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Esther Burgess Verification?

Esther Burgess Verification?

Posted: 23 Sep 2007 7:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Poag, McBride, Burgess
I have often read from the family information on the internet that our ancestor, Esther Burgess, was Chickasaw. I hate to question family lore, but do we really know for a fact? The only source I've seen cited is a genealogy book called The History of Wayne County. Experience has shown time and time again that oral family accounts of Native ancestry are all too often erroneous.

I don't doubt Esther's Native ancestry, but I am starting to wonder about the specific tribe. I cannot seem to find anyone in the Chickasaw tribe with the last name of Burgess on the Dawes Roll. I see plenty of Burgesses in the Creek tribe, however. Is it possible that the person giving the account in The History of Wayne County mixed up the tribes?

Re: Esther Burgess Verification?

Posted: 4 Aug 2008 7:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Wiggs, Poag, Burgess, Christenberry
This is from some information I received in 2004. According to family stories, some of Esther Burgess' family moved to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears.
best regards
Bob Eubanks
Leesburg, FL


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CHICKASAW NATION MARRIAGES
ARDMORE COURTHOUSE
GROOM INDEX
1895 - 1907
Transcribed by MARY TURNER KINARD
COPYRIGHT 27 APR 1992 Mary Kinard
P - Q SURNAMES

POAG, THOMAS B 26 ROBERTSON, MINNIE 19 16 OCT 1907 WAYNE/CHICKASHA K©562

B SURNAMES
BURGESS, A J 21 TURNER, LULA 18 14 SEP 1899 LEBANON/EMET D©310
BURGESS, C J 21 MARTIN, LAURA B 18 19 JUN 1902 HOXBAR F©382
BURGESS, E W 25 HENLEY, ELLEN 25 11 NOV 1903 LONE GROVE G©479
BURGESS, EDGAR 21 DRAPER, EDNA 19 29 APR 1906 COALGATE J©214
BURGESS, O K 27 COPPLEMAN, FLORENCE BELL 17 31 OCT 1897 RYAN C 167©662
BURGESS, T I 21 THREEWIT, ANNIE 20 27 DEC 1896 DIXIE B 439©884
BURGESS, W A 27 HOLT, LIZZIE 17 1 AUG 1900 MARSDEN/ORINE E©46
BURGESS, W N 25 HUNT, N 19 3 DEC 1895 HEALDTON A 384©659
BURGESS, WILLIAM O 20 MATTHEWS, NANNIE BELL 17 17 OCT 1907 LEBANON K-473

Re: Esther Burgess Verification?

Posted: 6 Oct 2013 11:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Burgess, Poag
I know it has been 6 years since your post, but perhaps others will find this helpful, if somewhat disappointing. You are right to be suspicious of the family legend, as it is almost certainly a myth.

My wife is the 3rd great granddaughter of this Esther/Easter Burgess through her daughter Sarah. Having recently completed an mtDNA test, we learned that this maternal line is T2b13a, a maternal line of European descent. While it is not impossible that Esther was herself the offspring of a Chickasaw man and European female who came to live with the native Americans, that is really the only scenario that would allow the family legend any chance of accuracy.

Esther belongs to a European maternal line, not a native American one.

Re: Esther Burgess Verification?

Posted: 7 Oct 2013 7:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello,

It's been 6 years, but I'm still around, and researching this stuff. :-)

I am very interested in this, and I'd like to email and exchange some information.

Thanks
Janet Goodman
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