The Family of:

Thomas Woodall
(The son of William & Anna Woodall)
(Pvt Capt Wm Taylor's Co, 18th US Infantry - War of 1812)
Born: 12 Feb 1793 NC (per War 1812 Enlistments Record)
Died: abt 1861 Going Snake Dist. Cherokee Nation IT OK
Buried: Home  place - Woodall Cemetery

Married 1st: abt. 1816

Children of Thomas & Nannie

Children of Thomas & Varches

In 1838, Thomas Woodall left his second wife Varches, 
after learning that Nannie and his ten children from her, 
were removed from Georgia by the US Government and
set upon a trail to the new Cherokee Nation West, this trail
later to become known as the 'Trail of Tears'. 

Thomas set out to find Nannie and his ten children leaving
Varches without telling her, once at the Mississippi River he
wrote her a letter, that he would return, and he never did,
he left them land and money, later it is said by the descendants
of Varches that she wrote Thomas a letter, understanding the 
situation he was in, and ask that he not return to Gerogia, 
several years later, Varches remarried. 

One can only imagine the agony & terror of having ten of your 
children cast out to natures fate, in 1838.  Of the over
17,000 Cherokee's removed from GA to OK, 4,000 died
on the 'Trail of Tears'.   I would like to hope, that Thomas
did finally catch up with Nannie and the Children which may
have saved their lives, as they all arrived in Oklahoma, where
Thomas became wealthy, built a Georgian style home and 
lived there for the rest of life, at the Woodall homeplace. 

Location: Sec. 19, R26E, T18N 

Personal Accounts / Stories / Various Records

From a Woodall Descendant 
by Jack Woodall 

     Thomas Woodall was buried in Adair County in the old Woodall Family cemetery. An article printed in "Flashback Vol XI #3, August 1961"  reads "Elizabeth Wagnon was the wife of Thomas Wagnon, early resident of Fayetteville, whose Will was published in FLASHBACK October 1960. Their son, Marshall Wagnon, married Margaret Woodall, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Woodall who lived about one-half mile southeast of old Baptist Mission (near Westville). 

      We found Marshall Wagnon's grave in the old Woodall family cemetery, all traces of it almost gone now. Only a few tombstones stand in a grove of trees, about halfway between the paved highway and the K.C. Southern railroad tracks. It is about one-half mile north of old Jacob Houston Woodall's two story home standing about a mile north of Westville. Thomas Woodall built one of those old type Southern plantation houses. It was two story and rooms about 20 x 20 with breezeway between. This old house stood through the Civil War but was burned soon afterwards. There is no trace of it today, so far as I could see."

     I have been told a J. P. Stanfield owns the property where this cemetery is located. His telephone number is 918-723-4015. 

     A Tom Woodall (1889-1918) and a Charles Woodall (1861-1902) are buried in the Old Baptist Mission Cemetery located a mile or so north of Westville.

May 4, 2003

Woodall - Wagnon Cemetery:
by Emily Woodall  (as told Jun 6, 2003)

The Woodall Cemetery or the Woodall-Wagnon Cemetery is located in Westville, OK on the property of Ray Stanfill.  It is the home place of Nancy and Thomas Woodall. I visited the cemetery in March 1997. The Cemetery was in terrible shape when we were in OK, but it is a beautiful place. I can understand why Thomas must have loved Oklahoma. 

There were a lot of stones, some also gone. The cemetery is in a grove of, I believe Locust trees. I am not familiar with these trees but that was what I was told. I did not meet Mr. Stanfill that day, however, I did write him a thank you letter and told him the history of Thomas, Varches and Nancy. It seemed proper to tell him the history of his land. 

I do not know how Mr. Stanfill feels about people wanting to see this cemetery as someone else made the arrangements for us to see it. At that time, we were permitted to see it and as you know, there is a law that says that if you have a cemetery on your property that you have to let the kin visit it. 

The Cemetery was quite aways from where we turned off the main road and we had to drive across the pastureland with all of the cattle looking at us. It was pretty rough and I would not want to drive a good car in there, even though the pasture grass was not high, but oh, so pretty and green. 

