Margaret Peggy Caroline Hammond - Update on Cherokee research information.

Im not saying im right just showing what I can find. Others say she was a different woman and the family was rejected but I haven't seen anything to prove this. It could also mean that the parents listed here Could be wrong. Im not here to argue just to post why I have the opinion I do.

The Caroline Hammond who filed Eastern Cherokee application 30641 was not your relative.

She was born in Georgia in 1842, the daughter of Jesse and Mary (Sorrow) Hammond.

Her husband was named Remus Hammond.

Her grandparents were born in Virginia.

Neither she not her parents appear on any of the rolls of Cherokee East of the Mississippi created between 1851 and 1907.

All of this information is in Caroline's Eastern Cherokee application on Fold3 at
https://www.fold3.com/image/222127229

and that of her cousin James Sorrow https://www.fold3.com/image/221990869

The Caroline Hammond who filed the Eastern app was living with her parents in Oglethorpe, Georgia in 1860. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZMG-5J4 : 18 February 2021), Caroline Hammond in entry for Jessee Hammond, 1860.

Margaret Caroline Hammond married Oliver Norwood in 1848 when the other Caroline Hammond was only six years old. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXV9-9CQ : 7 February 2020), Oliver H. P. Norwood and Margaret Caroline Hammond, 10 Dec 1848; citing Marriage, Cherokee, Georgia, United States, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, FHL microfilm 325,922.

Most public libraries offer free access to Fold3.

It's worth noting that out of the 90,000+ people who were named in Eastern Cherokee applications only 30,000 turned out to be Cherokee or Cherokee descendants.

Correction information proving there not the same was finally found.