Cherokee Indians from Georgia -XYZ-
York, John B., born 1829 in Georgia, resident of Rabun County, Georgia in 1850. Wife, Sarah, was born 1828 in Georgia. Issue: Mahulda C., born 1849 in Rabun County, and Andrew Jackson, born 1852 in Rabun County.
York, Andrew Jackson, the son of John B. York, was born 1852 in Rabun County, Georgia (is claim says 1849, however, he was not listed on the 1850 census, but listed on the 1880 Rabun County Census at Chechero as being aged 28). He married Mary E., born 1857 in Tennessee. Children: Mary L., born 1873 in Rabun County; Iden B. (daughter), born 1874 in Rabun County; and George W., born 1876 in Rabun County.
Sary Ann York applied, her claim #3656, from Clayton, Georgia (rejected) to the U. S. Court of Claims. One of the deponents on her application was Andrew Jackson York.
"My name is Andrew Jackson York and I reside at Clayton, Georgia. I was born in Rabun County, Georgia in 1849. I claim relationship to the Cherokee Indians through my mother, Sarah Ann York (maiden name - Chastain)....and she claims through both her mother and father. Her father's name was William Chastain and her mother;s name before marriage was Annie Mote, both of them being half blood Cherokee Indians, and they claim back of that to both the Mote family and Chastain family. My mother was born in BUrke County, North Carolina in 1820. My mother married my father, John Benson York, who was a white man, about the year 1840...My mother's father, William Chastain, was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina. My mother's mother, Annie Chastain, whose maiden name was Annie Mote, was born in Cherokee County, North Carolina. My mother and her family from 1830 to 1840 lived in Oconee County, South Carolina. Ever since 1840 my mother has lived up to the present time in Rabun County, Georgia.... My mother's brothers and sisters were as follows. James Chastain or Chasteen, Eli Chasteen, William Chasteen, John Chastain, Van Chasteen, Nancy Ann Chesteen who married Mark Burrill, Bettie Chasteen, who married Gipson, Jane Chasteen who married John Vison, Judah Chasteen who married John Vinson, Judah Chasteen who married William Chamberlain, Margaret Chasteen who married David Vison...."/s/Andrew J. York, Clayton, Georgia, July 11, 1908.
Youngdeer. Cherokee from Georgia, known a a full-blooded Indian, left Georgia ca 1835 to go to the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, according a grandson, Pleasant Tidwell, who applied for money (1906-1910) in the U. S. Court of Claims. He said that his father was John Tidwell, who migrated in 1835, received funds at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, but later returned to his home in Georgia. Young Deer had a granddaughter, Beulah Walkingstick. Youngdeer and his father's names appeared on the Drennen Roll, as "Big Te-choo-lau-eh" and "Youngdeer." Che-ka-yoo-ee was admitted to the Drennan Rols with her husband, Kah-na-see-ta-skee in Oaks, Oklahoma. The application of Lydia Santafee from Oaks Oklahoma, #1423 stated: "I am the sister of Che-Ka-yoo-ayoo Youngdeer, who died in February of 1909. Her husband was Ka-na-soo-ta-skee (on 1851 Roll) and had a son, William. SEE Tidwell.
You-sow, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, was in Toccoa Wednesday. He is twenty-four years of age, rather compactly built, and long, glossy, black hair. He left his nation last June. He was a little shy, but talked English frequently. The Constitution, Atlanta 3/22/1886.