White Top Chief William H. Blevins

Media file	Title: White Top Chief William H. Blevins Media type: story Format: htm
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OBJE:_META	<metadataxml><content><line>WHITE TOP LAUREL BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS<br>-----------------------------<br>White Top Mountain is located at tristate southwestern VA (Independence, Grayson Co), northwestern NC (Ashe Co), northeastern TN (Mountain City, Johnson Co).<br>-----------------------------<br>The people that lived in this tristate area were a mixture of several different races. However the one thing they all had in common was their Indian blood. Many of the European settlers that moved into this area had intermarried with the tribe that claimed the area.....the Cherokee. The land there was ruled by Cherokee Chief Red Bird Sr. He was the son of Chief Willenawah (Great Eagle) of Tellico, Tennessee and the grandson of Moytoy - Great Empereor of the Cherokees and Chief of Tellico, Tennessee. He was the great grandson of Amodoya Moytoy. Chief Red Bird was very friendly to early settlers and his children and family even married some of them as well as Indians from other tribes. He was murdered by white settlers as was his son Chief Red Bird Jr. (Cutsuwah or Aaron Brock), a 1806 &amp; 1807 treaty signer, just before the Trail of Tears. His daughter was Mary &quot;Polly&quot; Brock. His decendents still live and they still claim Cherokee blood to this day. Many different names have been applied to these people, but they people prefer to be known as mixed-blooded Cherokee Indians, because no matter what mixture of blood they have in them, they all have the Cherokee blood in common.<br>-----------------------------<br>Over 2,000 of these people formed the White Top Laurel Band of Cherokee Indians. The band was formed 60 years after the Trail of Tears and nine years before the Eastern Band in 1905.<br>-----------------------------<br>The band was made up mostly of family members of Cherokee Chief Red Bird. They were displaced and without a government for many years until the organization of the White Top band. This band also took in members who escaped the Trail of Tears. There was a roll taken in 1909 called the Guion Miller rolls. The rolls were 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. This 2,000 member band applied for membership onto these rolls to be accepted as members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, North Carolina.<br>-----------------------------</line></content></metadataxml>
OBJE:_CREA	2021-04-12 20:50:25.000
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Alive Dead Death>100 Death<=100 Birth>100 Birth<=100 Roots Leaves
Given names	Surname	Sosa	Birth		Place		Death		Age	Place	Last change
Lydia Sizemore Lydia SIZEMORE (About 1\2 Cherokee) Lydia Rose Father: George All Ned Sizemore Mother: Anna Elizabeth Hart				July 28, 1774 1744 1735	249	Ashe, North Carolina, United States Wilkes, North Carolina Wilkes, North Carolina	6	December 7, 1830 December 7, 1830	193	56	North Carolina, United States Ashe, North Carolina	Never	F	YES	YES

Both alive Widower Widow Both dead Roots Leaves Not married Marriage>100 Marriage<=100 Divorce Multiple marriages
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