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Mollie L. Blackstone
Gypsy Blackstone
Frank F. Blackstone
Edward F. Blackstone
George Blackstone
Gracie Blackstone
Pearl M. Blackstone
Robert W. Blackstone
Annie M. Blackstone
John Blackstone
Theodoria Blackstone
Alta Blackstone
Venia Blackstone
Nora Blackstone
 From the Book: "OLD CHEROKEE FAMILIES AND THEIR GENEALOGY". By Emmett Starr
Many of these Native American Indians shown on this page are in the
Blackstone Burial Ground in Oklahoma.
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Josephine Blackstone - aka Mary J. Blackstone.
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Pleasant Napoleon Blackstone -
- A Pleasant "Blackston" is listed in the 1850 Census of Wake County in NC. He is listed as a 23 yr old male and his race is listed as "M" (Mulato). His birthplace is listed as NC. It says: "REMARKS: Handwritten page # 539". It also showed that Pleasant could read and write. This is listed at:
http://www.us-census.org/pub-ftp/nc/wake/1850/pg0265a.txt at FN# 232.
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A Pleasant "Blackston" is listed as living in Johnston County, NC on the
1860 NC Census Index.
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One of Dock Blackstone's sons was named
Louis Napoleon Blackstone Sr. that was born in 1878. Could Louis Napoleon Sr. be named after one of Dock's brothers?
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Robert E. Blackstone - (Robert Estel Blackstone) Apparently Robert E. lived with, or married an Indian, according to Paula Millhollon. After the Civil War, his family moved to Weber Falls, Oklahoma, and became merchants. Robert E. is buried in the
Blackstone Cemetery in Oklahoma where many Cherokee Indians are buried.
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Eliza Blackstone - According to Linda Brooks, Eliza J. Blackstone was married twice - first to James McMurry and then to T. J. Harles. She and T. J. had at least one child, Frank Harles.
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Thomas Blackstone - According to Frank Blackstone, one of Dock Blackstone's sons was named Thomas. The 1840 Census of Richmond County shows a Thomas Blackstone as head of household with 1 male 15 - 20 years old and a female 20 - 30 years old in his household. Was Dock's son named after one of Dock's brothers?
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Laura L. Blackstone - According to Linda Brooks, Eliza J. Blackstone was married twice - first to James McMurry and then to T. J. Harles. She and T. J. had at least one child, Frank Harles. Laura is buried in the
Blackstone Cemetery in Oklahoma where many Cherokee Indians are buried.
 From the Book: "The Georgians of the Cherokee Removal. 1838"
R.D. Blackstone - Is the R.D. Blackstone listed above, Robert Dean Blackstone? Is it Richard Blackstone, the Father of Hannah Longstreet Blackstone?
- Robert Dean was the father of Pleasant Napoleon
Blackstone listed below.
- Robert Dean was listed in the 1830 Census in TN.
- According to the records from the Georgians of the
Cherokee Removal of 1838, R.D. Blackstone is listed as being paid $115 "for 3
flat-bottomed boats for Cherokee removal" on June 3, 1837. This record can be
found at Emory University in Atlanta. It is located in volume 315 of the U.S.
Serial Set which is in microfiche collection #1475. The microfiche can be
found on the 1st floor of Woodruff General Library on page 1050.
- Robert E. is buried in the Blackstone Cemetery in
Tahlequah Oklahoma where many Cherokee Indians are buried.
- Robert Dean was listed as a merchant in the 1860 Census
of West Arkansas (Maysville). He was appointed postmaster at Maysville, AR on
May 7, 1860 (HANDLING THE MAIL IN BENTON COUNTY ARKANSAS 1836 - 1936, Geo. H.
Phillips, p76).
- According to Linda Brooks, Robert Dean apparently
accompanied his wife and young, but grown children to the Choctaw Nation
during the Civil War (this is what many of the families in the
Arkansas/Cherokee Nation to be 'out of harm's way'. They stayed in an
abandoned Choctaw Presbyterian school and mission, called Wheelock Academy. It
was near the winter encampment of Brig. Gen. Stand Watie, commander of the
Confederate Indian Mounted Regiment, and that provided some protection from
the Union forces filtering into the area. The Union did succeed in cutting off
supplies to the mission in the winter of 1864-65, causing many hardships,
starvation, and sickness amongst the refugees. It was perhaps due to this,
plus the fact that the Blackstone's stayed on in the area for awhile after the
war ended that they were still there when Louisa England Blackstone died
(early Spring 1866).
