Notes for Lorinda (Lucy) Equilla HAGGARD

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Notes for Lorinda (Lucy) Equilla HAGGARD

Willis (John) and Lucy Haggard had three daughters, all born in Montevallo, Shelby, Alabama:
Margaret Wood--1853-1860
Delila Wood--1855
Nancy Wood--1857
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By Billie Harris - Jan 13, 2001

The copy of the excerpt from this book was sent to me by Sherrell Randolph.
It's entitled "Cherokee By Blood, Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of claims 1906-1910", Volume 6, compiled by Jerry Wright Jordan and published by Heritage Books, Inc. Pages 359-360

"...Adelia T. Rounds, Tulsa, Okla.
Rejected. It does not appear that applicant's ancestors were parties to treaties of 1835-36-46, nor enrolled with Cherokees...
My name is Adelia T. Rounds. My age is 58 years. I live in Wagoner County. I was born in Alabama and raised there. i left in '76 and went to Texas. I have been in the Territory since '90. I do not know whether I was enrolled by the Dawes Commission as I made application but never heard from it. I did not get
the strip money although I applied to the Cherokee Council. I was born in 1850. I don't know that I was enrolled in 1851. Never heard of it. My grandmother moved from Tennessee into Alabama and I don't suppose she knew anything about it. I know why I was rejected for the strip money, which was
because I was not here in '76. I get my blood from my mother. She lives in Texas, near Shamrock. She is 78. She never got any of the payments. She put in application to the Dawes Commission, but never heard of it. The reason for my mother not being enrolled is that I think she did not know anything about it. In 1835 they were living in the lower part of Alabama. my mother was born in Alabama. My mother gets her blood from her mother. Sarah Gentry before marriage, Sarah Haggard after marriage, was my grandmother. Her mother was a Gentry before she married a Randolph. My mother's name Lucy Equilla Wood. I don't know whether they ever associated with any other tribe. My mother came out here with me. My grandmother and great-grandmother were born and raised in East Tennessee. I heard them speak about the treaties but I do not remember whether they were parties to them. I have no brothers and sisters.
Gentry Haggard was an uncle. James Randolph, Martin Luther and Henry and Noah and Samuel Larkins Haggard, also Susan Witt, nee Randolph, was an aunt. My grandmother's father was James Randolph. Claim Cherokee from the Randolphs, Creek from the Gentrys. He lived in Tennessee. I don't know whether he was ever enrolled, and if he was not, I do not know the reason why. I don't think he ever joined any other tribe. He was not full Cherokee; I think he must have been about a quarter. He got his blood from his father. He claimed back to Pocahontas. I don't know any brothers and sisters, except John Randolph of Roanoke was an uncle of my grandmother's. SIGNED: Adelia T. Woods; Rounds, Wagoner,
Okla. Aug. 9, 1908."

While none of us researching this particular line (descendants of Henry Randolph of Albemarle County) have found the "Indian" connection, this does reaffirm what has been passed down through various lines, that Pocahontas was an ancestor and John Randolph of Roanoke a relative. This is the first
reference I have heard, however, to him being James Randolph's brother (untrue) or possibly his uncle. --- billie

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