Jesse Raper (1797 - 1887)

Born 10 Mar 1797 in Cherokee Nation East

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Descendants

Died Dec 1887 at age 90 in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States

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Biography

Jesse was born in 1797. Jesse Raper married Mary McDaniel. They were the parents of Martin, Catherine, Charles, Pasty, Eliza, Lewis, Gabriel, Nannie, John, Alonzo and Rachel. He passed away in 1887. He is buried at the Baptist Mission Cemetery in present day Westville, Oklahoma.^[1]

Jesse Raper married Mary Polly McDaniel about 1810 I believe in Cherokee, Swain County, North Carolina as their 1st 3 children were born there. He is in the following Census :

1800^[2]

1850^[3]

1860^[4]

1880^[5]

Look at Cherokee Lineages register report of Jesse Raper by James R. Hicks^[6]

Notes; Additional Information for Jesse Raper^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 July 2019), memorial page for Jesse Raper (10 Mar 1797–Dec 1887), Find A Grave Memorial no. 18510872, citing Baptist Mission Cemetery, Westville, Adair County, Oklahoma, USA ; Maintained by Patricia Mechling (contributor 19483256) .
2. ↑ UNITED STATES CENSUS, 1800 Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number M32 Affiliate Film Number 50 GS Film Number 181425 Digital Folder Number 004955934 Image Number 00249, CITING THIS RECORD "United States Census, 1800", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRC-WPQ : accessed 28 March 2016), Thomas Raper, 1800.
3. ↑ CITING THIS RECORD "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4YB-D3N : accessed 25 March 2016), Jesse Raper, Cherokee county, part of, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States; citing family 46, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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   Household ID 46 Line Number 11 Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number M432 Affiliate Film Number 625 GS Film Number 444638 Digital Folder Number 004181072 Image Number 00014.
4. ↑ CITING THIS RECORD "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDDP-QPC : accessed 28 March 2016), Jessee Raper
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   Household ID 343 Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number M653 Affiliate Film Number 892 GS Film Number 803892 Digital Folder Number 005170483 Image Number 00388.
5. ↑ CITING THIS RECORD "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC6N-YJ8 : accessed 29 March 2016), Jessee Raper, Notala, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 77, sheet 274D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0958; FHL microfilm 1,254,958.
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   District ED 77 Sheet Number and Letter 274D Household ID 14278884 Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARAAffiliate Publication Number T9 Affiliate Film Number 0958 GS Film Number 1254958 Digital Folder Number 005161758 Image Number 00232.
6. ↑ //www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0023-0001.html
7. ↑ 1817-19 Reservations: 18 May 1818, #82, Coosa Town, in Right of Wife, 3 in family. 1835 Census: Nottley River, NC. (Census shows one male slave and one female slave) 1848 Mullay Roll: #1040. 1851 Siler Roll: near Murphy, Cherokee Co., NC, fam #31, roll #1386. 1852 Chapman Roll: near Murphy , Cherokee Co., NC, fam #31, roll #1422. 1869 Sweatland Roll: #1379 non-Cherokee. 1850 Federal Census: illiterate 1860 Fed Census: Saline District, Indian Lands, Arkansas

• 1835 Cherokee Census, Tyner, James W., editor, Those Who Cried-The 16,000, A record of the individual Cherokees listed in the United States official census of the Cherokee Nation conducted in 1835, Pryor Printing Inc., Pryor, Oklahoma, 5th printing 1993, p. 152. Jesse Raper, Nottley River, North Carolina, 9 quarterbloods and one white intermarriage.
• A Pictorial History of Jesse Raper Descendants by Glen Thomas Raper, 1976.
• Sharon Louis Cali, work on Rapers, includes quotes from Glen Raper's book.
• Shadburn, Don L., Upon Our Ruins, A Study in Cherokee History and Genealogy, The Cottonpatch Press, 2012, pp. 198-202.
• Starr, Emmet, History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore, reprint by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., originally published 1921, p.464. [https://archive.org/stream/historyofcheroke00lcstar#mode/2up/ Book, History of the Cherokee Indians