Cherokee Nation Citizen - Youngdeer/John Tidwell Card Number 5967 - Cherokee By Blood.
Contributor: Kat Twilley (51115593)

Burial: Unkn; no marker

Father: (Ahwi'Nita) YOUNG DEER b: 1790 in Cherokee Nation, Forsyth Co., Georgia
Mother: Winnifred "Winny" Marie TIDWELL b: 1799 in Forsyth Co., Georgia

Marriage 1: Elizabeth "Betsy" GRAVITT b: ABT 1816 in South Carolina
Married: ABT 1831 in , Hall Co., Georgia
Children:
1. Calite Winnie Tidwell b. 1832
2. Mansell D. Tidwell b. 1836 in GA d. 1916 AL m. Rachel Levell
3. Chinessa Jeanett Tidwell (Click on: Chinessa Genettie Tidwell Dudley.) b. 1838 m. David Dudley

Marriage 2: Lucretia THOMPSON
Married: 1841 in Cobb County, GA
Children:
1. Lodusky Ann TIDWELL (Click on: Lodusky Ann Tidwell Brown.) b: 11 MAY 1845 in Cobb County, GA m. John Washington Brown
2. Pleasant H. TIDWELL (Click on: Pleasant H. Tidwell.) b: 9 SEP 1843 m. Martha Carnes
3. Mary A. TIDWELL b: 1 MAR 1847 m. (1) White, William H, m. (2) Sheffield, Thomas H
4. Grace Aminda TIDWELL b: 22 JAN 1849 m. Samuel Hughes
5. Versony N. TIDWELL b: 20 SEP 1850 m. William Dunaway
6. John Granville TIDWELL (Click on: John Granville Tidwell.) b: 30 SEP 1853
7. Marney Clementine TIDWELL b: 18 OCT 1854 m. Thomas Sheffield
8. Saphrona Caroline TIDWELL b: 12 OCT 1856 m. Unkn Ledford
9. William E. TIDWELL b: 11 NOV 1858
10. Pennington Washington TIDWELL b: 3 FEB 1861
11. Martha L. TIDWELL b: 8 JUL 1863
12. Minor Loveless TIDWELL (Click on: Minor L. Tidwell.) b: 14 SEP 1865
13. Leroy Jefferson TIDWELL b: 11 APR 1868
14. Ada Tabitha TIDWELL b: 3 FEB 1871

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John/Indian John Youngdeer Tidwell became a blacksmith & lived in Paulding Co., GA. John was abt 8-12 years old when his father Young Deer died.

After his marriage to Betsy, he continued to live in Forsyth Co. for a number of years.

Sometime in 1835, he went to IT, but soon returned to GA to raise his family. In March of that year, Tidwell and Charles Vicery (1/4 Cherokee, son of Henry and Charlotte Vickery) had been charged by the solicitor with having an "affray" on public street in Cumming and fighting in a "war-like manner" in a public place in town. A grand jury hearing the evidence failed to indict the 2 young men.

*By 1840, the family had moved to Cobb Co., GA.

*He is listed on the 1850 Census: Cobb Co., GA, with his wife Cresa (short for Lucretia).

*After marrying Lucretia in 1842, he was living with his family in 1860 in Paulding Co., GA, where several children were born and married.

By his 2 wives he had 17 mixed-blood children.

*In 1888, he applied for Cherokee citizenship through the Ordinary in Paulding Co.; his statements were read before the commission at Tahlequah, and James Hendricks, his 1st coustin, gave testimony on 04 Sep to support his claim as a descendant of the Cherokee race. He made this statement about their family relationship: "His father and my mother were brother and sister. I have seen John Tidwell. He was at our house and some 2 weeks before we emigrated to this country. He was some taller than me. He was older than me.

The father of John Tidwell was Ah-wee-nee-tah sinnifying Young Deer. I was bout 12 years old at the time of our emigration in 1932."

*John & Lucretia moved to IT in 1889 and settled at Stilwell in the Goingsnake Dist., CN, IT. On 24 Jul 1900, he applied for enrollment as a Cherokee by blood before the Dawes Commission to the 5 Civilized Tribes. He told the commission that he was 85 yrs old, born in GA, and was a Cherokee by blood, a halbreed Indian. Two years later, he was placed on the "Final Cherokee Roll by Blood."[Source: Don Shadburn]

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