Ezekial Proctor (abt. 1832 - 1907)

Born about 1832 in Cherokee Nation (East)

Ancestors

Died 28 Feb 1907 at about age 75 in Ballard, Adair, Oklahoma, United States

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Biography

Ezekial was Cherokee.

Dawes Enrollee

Cherokee by Blood

Dawes Card Number 395

Ezekial was born in the Cherokee Nation (East) about 1832. ^[1] He is the son of William Proctor and Dicey Downing. ^[2] The 1835 Cherokee census shows a family of 10 living on Cedar Creek (now Georgia). ^[3] The family was Removed to Indian Territory and Ezekiel appears on the 1851 Drennan Roll living in Going Snake district with his family. ^[4] Zeke served in the Indian Home Guard (Union), Company L, in the Civil War. ^[5] After the War he married Margaret Downing, also Cherokee. They were the parents of Charlotte, Frances, Winnie, Linnie, and William. ^[6] By the time he filed his Dawes application Ezekiel and Margaret had separated. ^[7] Ezekiel died February 28, 1907 ^[8] and is buried at the Johnson Cemetery, Delaware County, Oklahoma. ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims, Application #3752. Digitized at Fold3, images begin at [1]
2. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. Digitized edition at Starr
3. ↑ 1835 Cherokee Census, transcription published by the Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill, OK. 2002. Original records: National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm publication T496, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi with Index. p. 46
4. ↑ Drennen Roll of “Emigrant Cherokee,” 1851. Series 7RA-01. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. Going Snake District, p. 145, #319
5. ↑ National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database. War
6. ↑ Cherokee Census, 1880. Series 7RA-07. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. Going Snake District, #1333-1339
7. ↑ Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898–1914. Microfilm M1301, 468 rolls. NAI: 617283. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75. The National Archives at Washington, D.C. Application #395.
8. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee applications of the Court of Claims. Application #3752, Ezekiel. Death affidavit digitized at death
9. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVW-RD6S : 19 June 2020), Ezekiel Proctor, ; Burial, West Siloam Springs, Delaware, Oklahoma, United States of America, Johnson Cemetery; citing record ID 6567815, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

See also:

• Goingsnake massacre on Wikipedia
• Tragedy at Goingsnake, Cherokee Almanac, (video)