "red towns". A white town was a peace town. There were as you probably know once war chiefs (red)and peace chiefs (white), too.

Also heard there was once a town of "Onega" next to Denton, Tx., and it was named so for the same reason by the Texas Cherokee and their friends from Oklahoma and Arkansas (Old Settlers) who came down there late -- 1840s to 70s -- to excape Cherokee Civil War raging between Rosses Cherokees and Treaty Party. Treaty Party allied itself with old Settlers and Rosses people took their revenge out on them too, I've heard.

If you know anything about this time period, would love to hear it. I can not document what I heard about this, so I'd like any references from recorded history about it. Wadv.

>Like a lot of people from Eastern Tennessee stock,
>I've been told I have Cherokee lineage. While doing
>genealogical work in the late 1800's census, one of
>the listings for my family lists the entire household
>as deaf, dumb, blind, idiotic or insane. There was a
>box on the page that the census-taker could check if
>any of those characteristics existed. But the WHOLE
>family? This would have been about 1870 in
>present-day Unicoi or Washington County, TN. Unicoi
>is, by the way, a corruption of the Cherokee word
>u-ne-ga or u-ne-go'i meaning "white' or "white place".
>
>Anybody else experience this? Maybe this is the
>generation when Cherokee ancestry entered the line and
>the census-taker was a bit discriminatory? Even today
>my aunts won't let me ask questions about the Cherokee
>side of the family for fear of town talk. Bias dies
>hard, I guess.
>
>Anybody else have a similar census experience?
>
>Thanks!
>Keith

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