I understand that Jacob Woodall was buried there, someone told us that his head stone was used as a stepping stone to someone's front door.   Thomas and Nancy have to be buried in two of the unmarked graves.  Charles E. Thorne, who died in 1884, three weeks and two days old.  Millard A. Wagnon, Oklahoma, Pvt, 58th Infantry, World War I, born January 8, 1895 and died July 1921.  Willard A. Brown, born May 26, 1881 and died July 1886 (it looks like 1886). Lucinda R. Wagnon with the date of March 12, 1853 below her name, nothing else.  Thomas Wagnon with April 3, 1851 (I think) and December 20, 1911.  

Notes from Mike White:
Who are those buried above?
1. Jacob Woodall        = Son of Thomas & Nanny Woodall
2. Thomas & Nancy Woodall - Unmarked or Missing grave stones.
3. Millard A. Wagnon   = Son of Thomas F & Lucinda Wagnon.
4. Willard A. Brown     = Son of Wm & Margaret [Wagnon] Brown.
5. Lucinda R. Wagnon = Lucinda Marie [Sixkiller] Wagnon.
6. Thomas Wagnon     = Thomas Foreman Wagnon husb. of Lucinda.
7. Charles E. Thorne    = Mystery man, have no idea who he is...
8. There are Unmarked or missing grave stones. 
9. I was told that Marshal P Wagnon's (CSA) was buried here but 
    his  stone was very deteriorated.

Wagnon/Woodall Cemetery:
Provided by: Mary Beth

The Woodall Cemetery is listed in "Our People and Where They Rest". It is listed as the Wagnon Cemetery. This book was done in the 1960s by a grant by the Doris Duke Foundation (by Carselowey). However, the cemetery is also listed in the Pioneer Papers - on file in the Oklahoma Historical Society. These papers were done in the 1930s by the WPA - it gave a lot of people jobs.

There is a wonderful interview done by Margaret Wagnon Costen Elkins done at the same time they mapped out the cemetery. In there they list as many as 30 graves - some of whom were Nannie Tadpole, Thomas Woodall (Sr.) and several others. 

As you may know, Nannie Tadpole was as near as I can tell a full blood Cherokee and Thomas was White. They were living here in Georgia up near Lake Allatoona when the Government made them relocate to OK, (Trail of Tears).

About the THOMAS WOODALL LETTER: 
(Father of Margaret Woodall Wagnon)

Thomas Woodall first married  Nannie (Cherokee) Tadpole in
Georgia, from this marriage came 9/10 children.  Thomas, 2nd
married Varches Deliah Spence, on 15 Mar 1832, Morgan Co
GA.  From this marriage were born three children.

In 1838/39, the Cherokee's Indians were removed from Georgia 
by force and taken to Oklahoma, Nannie Tadpole was Cherokee
and she and her children were marched from GA in 1838, on to
what later became known as, 'The Trail of Tears'.   

Thomas Woodall learning that Nannie and the children were 
being taken to Oklahoma, left Varches and their three children
to find Nannie, as he knew she was already sick.  When Thomas
reached the Mississippi River, he wrote a letter to his 2nd wife,
Varches, telling her he would return in three months, he left her
and the children with money enough to survive.  And never returned.

It has been said, by family, that Varches, feeling sad about what was 
happening, wrote Thomas a letter asking him not to return to GA.

In 1838, Thomas reunited with Nannie and their children in 
Going Snake District Oklahoma, where he became wealthy,
and lived the rest of his life.  He is buried at their homeplace
with Nannie, at the Woodall Cemetery, in what today is Adair
County OK.

