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- Excerpted from "Cherokee by Blood", by Jerry Wright Jordan,taken from The U.S. Court of Claims: 1906-1910, Volume 2, Applications 1551 to 4200, p. 198;
"Misc. Test(imony), p. 1392, 4969-2661 - Mahala Clonts:
That I am 79 years of age. I claim my Indian descent through my father; my mother was white. My father's father claimed to be Indian. His name was Abraham Hembree. My father was born and raised in N. C., Burke Co. He left Burk Co. but I don't know when. I was born in Rutherford Co.,N.C. I don't know where my grandfather was born and raised. I never lived with the Indians.
I lived in Hamilton Co., Tenn. among the Indians when I was a little girl, and my grandfather lived there too among the Indians. My father had something to do with the Indians - with the tribal matters.
He was enrolled in 1851 and 1835. My grandfather was enrolled in 1835 but he was dead in 1851.
My father was enrolled under the name Hembree. The name might have been Emory. In 1851 I was married to a man named Clonts. I never received anything from the government and my father did not either. My brother Jack Hembree received land in Ind. Terr. in recent years, since the war. My father did not have any Indian name that I ever heard of. All of my grandparents were white except my grandfather. My husband was white. I am recognized as white woman with Indian blood. Don't know how much Indian my father was. He showed a good deal of the Indian. My father died in 1882. I was living in Gilmer Co., Ga. in the eighties. I came here and enrolled my children at that time. I enrolled them before A. M. Johnson. That was to get so much money and so much land. We were to get land in the west. Never received any money yet nor land neither.
Outside of Charlie Hester, a neighbor, I never heard of a man by the name of Hester. I am acquainted with Effie M. Chapman (15037). Her grandfather was my first cousin, that is, on her mother's side. Her great grandfather, Reuben Hembree, his mother was my aunt, she being a sister of my father. She claims her Indian descent through the same source as I do and thro no other source.
Signed: Mahala "X" Clonts, Ellijay,Ga., Jul 10 1908."
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Found in the "Marriages of Rutherford County,NC: 1782-1868", Volume I, pp. 198 & 310:
Groom: Bride: Date: Bondsman & Witnesses:
Upton, Thomas x Ruth Hembree 20 Aug 1789 Willim x Queen & William Moore
(w) Isac. Whiteside
Hembree, Abram x Levina Floyd 25 Aug 1830 John-x- Floyd
(w) Isaac Craton,CC
Hembree, Isaac Elizabeth White 4 Jan 1830 Abraham -x- Hembree
(w) T.F.Birchett,DC
Hembree, James Delilah Hembree 22 Jul 1852 Davis Hembree
(w) R.L.Gilkey,JP
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Found in, "Murray County (GA) Heritage", compiled by the Murray County History Committee, 1987;
p. 287: "The long abandoned graveyard [Little Bethel Church] has several unmarked burials in addition to the graves of James Lee Hembree...".
p. 344: Humphrey Hembree is associated with the Brakebill Methodist Episcopal Church in the Spring Hill Community during the 1850's.
p. 511: A.J. Hembree is identified as a member of the Sumach Masonic Lodge, in 1942.
p. 640: "...Louise [Latch] m. a Hembree." (middle-nineteenth-century)
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Abstracted from "Marriage Records of McMinn County, Tennessee 1820-1870", Researched, Compiled and Edited by Reba Bayless Boyer, 1964, p. 56:
"Clonts, John to Caroline Emery 6 Mar 1850".
Note: No other CLONTS listed...DAH
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Subject: Mahalia Clonts
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:57 AM
Hi David,
Barbara and I were in D. C. two weeks ago and spent an afternoon in the National Archives looking at 1906 "Cherokee" applications. Mahalia's application didn't give any indication that Jack, John Hembree was her brother. Letters in the file show she was requested to resubmit her application because they couldn't read the writing in the original application. She did, and of all things, I forgot to copy it.
I could not find Abraham Hembree's application. It had the same file # as Margaret's and wasn't with her file.
I did make a copy of Margaret's application. She did not list Jack Hembree as a half brother as Sarah Jane did. She did list Mary as a sibling (other family members did not) who died in 1904.
Monroe Hembree's application did not show any relationship to Abraham or Mahalia Hembree. He failed to show up for an appointment with an agent in Blue Ridge, Ga.
Do yo want Margaret's application?
Till next time, John R. and Barbara
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