Mattie Hardwick

Notes:

Mattie was shown as 1/8 Chickasaw by blood when she enrolled in the Chickasaw Nation.

Lissa Johnston shows that she later married a Mr. Norman and a Mr. Yates.

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Tribe: Chickasaw
Record Type: enrollment
Sex: M
Enrollment Type: P (Parent)
Card No.: 528

Credit belongs to the staff of SW National Archives, Fort Worth, Texas, who compiled the names from the Dawes Enrollment Cards for its National Archives


Others with this Family:
Surname First Name Type Sex Age Blood %

Hardwick Joe P (Parent) M
Ryle M D P (Parent) M
Ryle Nancy P (Parent) F
Ryle Whitmill A BB (By Blood) M 30 IW
Ryle Mattie BB (By Blood) F 20 1/8
Ryle Emma BB (By Blood) F 4 1/16
Ryle Minnie May BB (By Blood) F 2 1/16 (sic, s/b Nannie)
Ryle Nannie May BB (By Blood) F 2 1/16
Ryle Jesse Lee BB (By Blood) F 1 1/16
Ryle W H BB (By Blood) M 1 1/16

Mattie married Whitmill A. "W.A." Ryle on 17 Aug 1892 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Whitmill was born in Jun 1868 in Missouri; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
License application signed by R.B. Willis, Judge County Court, Pickens County, on the Eighth day of August, 1892. I.S. Crutchfield certified that on the seventeenth day of August, A.D. 1892, he united in marriage W.A. Ryle and Mattie Hardwick, The license was filed for record on the fourteenth day of September 1892 by Isaac O. Lewis, Clerk.

Jon Eastman Hardwick writes that she "had a daughter show lived at Broken Bow. Her daughter's first husband was Mr. Norman and second Mr. Yates."

1. Emma Ryle was born in Sep 1892 in Indian Territory; and died.
2. Nannie May Ryle was born in Nov 1895 in Indian Territory; and died.
3. Jessie Lee Ryle was born on 20 Oct 1897 in Addington, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory; and died.
4. Whitmill H. Ryle was born on 31 Dec 1899 in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory; and died.

Notes:

His tombstone has his date of birth as March 31, 1850, and date of death as January 1, 1884.

Could he have been born later than 1850? Not listed with his parents on the 1850 Tippah County, Mississippi census, although a John, 2 months old, is listed.

From National Archives M2086 Roll 1

1878 Chickasaw Annuity Roll Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory

#64-Hardwick Dave 1 Male, 1 Female Head of Household 1 Female Child (Self) 3 Family Members Total (Brother)

#65 Hardwick George 1 Male Head of Household 1 Family Member Total (Brother)

#193 Hardwick J C 1 Male, 1 Female Head of Household 1 Female Child (Self) 3 Family Members Total

Pickens County Court Records GS 1666430

16 Feb 1871 the following named summons were issued to L.M. Parker, Simon Keel, Charles Love, James H. Jones, David Jones, Brit Willis, Jo Hardwick. Docketed for March Term of County Court. The above defendants were summoned to attend on March 7, 1876 to answer the complaint of said court. Reported for introducing intoxicating spiritous liquors into Pickens County. Also with rioting at the house temporarily occupied by Wallace Word, Unah in tubby and others. Also rioting at the house of Mr. Williams. (Note: it appears that the case against Brit Willis, Joseph Hardwick and Charles Love was taken up and investigated and dismissed by the court).

In August 1875, Joe C. Hardwick was summoned as a witness for the Chickasaw Nation vs. Walison. Joe C Hardwick saw Walison with a pistol.

Jon Eastman Hardwick, in his article in "Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Volume II" writes that he was "killed on January 1, 1884. He was a sheriff."

Joseph married Sally Beth Huff on 7 Jan 1876 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. Sally was born on 16 Feb 1857; died before 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Hardwick, Joe C. [Joseph] Huff, Sallie B. [Beth] 1/7/76 Robt. L. Boyd, District Judge Pickens Co. Records from "Marriages in the Chickasaw Nation 1855 - 1907"

(http://home.flash.net/~kma/m_index.htm)

There have been many collections published regarding marriages performed in the Chickasaw Nation, 1855 - 1907, but those collections concern only marriages performed under United States marriage licenses AND NOT Chickasaw Tribal licenses. The collection of marriage records included herein are those which were recorded or mention in the surviving records of the old Chickasaw Nation, the majority of which were performed under tribal license.

http://www.chickasawhistory.com/g_mar_2.htm

Jon Eastman Hardwick, in his article in "Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Volume II" writes that they both are buried under a tree on the old Hardwick place near Powell. A double headstone marks the place. He also indicated they had a son named Frank.