1838 LETTER FROM THOMAS WOODALL TO 
HIS 2nd WIFE VARCHES SPENCE WOODALL
after reaching the Mississippi River...

Copy From Original - August the 25, 1838

"Now Varches I am oblige to leave you for a while or lose 2 or 3 thousand
dollars. If I live to git there I am sure to get it. It is sordy
against my will. The three wagon and teams is my own and I will draw
all the money that they yearn and I can sell them besides half the
valuation I shall get. The other half will do my children if I dont fetch
them back. As to Nancy I have no thought that she is alive till yet and
if she ant I will bring my children back. Keep in good hart and take 
care of your self and my little boys until I return. I will come back in 
three months if life and strength last me. As to my taking my money, 
I will come back threw the Mississippi and if I can I will by negros. 
I have left you 40 dollars in silver, 20 in paper, 7 on Mr. Rich, 15
on Mr. Nite, which is 82 dollars in all. That will do you until I git back
but I am fraid you will not believe what I have told you as I have went
off and not let you know it but I was oblige to go and did not want any
fus about it. I would be glad you and Mr. Nite could git the title to 
your land if it cost one hundred dollars as I am afraid you will be 
drove off it before I get back. Sell 10 head of your hogs if you can 
and kill the rest and take as good care of my little boys as you can
keep in good hart for I will do all I can to get all the money that is there.
I am sure of two thousand dollars, I want to overtake them by the time
they get there so keep in good hart for I can do a good deal more for
you then to stay and do nothing. I will rite you every weak or too to
certain and when I get there I want you to rite to me how you are doing.
I will rite the letter in my own name. God bless and you and my little
children my hart will be with you all ways.  Nancy was very sick when 
she started and it was the opinion of every one she would not last
to reach Arkinsaw and if she dont, everything will be destroid and if it 
is so, I will bring my children and put all tack and if she is alive I will
get what is coming to me and come back just as soon as I can get the
money I may be back sooner that three months."

August the 25, 1838

NOTE:
The Woodall descendant who provided me with
this information, was not at liberty to provide his
source, this letter is in the possession of a Woodall
descendant, is not on file at any library or archive. 

Interview with a Descendant

This is only a portion of the interview,
much is spoken of our Margaret Woodall
Wagnon Brown, the interview reflects the 
suffering of our ancertors during the Civil
War, their struggle to survive. 

Life Story and Family Tree of
Sallie (Johnson) Butler

From an Interview with Mrs.
Butler, and information

Gathered from Emmet
Starr’s History of
The Cherokees

By James Robert Carselowey

My name is Sallie (Johnson) Butler. I live at Big Cabin, Oklahoma, and since 1895, have been conducting the Colonial Hotel. I was born on Ballard Creek, Goingsnake district, Cherokee Nation, Ind. Ter., on January 1, 1861.

My father’s name was Joseph Sephus. My mother’s name was Celia (WOODALL) Cephus, and I was the only child born to this union. My mother was first married to Dr. Andrew Emory, an Englishman. To this union one child was born, Kate, who married James M. Carselowey. Dr. Emory died a natural death before the Civil War.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was THOMAS WOODALL, and my grandmother was Nannie (TADPOLE) WOODALL. To this union nine children were born as follows:

ROBERT WOODALL, who married Quaitie Landrum; ELIZABETH WOODALL, who never married; MARGURITE WOODALL, who was married five times as follows; Alexander Sanders, John Scott, Hampton Williams, MARSHAL WAGNON and William Brown; ISAAC WOODALL, who married Mary (Daniel) Carselowey; THOMAS WOODALL, who married Annie Daniels; LUNINDA WOODALL, who married James Downing and Thompson Buzzard; ABRAHAM WOODALL, who married Susanna Hendicks; CELIA WOODALL, who married Annie (Daniels), his brother THOMAS’s widow.

My mother died when I was five months old, and my sister, Kate was eight years old. We then went to live with our grandmother, NANNIE (TADPOLE) WOODALL who was blind and also a widow. This was in 1861, the first years of the Civil War. The country was very badly upset, and the Pin Indians had become so bad that it was impossible for the men folks to stay on the place with any degree of safety. The Pin Indians had already killed one of my uncles, Tom (Thomas) Woodall. They called him to the door, just after dark and a bunch of men on horseback shot him down from where they stood at the gate. They would not allow the men folks to make any trips into Arkansas after something to eat, under threat of death. Uncle Tom and Tom Thornton had slipped out and brought in a load of groceries and they found it out and killed them both. Most of the men in the neighborhood left home after that and went into the Choctaw Nation and joined the Southern Army. The Southern army being located there at the time.

