Sherry Shafer

The photo is of my great grandfather times 3 Jesse Stinson Boatright born December 11,1830 at Madison,Kentucky.Death was at Wagoner,Oklahoma November 9,1905.He was the father of 16 children.He left Platte Co. Missouri about 1857 and went to Arkansas.About 1862 he moved to Texas to escape the turmoil of living in northern Arkansas during the Civil war.He returned to Van Buren Co. Arkansas about 1866 then moved to Wagoner,Indian Tertritory,Oklahoma.Jesse taught school in his younger years,he was also a merchant and an insurance salesman.In the 1890's he was secretary of the Watt's Assn.It was here he spent considerable time and money in trying to prove the family had Cherokee Indian Ancestry which came from the Blackburn Family of Virginia.He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge.

My great grandmother times 3,was born at Cooper County Missouri March 1,1837.Died January 23,1910 at Wagoner,Oklahoma.She married Jesse S. Boatrighht October 22,1852 near Butler in Bates Co. Missouri.She was the mother of 16 children.She was one of 4 daughters of Isaac Newton Miller and Elizabeth Jane Martin.Mary Eveline applied for the Cherokee Rolls in 1906.Her father Isaac was part Cherokee.One source says the Cherokee bloodline came thru his father,Andrew Miller.Another source says it also came thru Isaac's mother Nancy.

Dawes Roll Application

The second page of the Cherokee Dawes Roll Application of Jesse S. Boatright and Family