Notes:

Hardwick, John C.- white resident among the Chickasaws, was possibly the
last white man to marry a Chickasaw in Mississippi. He married Elizabeth
Jane Boyd (born February 3, 1828), daughter of James M. and Nancy Boyd,
in Marshall County, Mississippi. on November 25, 1844 (1). The couple
lived in Tippah County, Mississippi, in 1850, but moved west in 1852.
When they died is unknown, though they were in Pickens County in the
Chickasaw Nation in 1870. they were the parents of James (1847), Joseph
C. (1850-1884), John David (1852-1889), George D. (1854-1889), and Nancy
(married John T. Huff) (2).

(1) Garland, 130-134.
(2) Ibid. John C. Hardwick was probably related to the Bourlands.
John B. Bourland, son of Ebenezer Bourland, was born in Hopkins County,
Kentucky, and married Nancy R. Hardwick, daughter of James Hardwick of
Tennessee and wife Nancy Melar (Speer and Brown, ARK:35).
That is the only Hardwick listed. There are no Hardricks...

From "Who Was Who Among The Southern Indians", (Page 204)
a genealogical notebook, 1698-1907 by Don Martini, 929.314, printed in
1998, Falkner, MS. It is a guide to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek Indian
tribes and the relatives/possible relatives.

(Transcription by Lola Crane, original not viewed)

Lissa Johnston shows he was the Sheriff of Pickens County, Oklahoma in 1870. She cites Marie King Garland's book, "Chickasaw Loves and Allied Families" as the source of her information about the Hardwick family.

In April, 1872, J.C. Hardwick was summoned as a witness on a (judical) case and paid $5 for his services.

On October 16, 1872, the County Judge appointed J.C. Hardwick County Treasury of Pickens County.

On the 21 of May, 1873, J.C. Hardwick was ordered to pay himself $1000 for building and furnishing a court house for Pickens County.

(Research):Census Listings:

1850 Census
Mississippi, Tippah County, The Third Division
Enumerated 9 September 1850
155-155
John Hardwick 35 M Farmer Tenn
Jane Hardwick 28 F Miss
James Hardwick 3 M Miss
John Hardwick 2/12 M Miss

1860 Census
The Choctaw Nation, Indian Lands, Arkansas, P. O. Skullyville
Enumerated 29 October 1860
Page 19
216-216
James M. Boyd 63 M Farmer Mississippi
Mat Ault 30 M Miller Pennsylvania
John Ireby 31 M Wagoner Alabama
Christopher Wagoner 30 M Sawyer in Mill Germany
John C. Hardwick 35 M Carpenter Tennessee
J.W. Beam 31 M Carpenter S. Carolina

John married Elizabeth Jane Boyd on 25 Dec 1844 in Marshall County, Mississippi. Elizabeth (daughter of James M. Boyd and Nancy Mahota Love) was born on 3 Feb 1828 in Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jon Eastman Hardwick wrote that Elizabeth Jane Boyd was baptized at Martyn Mission.

Notes:

Married:
J.L. Christian, now deceased, posted the following query to a rootsweb message board:

Looking for leads to John C. HARDWICK parents, siblings, etc. in Tennessee. Was able to traced him back only to the Sept. 9, 1850 census in Tippah County, Miss. No trace before that time. John was Born abt. 1815 in Tennessee. He died before 1878?, Chickasaw Nation, Pickens County, Indian Territory. John married Elizabeth Jane BOYD 25 December 1844 in Mississippi. Elizabeth Jane BOYD a daughter of Nancy Mahota LOVE. Nancy LOVE was a daughter of Thomas LOVE and Homahota (Chickasaw Indian). Elizabeth was born 03 February 1828 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. John and Elizabeth children were;

1. James HARDWICK, born abt. 1847.
2. Joseph C. HARDWICK, born 31 March 1850.
3. John David HARDWICK, born 1852.
4. George HARDWICK, born abt. 1854.
5. Nancy L. HARDWICK, born 08 October 1858.

