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From a letter May 1971, from Ross Faudree, Caddo, Oklahoma. Mr. Faudree wrote:
“My Great Grandmother, Full Blood Cherokee, came from Georgia on the Trail of Tears, her Cherokee name was Red Bird, married a white man, a non-citizen, by name of Beck, and then on was called Martha Beck; she and her husband owned and worked a grist mill in, or near the Old Cherokee Capitol. Grandmother, ½ Cherokee, born to Martha Beck near Tahlequah, was named Elizabeth Beck. She married William Giles Ward, who was 1/4th Choctaw. They married in 1868, Blue County, Choctaw Nation. They lived in and around Tahlequah 1890-1893 and drew Elizabeth’s Cherokee payments (as one of Martha Beck’s children) Elizabeth Beck Ward, called Liza, is known to have had the following elder sisters: Sarah, Nancy and Mary. Sarah married young, died early in life; Nancy married William Hampton, they had children by name of Fannie and Mary, called May. Nancy died when the children were young and we believe they were raised in the Cherokee Orphanage. Fannie and Mary Hampton are 1/8th blood Cherokee. Mary Beck married to Issac (? Transcription) Allen, a non-citizen, they had a boy called Osceola (? Transcription) Allen, 1/4th Cherokee.
My Mother was born to Eliza Beck Ward, was given the name Martha Elizabeth Ward, she was always told that she was 1/4th Cherokee, and from her Father, William Giles Ward, 1/8th Choctaw. Martha Elizabeth Ward married ___?___ Faudree. She died when I was 7 days old in 1901, in Octover. She died before enrollment and is not enrolled. I am on the Choctaw rolls, and received an allotment of land (as) Ross Faudree, 1/64th Blood Choctaw.
Since I received my Choctaw land we never established the Cherokee. Both my parents are deceased but my mother, Martha Elizabeth Ward Faudree has one brother, Henry Giles Ward, and one sister, Daisy Ward Walter still living here at Caddo, OK. Uncle Henry and Aunt Daisy are full first consins to Osceolla Allen, 1/4th Cherokee and they also had a cousin, Fredrick Beck, who use to stay with the. He was the son of Dick Beck and Samantha Beck.”
End of Letter.
I went to the Cherokee Nation’s Capitol in Tahlequah and found the following on Micro-Film:
“Cha-wa-yi-ki (Redbird) Ninekiller, of the Going Snake District, later called Martha Beck when she married McDaniel Beck.
Also…published in the Bishinik, (the Official Newspaper of the Choctaw Nation) page 3, January 1997, a story about my Grandmother, Original Enrollee, Choctaw Nation: Both of Lily’s Great Grandmother’s on her Father’s side came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. When the Choctaw had to move from Mississippi, Lucy Elizabeth Thompson was only 5 years old. She was a descendant of Chief Pushmataha. She moved to the Boggy Depot area where her father, Giles Thompson, established a salt works, the only one in the area, and became a prosperous rancher and business man, selling salt to the other Indians, white settlers, military people and all.
Lucy Elizabeth grew up and married Joseph Henry Ward who had come to the area as a boy with his mother from New Jersey, who was contracted by the U.S. Government to “teach skills to the Indians of the Choctaw Nation’ in a contract dated 1841. All their children settled in (the) Ft. Towson, Caddo, Atoka and Kiowa, Oklahoma area.
Lily’s other great-grandmother was Martha Redbird, a Cherokee, who came on the Trail of Tears as a girl. Her daughter, Eliza Beck, married William Giles Ward, one of the sons of Joseph Henry and Elizabeth (Thompson) Ward. They lived in the Caddo area when Lily’s father, Joseph McDaniel Ward, was born. Lilly’s mother was Minnie Rosa Head.
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