Andrew Taylor Paden (1837 - 1907)

Born 8 Mar 1837 in DeKalb, Alabama, United States

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Died 6 Jun 1907 at age 70 in Stilwell, Adair, Oklahoma, United States

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Biography

Andrew was Cherokee.

Andrew Taylor Paden was born March 8, 1837 in the Cherokee Nation in Alabama, the son of Benjamin Paden, a white man, and Elmira Miller, a Cherokee. Andrew appears with his parents on the 1851/52 Siler and Chapman rolls living in DeKalb, Alabama. ^[1] The family emigrated to Indian Territory in 1857. He served in Captain Ephraim Adair's company in the Civil War. He married Martha Vickery, also Cherokee, on July 23, 1865. ^[2] They were the parents of six children, Cora, John, Zachariah, George, Robert, and Margaret. ^[3]

Andrew was elected a Sentator from Flint District, Cherokee Nation in 1895. ^[4] He died June 9, 1907 at Stilwell, OK and is buried at the Paden Cemetery there. ^[5]

More information can be found on Andrew's Dawes card and application (card #542) and Eastern Cherokee application #4731. Images of both are on Fold3.

Sources

1. ↑ Blankenship Bob, transcriber. Cherokee Roots, Vol. 1, Eastern Cherokee Rolls. Self-published. Cherokee, N.C. 1992. Images available at Ancestry.com. p. 67
2. ↑ Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed-Bloods. Arc Press of Cane Hill. 2005. p. 57 & 68.
3. ↑ 1886 Cherokee payroll, Flint District, p. 55 nos. 1123-1130. Cherokee Census, 1886. Series 7RA-58. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.
4. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. Digitized edition at https://archive.org/details/historyofcheroke00lcstar/page/n5 p. 272
5. ↑ Hampton, 'Mixed-Bloods, p. 68

• "United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGTQ-XGGD : 21 August 2019), Andrew T Paden, Stilwell, Adair, Oklahoma, United States; citing Census, Stilwell, Adair, Oklahoma, United States, NARA microfilm publication M685 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1967), various rolls.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHP1-QF1 : 19 December 2020), Andrew T Paden in household of Benjamin Paden, DeKalb, Alabama, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSRL-225 : 9 March 2022), Andrew T Paden, 1900.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Paden-16 created through the import of mom_2012-08-01.ged on Aug 2, 2012 by John Stroud. See the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.