Notes: When John and Elizabeth left Mississippi (date unknown), they moved to a place called Poteau Hill near Fort Smith, Arkansas. It appears they lived near Elizabeth's parents for a while. On 16th of December 1854, they purchased a farm in Pickens county, I.T. from Robert H. LOVE, Bob LOVE had purchased the farm from his half brother's ( Ben LOVE) widow Charlotte CHOATE. It was known as the Cow Pen place in the lower Cross Timbers. (Source: Chickasaw Nation Records, Book 59, page 70). The farm was located on the west side of Horse Creek near its mouth and alone the north bank of Red River in Pickens County, C.N. and upon sections 16-15-21, Range 4, Township 7 east and south of
Arbuckle. (Source: Chickasaw Nation Records, Book 48, page 87)

John C. HARDWICK served as sheriff of Pickens County in 1870 and as County Treasurer from 1872 to 1874. In 1870 John was commissioned to build the Pickens County Court House. He received $1,000. John and Elizabeth are probably buried near Powell, in Marshall county, but no markers remain. (Source: Chickasaw Loves and Allied Families, by Marie King GARLAND.)

Jon Eastman Hardwick, in his article in "Pioneers of Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Volume II" cited only three known children born to John C. Hardwick and Elizabeth Jane Boyd, James, John David and Joe C. Hardwick. He noted that they were believed to be buried near Powell, Marshall County, Oklahoma, but with no stones remaining.

Notes:

Jon Eastman Hardwick writes that Dr. James M. Boyd was believed to have been born in Glasgow, Scotland, and accompanied his parents to the Nachez area when he was about five years of age.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1860 Census
The Choctaw Nation, Indian Lands, Arkansas, P. O. Skullyville
Enumerated 29 October 1860
Page 19
216-216
James M. Boyd 63 M Farmer Mississippi
Mat Ault 30 M Miller Pennsylvania
John Ireby 31 M Wagoner Alabama
Christopher Wagoner 30 M Sawyer in Mill Germany
John C. Hardwick 35 M Carpenter Tennessee
J.W. Beam 31 M Carpenter S. Carolina

James married Nancy Mahota Love before 1826. Nancy was born about 1810 in Vicinity Of Old Pontotoc, Chickasaw County, Mississippi; died on 20 Aug 1869 in Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jon Eastman Hardwick writes that Nancy Mahota Love was the eldest child of Thomas Love and his Chickasaw wife Homahota. The Love family was a prominent Chickasaw Indian family that early acquired an English surname by reason of intermarriage.

Viki Anderson writes that "The Love family was possibly the largest of the mixed-blood families in the Chickasaw Nation and second only to the Colbert family in service to the Chickasaw Nation. Thomas Love was my ggggg grandfather. He was a refugee Tory from Virginia who settled among the Chickasaw in 1782. After his father William Love ("English Bill") had been killed, Thomas said that he took off through a briarpatch and made his lifesaving escape.

He led a quiet existance. He was described in July, 1875 as "a person of high esteem". He assisted in marking the Creek-Chickasaw boundary in 1796. Another countryman, John McIntosh, appointed him administrator of his estate in 1803. He was still living in 1818 and apparently died about 1830.

Thomas had two wives; his first wife, was Sally Colbert, half breed Chickasaw, daughter of James Logan Colbert. His second wife was a full-blood Chickasaw woman named Emahota. Following the Chickasaw tradition of the husband becoming a member of the wife's family, he became a member of the house of In-cun-no-mar. Thomas fathered eight sons and five daughters.

Emahota was born in 1791. She sold land in Marshall County, Mississippi on April 8, 1836. She was listed on the 1840 LaFayette County census. She removed to Indian Territory in November, 1844. The 1847 census lists her as half white, head of household, consisting of one male over 18 and 2 females over 16. She died at Burneyville on September 25, 1873.
Sons: Henry, Isaac, Benjamin, Slone, Robert Howard, Samuel, William, and Thomas
Daughters: Delilah (married a Mitchell, then John B. Moore), Betsy (married James Allen), Sally (married James T. Gaines), Nancy Mahota (married James M. Boyd), and Lucinda (married Samuel A. Colbert)

By the 1820's, most of the Love family were living in a prosperous farming community located about six miles southwest of the present town of Holly Springs, MS. In 1826, a Presbyterian missionary located a station they called Martyn Station near Henry Love's home which stood at the crossing of two Indian trails near Pigeon Roost Creek. Many of the family's children attended school there.

Thomas died in 1830.