- According to Linda Brooks, Robert Dean was a white man.
He and Louisa England (1/4 Cherokee) were married by the Rev. Daniel S.
Butrick along the trail on the evening of 8 Jan 1839. I found this
information in the Journal of Rev. Daniel S. Butrick. The documented account
of the marriage of Louisa and Robert Dean Blackstone is as follows: "Tuesday,
January 8, 1839 - We went to the new camp ground and pitched our tent near
those of br. McPhaerson and Mr. Burns. About sunset I married Mr. Robert D.
Blackstone and Miss Loisa (sic) England, at her father's tent." quoted from
the "Cherokee Removal : The Journal of Rev. Daniel S. Butrick, May 19, 1838 -
April 1, 1839," pg. 54. The Rev. Butrick traveled with the Elijah Hicks
detachment, but she has documentation that the England's and Robert D.
Blackstone traveled with the Richard Taylor detachment.
- R. D. moved to Webbers Falls, IT, Canadian District,
Cherokee Nation in 1867 taking his young, but grown children with him. As far
as I a can tell Robert Estel and P. N. Blackstone and Mitchell, Pinson, and
Martin England were all enlisted in the Confederate Indian Regiment. The
Tompkins Roll of 1867, Canadian District has R. D. listed as 57 yrs old (if
this is so, he was born about 1810). Linda Brooks has copies of letters
written by a Thomas Blackstone from Philadelphia to a Mr. Arch Baucom (or
Baucomb) whom Thomas had given charge to oversee the well-being of his mother
and sister, Mary. In one of the letters he asks if Mr. Baucom has "any idea
where Robert is as he has not heard from him in quite a while." This letter is
dated in 1841. The community in Monroe Co., TN, where they resided was named
New Philadelphia. Robert D. had gone to McMinn Co. to either work or to train
as a merchant at the time that Thomas was unsure of his whereabouts.
- There is a Pvt. Napoleon Blackston of the East TN
Mounted Infantry in the War of 1812. Could he be the father of Robert Dean
Blackstone, since Robert named his first born son Napoleon?
  Index to the Applications Submitted for the Eastern Cherokee Roll of 1909 (Guion Miller Roll)-
The index includes the names of all persons applying for compensation arising from the judgment of the United States Court of Claims on May 28, 1906, for the Eastern Cherokee tribe. While numerous individuals applied, not all the claims were allowed. The information included on the index is the application number, the name of the applicant, and the State or Territory in which the individual resided at the time the application was filed.
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/arc_info/native_americans_guion_miller_index.htm
Oklahoma, 1880 Cherokee Nation Census Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
 Guion Miller Rolls, 1906 - 1909 From the book: "Genealogy Of The Riddle Family, 1760 to 1965, 205 Years, (Compiled by Fred W. Plum)"-
Hannah Longstreet Blackstone: Hannah was born "the night the stars fell" (an astronomical phenomenon). She was the daughter of a large plantation owner near Atlanta, Georgia, whose horse ran away with him that night, as he rode for a doctor to attend his wife. He said that it was as light as day as the stars all shot from the sky. The plantation which he owned was said to be fifteen thousand acres, with 150 to 300 slaves to work it. Hannah had five brothers who lived to be grown. Hannah was 1/4 Creek or Cherokee Indian (probably Cherokee since she was from near Atlanta, Georgia). (I found on the 1850, Gordon County, Georgia census a Hannah born in SC, age 17 with Richard as head of the family. It appears that this same Richard in on the 1860 Titus County, Texas census.) When the war between the states began, Hannah's father was "middle aged", but like Wade Hampton of South Carolina he was rich in worldly goods. So like Wade Hampton he raised and equipped a regiment of cavalry and rode off to war as its colonel to fight the "Dam Yankees" and with him rode his five sons leaving the plantation in the hands of an "overseer" who was to keep on raising cotton, corn and all kinds of food for the "cause". Hannah's father and four of his sons died on the battlefields where they met the Yankees. The other son Luther came home before the war ended with seven bullet holes through his body. Not long after Luther came home from the war, someone with a lot of confederate money offered to buy the plantation. He got in touch with Hannah, they thought the money was good so they sold the plantation for two trunks full of confederate money about $160000 in shinplasters mostly (nearly all of the slaves were gone by then). The money was not worth much then and in a few months was not worth anything. They kept the money for awhile, hoping the South would rise again. Some of it may still be in existence, but they destroyed most of it after Hannah died at 8:00 PM. She was buried at Damascus.
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