This left my blind grandmother at home with myself and sister Kate to look after. My aunt, Margurite [Wagnon] Brown, hereafter known as Aunt "Peggie", came to live with us, and she had six children, which made 10 in our family, with only Aunt Peggy and her larger children to make a living for the bunch, and which she managed to do during the period of war. It was a hard struggle for her. The men folks had left plenty of cattle, hogs and farm implements for them to carry on the work on the farm, with the help of the larger boys, but the Pin Indians drove them all off, until we only had one old yoke of oxen and a milk cow or two left. My Aunt Peggy and one of her little boys had to drive the ox team all the way to Fort Gibson, about 75 miles after our groceries, and it took them almost a week to make the round-trip.

ONE OF AUNT PEGGIE’S BOYS KILLED

To make matters worse, a full blood Indian boy the name of Sampson Sixkiller came to our place one day begged some apples. While eating them on the porch, in company with my Aunt Peggie’s son FRANK? Brown, the Indian stuck a knife in Frank’s? back and killed him. He lived long enough to tell us, that the Indian had said, "You Dam Mean Boy," and then stabbed him. We always thought he came over on purpose to kill the boy. (Note: Someone crossed out Frank’s name on the copy of the story used for this reproduction and wrote in a unintelligible name.)

HOUSES BURNED DURING WAR

When the war was over and our men folks returned home; Uncle Isaac Woodall’s house had been burned as had my Aunt Peggie’s. They put my Aunt Peggie out in one of the "nigger" shacks where she lived for a few years, after which she rented a place and moved to herself.

MOVED TO DELAWARE DISTRICT IN 1870

In 1870 my sister Kate, married James M. Carseloway, a step-son of my Uncle, Isaac Woodall and the four of them moved to Delaware District, together with the three daughters of Isaac and Mary Woodall, namely Annie, Susie and Jannie Woodall, half sisters of James M. Carseloway, and first cousins of myself and sister Kate, yet Kate and James are no blood kin. (Figure that out).

That left me alone with my blind grandmother, as all of her children had married and gone. Then followed another series of hard times. Aunt Peggie came back to live with us and took care of us until my blind aunt died. The Cherokee National council passed a law giving all of the blind and orphans $15.00 per year, and that gave us $30 a year to live on and that was all we had, but it went a long ways and you could but more for a dollar then than you can now.

When my grandmother died, I was 14 years old, and my Uncle Isaac Woodall, then living in Delaware district was my guardian and he came and got me and took me home with him. When it came time to leave Aunt Peggy and I cried and took on so, that one of Aunt Peggie’s sons by the name of Sanders and Uncle Isaac came near having a fight. Aunt Peggie wanted him to leave me with her, but he did not like her and would not do so.

My grandmother willed Aunt Peggy her home place when she died, because she had done so much for us. Uncle Jake and Uncle Isaac contested the will, but it stood in court just as my grandmother had made it...

There was another interview with Betty Woodall who's own accounts offers supports Mrs. Butlers interview, will eventually add some of those excerpts to this section... to be continued...

Interview of Gr Gr Aunt 
Margaret Marshall (Wagnon) Elkins

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma

Date: October 12, 1937
Name: Margaret Elkins
Post Office: Westville, Oklahoma
Residence Address:
Date of Birth: July 3, 1863
Place of Birth: Goingsnake District, Cherokee Nation, I.T.
Father: Marshall Wagnon
Place of Birth:
Information on father: white
Mother: Margaret Woodall
Place of birth: Marietta, Georgia
Information on mother: Cherokee
Field Worker: Hummingbird & Bigby

Margaret Elkins was born in Goingsnake District, July 3, 1963. Her father was Marshall WAGNON, a white man. Her mother was Margaret Woodall, a Cherokee. Margaret Woodall was born in Marietta, Georgia. She was married in Georgia to a man named SCOTT, a part Cherokee. They had a child, Nancy Scott.

