My great grandmother was Elizabeth (Head) Caudle. Does anyone know ANYTHING abou

Question:Head is believed to be shortened from the Cherokee name of Bushyhead. It is believed her mother was Jane Dial. Any info would help as I'm working on my genealogy.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Head is believed to be shortened from the Cherokee name of Bushyhead. It is believed her mother was Jane Dial. Any info would help as I'm working on my genealogy.

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Elizabeth Francis HEAD
Birth: 1831 , , North Carolina
Death: About 1900 , Wright County, Missouri

Elizabeth's Parents:
Father: Isaac Head
Mother: Jane Deal (also listed as DIAL)

Spouse: George Annual Caudle
Birth: About 1824 , , North Carolina
Death: About 1895
Marriage: 26 OCT 1851 , Surry, North Carolina

www.ancestry.com : U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900--

Name: Elizabeth Frances Head
Gender: female
Birth Place: NC
Birth Year: 1831
Spouse Name: George Annual Caudle
Spouse Birth Place: NC
Spouse Birth Year: 1824
Marriage Year: 1851
Marriage State: NC
Number Pages: 1

Elizabeth's PARENTS:
Isaac Head
Born: 1802,Surry,,North Carolina,USA
Died: 1847,Surry,,North Carolina,USA
Married: 5 Jan 1821 in Surry County, NC

Jane Deal
Born: 1798,North Carolina,USA
Died: Aft 1880 in Yadkin County, NC

Isaac's PARENTS: (Elizabeth's grandparents)

William Head
Born: 1740,Virginia,USA
Died: 10 Sep 1836, Surry,North Carolina,USA
Marriage 16 Apr 1791 in Surry,North Carolina,USA to:

Sarah Curry
Born: 1768, North Carolina,USA
Died: 1850, Surry,North Carolina,USA

William Head's PARENTS: (Elizabeth's great-grandparents)
George Head
Born: 1723, Orange,,Virginia,USA
Died: 1780, Surry,North Carolina,USA
They married in VIRGINIA, in 1740
Elizabeth Dearing
Born: 1723, Virginia,USA
Died: 1781-01-06, Surry,North Carolina,USA

George Head's PARENTS: (Elizabeth's GG-grandparents)
William Head, Jr
Born:
Died: 1711, Richmond,,Virginia,USA
(NOTE: also saw him listed as ANTHONY HEAD. Could William be a middle name??)

Wife unknown

William Head,Sr (Elizabeth's 3rd Great-grandparents)
Born: 1626, Accomack,,Virginia,USA
Died: 1710, St Marys Parish,,Virginia,USA
They married in 1695 (he was age 69).
Mary
Born: Richmond,Virginia,USA
Died:

William Head, Sr's Parents (Elizabeth's 4th great-grandparents):
James Head
Born: 1605, Hithe,,,England
Died: 1682, Accomack,,Virginia,USA

Grace
Born:
Died: Accomack,,Virginia,USA

(Note: I just looked up both the Dawes Final Rolls and the Guion-Miller Rolls, and could find NO listing on either one for Elizabeth or her parents. For any of her family--if indeed part of one of the 5 Civilized Tribes of Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, or Seminole--to be listed, they would have had to be forcibly moved from their homes in the east to the Oklahoma Territory in 1836 on the "Trail of Tears". The following is what the Dawes Commission set out to do:

The American Dawes Commission, named for its first chairman Henry L. Dawes, was authorized under a rider to an Indian Office appropriation bill, March 3, 1893. Its purpose was to convince the Five Civilized Tribes to agree to cede tribal title of Indian lands under an allotment process to the individual Indian, enacted in 1887. In November 1893, President Grover Cleveland appointed Dawes as chairman, and Meridith H. Kidd and Archibald S. McKennon as members.
During this process, the Indian nations were stripped of their communally-held national lands, and the land was divided up into single lots and given to individual members of the nation. However, to prove you were a member of a tribe, you had to declare membership in one and only one tribe to a national registry known as the Rolls.
People often had mixed blood, sharing several tribes, so 1/4 Cherokee and 1/4 Creek must register simply as '1/4 Cherokee,' thereby formally losing part of their heritage by fiat of government. On top of all this, many Indian tribes did not consider 'blood' the only criteria as to whether you belonged to a tribe, but the Dawes commission did. The last blow to logic was that many Freedmen or Slaves of Indians who were freed after the civil war, were kept off the rolls.
The result of the Dawes Commission was that Indian nations lost most of their national land. This cleared the way for white settlers looking for oil riches and rich farm land to come into the territories in areas such as Tulsa, buy up the small lots from the Indians, and set up towns. The Indians now had more money but had lost their territory to such an extent that it crippled their nations for many years to come.
The Guion Miller Rolls index includes the names of 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.It was a kind of census, and the person applying had to be living in Oklahoma at the time they applied. The farthest west I saw your family members getting was Elizabeth's death in 1900 in Missouri.

Go to the local Mormon church and they have a lot of local and world geneology documents for free. Good-luck!

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No indication that the name was Bushyhead... more important tip might be contained in this message that references enrollment cards (w/ location) and number(s). If Isaac d. 1847, he himself won't be on the rolls, but a descendant may be. Be sure to track down that original item.. it also is possible it may be among the applications that were rejected.
Several files are also at rootsweb.com... with good looking sources shown. Head goes back into VA.

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I repeat what is standard.. any online 'source' is not the same as an original source.

No mention of "Bushyhead" all the way back to 1675. So, here's your family back to your great, great, great, great, great grandparents.

Elizabeth Frances Head
b. 10/25/1831 in Surry, North Carolina
d. 1900 in Norwood, Missouri
Husband: George Annual Caudle
b. 1824 North Carolina
d. 1895 Missouri
Married on 10/21/1851 in Surry, North Carolin
Children: Gracie Jane Caudle: b. 6/5/1852 d. 6/22/1911
George Pleasant Caudle: b. 1857
Nancy M. Caudle b. 1858
Elizabeth Caudle b. 1860
Wiley James Caudle b. 1862
Chestine Ann Caudle b. 1863
William Spencer Caudle: b. 1866
Mary Elvira Caudle: b. 1868
Narcissa I. Caudle: b. 1869
Thomas A. Caudle: b. 1870

Parents of Elizabeth Frances Head:
Isaac Head b. 1802 North Carolina d. 1847 North Carolina
Jane Dial b. 1798 North Carolina d. Aft. 1870 in North Carolina
They were married 1/5/1821 in Surry, North Carolina

Parents of Issac Head:
William Head b. 1740 in Virginia d. 9/10/1836 North Carolina
Sarah Curry b. 1768 d. 1850
They were married 4/16/1791 in North Carolina

Parents of William Head:
George Head b. Abt. 1723 d. Abt. 1781
Elizabeth Dearing b. Abt. 1723 d. Abt. 1781

Parents of George Head:
William Head b. 1675 in Virginia
Sarah (unknown) b. 1680 d. 1742
They were married in 1740 in Virginia