Seven of his sons became Chickasaw leaders, particularly during and after the removal to Indian Territory."

http://www.roark-family.org/Loves/TheLoves.asp

Richard Allen Colbert wrote to Viki Anderson that Sally's father, James Logan Colbert "was born in America, on Plumtree Island in North Carolina to be more precise. If you don't believe me, would you believe James Colbert himself. On July 25, 1783, he sent letter to Governor Harrison of Virginia stating that he was "born" in America." I do not have a copy that I can send via computer, but it is located in the "Calendar of Virginia State Papers and other Documents," from January 1, 1782, to Dec. 31, 1784, Vol. III) (Richmond: Sherwin McRae, 1883), pp. 513-515. In addition, when James Colbert spent the summer of 1783 at Long Island on the Holston River with Malcolm McGee and the chiefs of the Chickasaw Nations to discuss peace terms with John Doone and Joseph Martin of Virginia, John Donne wrote a letter to General James Wilkenson, and said: "from his education and mode of life, being bred among the Indians from his infancy ...." QUESTION: How could this happen? ANSWER: His father was a Chickasaw Indian trader and took him to live among the Chickasaws after his real mother died. Father's name was William Colbert. He began trading with the Chickasaws in 1722. Also, in the Draper Collection of Manuscripts, Lyman C. Draper interviewed Malcolm McGee. McGee was asked to describe several of the Indian traders he knew. He described them by their Nationality, i.e., ADAIR-Irish, BUBBY-English, BUCKLES-English, HIGHTOWER-Dutchman, COLBERT-Carolinian. Note: McGee did not say Colbert was a "Scotsman." He said he was a "Carolinian." Also note that McGee was once married to Elizabeth Oxberry Harris, daughter of Christopher Oxberry and Molly Colbert. If anyone should know where James Colbert was born, it would be McGee." - Richard Allen Colbert to Viki Anderson, Jan 6, 2001

On her website, Viki Anderson writes "He (James Logan Colbert) married three Chickasaw wives and had nine children: seven sons and 2 daughters. He lead his life as an Indian trader, interpreter and leader of men during a time in history which was a turbulent struggle for land and new opportunity.

James and his Chickasaw followers harassed, frustrated, and repelled the Kings Enemies, patrolling the river country against invasion. French, Spanish, British, and Americans all courted the Chickasaw who skillfully played one against the other. The Chickasaw had begun to divide politically with one group showing favoritism toward the Spanish and the other lead by James Colbert staying loyal to the British. In 1781, James Logan Colbert lead an attack on Ft. Jefferson, an American military post erected in 1780 by George Rogers Clark on Chickasaw lands without Chickasaw permission. The siege lasted 5 days, but the Americans held the fort. James was wounded three times in the encounter. The Americans abandoned the fort in June of 1781.
After the British lost the American Revolution and the Anglo-Spanish War in Florida, they abandoned their colonization of the Mississippi Valley. The pro-British Chickasaw were not about to embrace the Spanish who claimed the territory between the mouth of the Yazoo River and the Ohio. They instead transferred their allegiance to the Americans. By 1782, according to some reports, there were almost three hundred whites and possibly a hundred blacks living in Chickasaw country, many of them Loyalist refugees from a failed rebellion at Natchez. James Colbert fashioned these men into a band of resistance fighters near Chickasaw Bluffs, assaulting Spanish boats on the Mississippi. A group of 150 Loyalists and 200 Indians attacked Spanish commerce on the river. The raids climaxed in 1782 with the capture of a boat carrying Se?ora Nicanora Ramos, the wife of Governor Cruzat of Saint Louis near present day Memphis. She was well treated and released after 22 days.

James first wife was a full-blood Chickasaw. They had a daughter,?b? ?/b?Sally . His second wife also was full-blood Chickasaw. They had several children: William, George, Levi, Joseph, and Samuel. His third wife was a half-blood Chickasaw. They had two children; James Holmes and Susan. James brought up his half-blood children as Indians. It is ironic that while James spent a good deal of his adult life seeking the Indian ways, his children would raise their children in the white mans culture, sending them to schools to become well educated. They became shrewd businessmen and leaders who exerted tremendous influence in Chickasaw councils well into the nineteenth century. In December, 1783, James died en route home from Pensacola in a fall from his horse. Some people believed that Caesar, the slave that returned home to tell the tale, had killed him."

Viki's sources include:
Adair's History of the American Indians, James Adair, published in London, 1775.
The Chickasaw, Duane K Hale & Arrell M. Gibson ISBN 1-55546-697
The Five Civilized Tribes, Grant Foreman, ISBN 0-8061-0923-8
The American Revolution in Indian Country, Colin G. Calloway, ISBN 0-521-47149-4

http://www.roark-family.org/Colberts/TheColberts.asp