After the death of said Scott she was again married to a man named Wagnon. To this union there were only two children born, namely:   Margaret and Thomas Wagnon. Later she was married to another man named BROWN. She and Brown had two children, Willard and Franklin. Mrs. Elkins still lives on the same farm that the family settled when they came to the Cherokee Nation from Georgia in 1837.

Early Life
Most of the early life of Mrs. Elkins was spent on the farm that her father operated about three miles northwest of the present town of Westville, At first she remembers this farm was small, containing about ten acres. Her father and grandfather worked and cleared more land until now the farm contains about one hundred acres.

The Woodall family was a well-to-do family in the early times. They owned slaves before the Civil War. They kept a few slaves after the war. But they were slaves no more.

Indian Cooking
The family of the Woodalls that came from Georgia were all full blood Cherokees. They knew cooking the old Cherokee way. They ate the simpliest of food. The food that could be found on most of the tables would be wild meats, corn and bean bread, pumpkins and dried fruit. At that time fruit was plentiful in the woods. but fruit jars were not known so most of the fruit was dried. They way they dried fruit was by the sun method.

They built a scaffold of poles out in the yard. The fruit was peeled and cut in small pieces and placed on the scaffold until dry. This was sacked and stored up in the lofts of their homes.

Sweet potatoes was another common food in those days. Many sweet potatoes were raised by the Cherokees. They also knew how to take care of them better than they do now.

Plenty of wild meat was stored away in the winter. Hogs ran wild over the hills in this part of the Cherokee Nation and hundreds of them were killed every year. There was no law to prohibit anyone from killing as many as his family could make use of. But they had to have a claim in the woods in order to do this. These hogs stayed fat all the year. There was plenty of meat.

Soldier SIXKILLER was the greatest hog raiser in this part of the country. He owned several hundred.

Indian Medicine
There was not as much sickness in the nation at that time. Communicable diseases were almost unknown. The only diseases that bothered among the Cherokees was Summer Chills, headaches and colds. These were treated with herbs and different kinds of bark by the Cherokees themselves. Consumption among the Cherokees was also common. Many died from this disease. Some few among the Cherokees thought that this could be cured. They were good doctors for gun wounds. They knew the method where they could draw lead out of a shot. But nowadays this old way of doctoring is almost a thing of the past. They did not teach the younger Cherokees their way of doctoring. When they did teach anyone they would leave enough out of the necessary knowledge so the person taught would not surpass the teacher.

They stopped fevers by a method they called "Sweating Fever". This was done by placing several kettles of hot water in the bed with the patient. Placing these pots of water under the covers with the sick would cause the person to sweat. This seating caused the fever to stop immediately. She has witnessed this process on several occasions. Among the best Cherokee doctors whom she knew was an old lady named Cha-Wa-Yeu, this lady lived on Ballard Creek near old Fort Wayne, now Watts. She was the mother of George and Fred DUNNOWOSE who was hung in 1891.

Education
The earliest school in this part of the Goingsnake District was the Baptist Mission School. She lived just a mile south of this school. She finished the eighth grade and also attended the Orphan Asylum at Tahlequah when Watt Duncan was superintendent. Afterwards she taught school at Timberlake which was a community near where the Morris School is now. Carrie QUALLS and Nan MCNAIR were her favorite teachers.

Church
The Baptist Mission which they attended was the only church in this part of the Cherokee Nation. The old timers say that this mission started before the Civil War. Some say this was established soon after the coming of the immigrants. But the first missionary at this place was Reverend UPTON as told by the old timers. Afterwards John JONES was stationed at this place. Besides the old log mission house there was erected a brick to house Reverend John Jones.

Post Office
Several years afterwards this Baptist Mission was allowed a post office which was called the Baptist Post Office. Mrs. Carrie QUALLS was the first post-mistress. A printing shop was also established at this place.

Civil War
When the Civil War broke out in the Cherokee Nation her father joined the Confederate Army. He served through the War until the last year. He was killed in the battle of Fayetteville.

Courts
Goingsnake District Courthouse was located on Peacheater Branch, west of present Westville. Abe Woodall was the judge for one term.

