My second great grandmother was Frances Samanthra Bryant who married John Franklin Dunagan in 1854. She was born in 1835 in Hall county, GA, died 3 Jun 1933 in Jackson County, GA.
Frances Samanthra Bryant Dunagan was the daughter of Jeter Bryant and Sarah Frost. According to a deposition recorded July 7, 1908, in Gainesville, GA, by two of her sisters, Sarah Bryant Dunagan and Sofronia Bryant Latham, both Bryant sisters testified that their maternal great grandmother was a full blooded Eastern Cherokee Indian. Incidentally, Sarah Bryant had also married a Dunagan man, Ezekiel Dunagan, brother to John Franklin Dunagan, sons of Joseph Ellis Dunagan, State Senator from Hall County, GA, for 23 consecutive years.
The two sisters were applying for compensation from the Federal Government based on documented blood lines of Eastern Cherokee Indians who had been promised compensation for the lands taken in the treaty of 1835 which of course resulted in the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia.
Below is a copy of the depositions made by Sofronia and Sarah:
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Do you know if they won the deposition? I am a descendant of Ezekiel Dunagan, as well. I'd love to hear more about this.
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Katie