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I see very little on this site that documents any of the very interesting James Madison Bell Family originally from Georgia until 1838. He was brother to Sarah Caroline Bell Watie. Their story will be chronicled in a soon to be released novel. I am enclosing the timeline of this family which will help some of you sort through the facts of their family.
http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/
HISTORICAL TIMELINE - THE BELL FAMILY OF THE RIDGE PARTY
OF THE DEER CLAN OF THE CHEROKEE NATION
1771 “The Ridge” Full Blood Cherokee born Tennessee
1780 John Bell marries Cherokee woman ‘Hughes’ of the Deer Clan.
1781 John Adair marries Nancy “Gahoga” Lightfoot, Deer Clan.
1782 May, John Bell Jr. born Greenville Dist. South Carolina
1785 Charlotte Adair born Bartow Cty. Georgia
1790 Chief John Ross born Tennessee. 1/8 th Cherokee
1805 Bartow Cty. Georgia - John Bell Jr. marries Charlotte Adair
1806 John Adair “Jack” Bell born, oldest of 12 children, New Echota on the Coo-sa-wa-tee River in community of other Ridge Party Families.
1807 Elizabeth Hughes Bell born, New Echota, married George Candy
1809 David Bell born, New Echota, I.T. married Nancy Martin
1812 Samuel W. Bell born, New Echota, I.T. married Rachel Martin
1814 Creek War, Major Ridge with 800 Cherokee volunteers fight for Andrew Jackson's Army
1814 Nancy “Nannie” Bell born, married George Harlan Starr. Died Sept.1864, Mt Tabor, Tx.
1817 Devereaux Jarrett Bell ‘Chicken Trotter’ born, New Echota. Married Juliette Lewis Vann. Died in 1875 Mt. Tabor, Texas
1820 Mar. 11, Sarah Caroline “Sally” Bell born, New Echota. Married to Stand Watie.
1825 Charlotte Hughes Bell born, married Dr. William Dupree, 1851 in Texas. Died 1912 Okla.
1826 James Madison Bell “Colo-Gotte-Yon” born near New Echota. Spent 4 years at seminary in Ohio with Missionary Dr. Palmer
1828 Martha Jane Bell born married Rev. Walter Adair Duncan. She died in 1857 in Texas.
1828 Cherokee National Newspaper ‘The Cherokee Phoenix’ established, printed in English and Cherokee
1834 Aug. 1, Elias “Cornielius” Boudinot born, New Echota, son of Elias Boudinot, “Buck Watie”
1835 December 29 Treaty of New Echota for Cherokee removal west signed with US government by members of Ridge Party
1838 October, Ridge Party families of Bell, Adair, Lynch, and others removed from their homes, entered at Ft.Cass, Tenn. for holding to await removal to Indian Territory West
1838 Nov.22, Bell Detachment arrives Memphis, TN. Buried 17 in Monroe County
1838 Dec.25, Bell Detachment ferries Point Remove Creek, N.E.of Little Rock
1839 January 7, Bell Detachment arrives at Evansville, Ark. Completed 707 miles in 89 days
1839 June 22, Honey Creek, I.T, Major Ridge, son John Ridge and Elias Boudinot assassinated
1839 Charlotte Adair Bell dies, in Flint Dist, Indian Territory West.
1842 Sept.18 Stand Watie and Sarah Bell married. Live at Beatties Priarie, Benton Cty, Ark.
1848 David Bell assassinated at Honey Creek, by Ross factions in retaliation for brother John Adair Bell signing New Echota Treaty.
1848 Bell and other families leave I.T. to settlement of Mt.Tabor, Tx.
1849 Samuel Bell dies in route to California on Cherokee wagon train
1852 James Madison Bell and Caroline Lynch are married, Rusk County, Tx.
1852 July 12, John Bell Jr. dies at Mt. Tabor, Rusk County, Tx.
1854 Grass Valley, Ca. “The life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta” first novel published in California written by John Rollin Ridge, ‘Yellow Bird’, grandson of Major Ridge
1856 circa, Bell and other families leave Texas, settle in the Webbers Falls area Of Indian Territory
1861 On May 6, Arkansas seceded from the Union.
1861 August, The Cherokee Mounted Rifles formed by members of the Ridge Party and headed by Stand Watie allying with the Confederacy
1864 October 21, William Watie Bell born to James Madison and Caroline ‘Carrie’ Lynch Bell, Webbers Falls, C.N.
1865 June 23, Brig.Gen.Stand Watie and Cherokee Troups cease hostilites in the Civil War at Doaksville near Ft. Towson, I.T.
1866 Caroline Lynch Bell, wife of James Madison Bell dies Webbers Falls, Canadian Dist. C.N.
1871 Sept.9 Stand Watie, age 65 dies at home near Grove on Honey Creek, C.N.
1872 Feb. The Town of Vinita, Ok. platted and headed by Ridge party families
1876 Nov. Ft.Smith, Ar. James Madison Bell arrested, tried for treason against the United States. Acts as his own attorney, aquitted
1879 May, James Madison Bell fails to settle Cherokee Outlet
1882 Feb. 3, Sarah Caroline Bell Watie dies near Bernice, C.N.
1896 August 20, Elias ‘Cornelius’ Boudinot dies Tahlequah, I. T.
1907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th State. The Cherokee Tribe is dissolved, recognized again 1943
1915 March, Col. James Madison Bell dies at Vinita, Oklahoma at age 88
1937 Daisy Bell is a fictitious composite character. Her narrative of life as a Cherokee slave, the Civil War, life after emancipation consists largely of quotes and phrases from a project of the WPA of interviews of Cherokee Freedmen Slaves from Oklahoma and Texas.
1995 U.S. Postal Service issues commemorative stamp showing Stand Watie on horseback after a raid on Union river boat seen burning in background
2007 March Cherokee Tribe voted to no longer recognize descendants of Cherokee freedmen slaves as part of tribal membership
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