Trading and Milling Points
Tahlequah was their main trading point at that time. This was about twenty-five miles away. But they did all their milling at Moore’s Mill over in Arkansas.

     Thomas & George Carruth Woodall served in the War of 1812 George Carruth was only 12 years old, but his pension request shows he enlisted as a "fifer". 

     George Carruth's Woodall's pension application states, "In my boyhood AD 1814 in the war of 1812 my brother Thomas Woodall and myself George Woodall, both entered the service in November 20th 1814. I myself entered the service. Thomas Woodall enlisted for five years or during the war myself for five years. I enlisted in Capt. Henry or William Taylors company forth Regt of Infantry State of South Carolina, Pendleton District we were marched to Ft. Johnson near Charleston, remained there until peace was declared in 1815" and etc. It is quite likely that both knew your uncle.

Provided by:
Jack Woodall

War of 1812 - Military Bounty Grant
160 acres to Thomas Woodall in Arkansas.
Issued: April 1, 1816.

THOMAS WOODALL 

CITATION: 

United States Bureau of Land Management. War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrants, 1815-1858. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration (Microfilm Publication M848, Roll 2, Record Group 49). Warrants 3569 and 3570. 

No. 3570.
Pursuant to the second section of an Act of Congress,
passed the 6th of May, 1812, authorizing the Secretary of War to issue
Land Warrants to the noncommissioned Officers and Soldiers enlisted in
the service of the United States, conformably to the acts of the 24th of 
December, 1811, and the 11th of January, 1812, THOMAS 
WOODALL

Late a Soldier in the company commanded by Captain
William Taylor of the 18th Regiment United
States' Infantry is entitled to ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
ACRES OF LAND, to be located agreeably to the said act on any unlocatedparts of the six millions of acres appropriated by law for the original grantee of such military warrants; and this warrant is not assignable or transferable in any manner whatever.

Location              Given at the War Office of the United States,
ARKS                      this First day of April
                                A. D. one thousand eight hundred and Sixteen
                           P122 Signed: Wm W Crawford, Secretary of War
Registered.
                           Signed: Nat Cutting, Clerk

Note from Mike:
This serves as definitive proof that 
Thomas Woodall served in the War of 1812. 
This is the same Captain and Unit his younger
brother George served under. 

WAR OF 1812 QUERY TO THE "NARA" - Response:

Jul 5, 2003:  NARA didn't find a Pension.

Jul 9, 2003:  NARA did not find any Military records whatsoever.       

** The Military Grant above and Thomas's brother George's mention
     of Thomas service on his application serves as ample proof. 

***Correction/Update: June 29, 2016

National Archives found the following:

"Records of Men Enlisted in the U. S. Army  --  Prior to the Peace Establishment, May 17, 1815"
Pages 156 and 157:
No.   Name                           Organization           
                                  Rank   Regiment   Co Commander
5303 Woodall Thomas   Pvt   18th US Inf  Capt Wm Taylor
         Hieght - Ft/In  Eyes  -  Hair  -  Complexion - Age - Occupation  -  Where Born -            When......
                    5 - 10  Blue      Dark      Swarthy        21    Farmer  City/Twn: Blank State-NC    Oct 14, 1814
                                                                                                                                 (enlistment date)
Pages 157        
Enlistment (con't) Where  By Whom                  Period 
                             blank    Capt Wm Taylor    Dur. of War         
Remarks:
D. Roll Feb 16, 1815 Present --  D R. Feb 16, and I.? R. March 28/15,/ Present.
Discharged at Fort Johnson, S.C. March 28/15, Term Expired. See Pension Case.

See Below to view Original Copy

War of 1812  
Thomas Woodall's Brothers Records:

George Woodall - SC-20704 Served Capt William Taylor's
                            Co, in the 18th US INF.

John Woodall    -  SC-19699 Served Capt William Taylor's Co SC Mil.

Thomas Woodall - No Records found. But we have his unit from his 
                             Military Grant - Same unit as brothers - see above.

Entry also found in Ancestry.com

Arkansas Land Records for:
Thomas Woodall

Cherokee Genealogies:

Letters From Indian 
Agent Hugh Montgomery
Received 3 July 1817 by Governor William Rabun
(Georgia Archives)

Sir,

I have just returned from the Frontiers, and have Sat down to vie you the names of the white persons (heads of familys) who I find living on the Indian lands adjacent to this County--(Jackson) Let it be remembered that I did not visit the South West side of the County, I had no expectation before I set out that any person had settled over the appalatchee (river), when I got to the Hog mountain I learnt that the persons named in the Depositions sent to you were all in the Quarter and that they had been all advised to Return before the Depositions were forwarded to you and had Refused. I had a Right to believe that the names of all were sent to you, I was also informed that most of them had either moved in or were about to remove with (page2) the exception of a John Camp and a few others(.)
I then turned up the north west side of the county and the following are the persons I find on the Indian Lands in that Quarter together with the Relations? Situations in which they live (viz) between the Stone Mountain and Chatahoochee River, are Silas McGrady, John Steen, and James Steen Senr., and Clanton Steen in the settlement 

Page 228 WHITES AMONG THE CHEROKEES

Called Rogere settlement(,) and on both sides of Chatahoochee are James Steen Junr., John Rogers, John Defoor, and may by the name of Bell, two men by the name of Bagwell, John Woodall, William Woodall, Thomas Woodall, and an other Woodall given name not know(n), and Tabitha Harper a widow(,) Parker Collens, Jonathan Gray, and William H1arden(;) above the mouth of Suaunee are William Garner, Warren Young, John Tidwell, and Austin Dobbs, at and near the mouth of the Flowery Branch are Bud Mullens, Robert Smith Senr., and Thomson McGuire(;) at and near the Ferry are John Lessly, Danl May, Caleb Moselym Benjn. Murry, John Gothard, John Wilson and Hugh Wilson, on Flat Creek are Simon Strickland, Sion Strickland, Irvin Strickland, Lazeras Strickland, Lewis Crow, Sion Crow, and Richard Letteral, on and near the Chestetee (River) are Freeman Overbee, Danl. Short, Noah Langly, John Martin, and Jesse Abercrombia Senr. (,) james Abercrombia Junr. (,) Benjn. Morris, Henry Morris, John Diffy, Henry Barten, Holly Barten widow, and George Davis (.) (page3) I did not see all of them, but the greater part of them that I did, promised to come in, some few will, say about one in ten, the ballace will not (.)

Note from Mike:
This goes on for a couple more paragraphs....

24 July 1817

Sir,
I have received Certificates that the following person have either moved or are actually removing within the settled limits of the State (of Georgia) (viz) Lewis Crow... 

Note from Mike: 
goes on to listed many of the names above, the WOODALLS are not on this list, but later in the letter says... [Thomas Woodall enlisted in War of 1812 for 5 yrs 20 Nov 1814, joined with Bro. George  & John]

"I presume it may be Calculated that all who have not Claims or pretend Claims to Indian protection are either already moved or will in a few days...

Sir with Esteem your ob't serv't
H. Montgomery

SOURCE: Telamon Cuyler Collection, Mss 1170, Box 47, Gov. Rabun papers, University of Georgia Library. 

WERE THESE "INTRUDERES BACK IN GEORGIA 
FOR THE 1820 CENSUS":

The Index to the U.S. Census of Georgia for 1820 (Georgia Historical Society Edition) has been checked. Where persons of similar names were found living in Georgia in 1820, their county of residences is given below.

Thos not found in the Georgia 1820 cnesus may have remained in the Cherokee Nation, moved to another state or territory, or died.

WOODALL, JOHN       Gwinnett Co
WOODALL, THOMAS Gwinnett Co
WOODALL, WILLIAM Gwinnett Co

SOURCE: Cherokee Letters, Georgia Archives.

1830 CASS COUNTY GA CENSUS

A comparison has been made bwtween names of this census list and the 1830 US census index for Georgia (Register edition). Persons with similar names found in any of the fire Georgia Border counties in the 1810 census are marked as follows:
$ = Dekalb 
*    Habersham
%  Gwinnett
+   Hall
#   Carroll

Page 10: A List of the number of Free White population 822nd District G. M. Cass County

THOMAS WOODALL $ ($ equals Dekalb)

Cherokee Agency, 
7th October 1830

Sir
After closing the list of person who are residing on the plantations abandoned by Emigrants it occurred to me that (it) might be desirous (desirable) to have the names of those white families who are in the (Cherokee) Nation and within the limits of Georgia under permits from the authorities of the nation--

I have therefore Concluded to accompany the other with a list of the persons who have permits from John Martin (Treasuror (of the Cherokee Nation) to imply White familys and their names so far as he has furnished me with that list--

It will be remembered that a number of them are issued Blank leaving the Applicant to employ whoever he pleases--
It is on the enclosed sheet.

Very respectfully, y'r Excellency's 
Obeient Servant,
H. Montgomery"

SOURCE: Cherokee Letters, page 238, 255-60, Georgia Arhcives.

PERSONS ALLOWED TO REMAIN IN THE CHEROKEE NATION
"The following person, having taken the oath prescribed by Law,
have benn permitted to continue their residence in that part of the 
State at present occupied by the Cherokee Indians, Viz.

                            Marital    No. of           Occupation
Name:                  Status     Children        Merchant
Thomas Woodall   wife             6                  Farmer
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(Also in this letterbook is a list of 208 names of person who had 
applied for residence in the Cherokee Nation:)

License for residence in the Cherokee Nation upon their
having filed proper affidavidts, has been issued to the following
persons, vis.:

                            Marital   No. of          Occupation
Name:                  Status    Children        Merchant
Thomas Woodall   wife           6                  Farmer

Downing > Tadpole > Woodall > Wagnon > White

1. Major John Downing [British Army] - wife Hanna Fawling (Cherokee)
    b. abt 1710 d. abt 17 Apr 1762                  b. abt 1720 d. 1754
 

2. John "Jack" Downing Jr - wife Nancy "Jennie" Fields (Cherokee)
    b. abt 1742 d. Unkn                No Dates
 

3. Sarah "Sallie" Downing - husband David Tadpole (both Cheorkee)
    b. abt 1784  d. Unkn                    No Dates


4. Nancy "Nannie" Tadpole (Cherokee) - husband Thomas Woodall Sr
     b. abt 1802 Cherokee Nation East                    b. 21 Feb 1793 NC
     d. 1875 Cheorkee Nation West IT OK             d. bet 1842/1861 CNWest IT OK

5. Margaret (Margurite) Peggy Woodall (Cherokee) - husband Marshall P Wagnon
   b. 1821 Marietta GA                                            b. 25 Nov 1827 Indian Territory AR       
   d. 1884 CNWest IT OK                                       d. 18 Apr 1863 Battle Fayetteville AR    

6. Thomas Forman Wagnon (1/2 Cherokee) - wife Lucinda Marie Sixkiller (Full Cherokee)
    b. 3 Apr 1851 Going Snake Dist IT OK             b. 12 Mar 1853 Cherokee Nation West
    d. 23 Dec 1911 Westville Adair Co OK             d. 27 Dec 1921 Westville Adain Co OK

7. Marshall J Wagnon (Over 1/2 Cherokee) - wife Elizabeth Osborn
     b. 15 Aug 1873 Cherokee Nation West OK     b. 9 May 1890 Benton Co AR
     d. 19 May 1930 Centralia Craig Co OK          d. 2 Mar 1973 Vinita Craig Co OK       

8. Mary Elizabeth Wagnon (1/4th Cherokee) - husband Benjamin August White
   b. 1 Mar 1920 Centralia Craig Co OK           b. 21 Dec 1921 Charlie Clay Co TX
   d. 26 Apr 1982 Oakland Alameda Co CA      d. 15 May 2007 Hayward Alameda Co CA


9. Michael  White (1/16th Cheorkee) [Daughter & Son 1/64th Cherokee]
    Living