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Martin Burleson Maney

Birthdate:1748 (82)

Birthplace:Templeludigen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland, UK

Death:April 15, 1830 (82)

Painted Fork, Yancy, North Carolina, United States

Place of Burial:Barnardsville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States

Immediate Family:

Son of James Maney and Scellos Faye (Shawnee) Maney

Husband of Keziah Maney

Father of

Sarah Maney;

Nancy Sarah Maney;

John Jackson Maney;

James M. Maney, Sr.;

Lucinda Maney and

FOLD 3 Eastern Cherokee Applications:

Jerry Wright Jordan, comp., Cherokee By Blood - Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U. S. Court of Claims 1906 - 1910, Volume 1: Applications 1 to 1550. (Heritage Books, Inc.), pp. 98-99, Claim No. 276, says Martin Maney was an Irishman. (hereafter cited as Jordan, Vol. 1, Cherokee By Blood).

Jordan, Vol. 1, Cherokee By Blood, pp. 98-99, Claim No. 276. Total number of applicants rejected in the Vann - Maney Group was 162.

Pauline West, submitted 15 Nov 1979, "Ahnentafel," A Lot of Bunkum, Vol. 15, No. 2 (May 1994), pp. 40-41.

Elizabeth Arrowood, 1850 US Census, Cherokee Co. NC, P.76A L.27 H&F.991, NA Film Series M-432, Roll 625, National Archives, Washington, DC: Elizabeth Arrowood 15; James Maney 48 Farmer; Barbary 47; William 18 Farmer, John C 16 Farmer col.11, Frances 14f, Rebecca 12, Sarah 10, Silvester 8; everybody b.NC (hereafter cited as 1850 census, P.76A L.27, Cherokee Co. NC).

Lazarus Anderson, 1850 US Census, Cherokee Co. NC, P.75A L.10 H&F.972, NA Film Series M-432, Roll 625, National Archives, Washington, DC: Lazarus Anderson 39 Farmer; Nancy 27; Amanda 10, James 8, Matilda 5, Robert 1; everybody b.NC (hereafter cited as 1850 census, P.75A L.10, Cherokee Co. NC).

David W. Siler, Special Agent, Department of Indian Affairs, The Eastern Cherokees - A Census of the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia in 1851 (compiled in 1851; published, Cottonport, LA: Polyanthos Inc., 1972), p. 108, lists Nancy Anderson and four children with ages, says "Lazarus Anderson is head of this family, his wife a daughter of James Many." Notes they were not on census of 1835.

Says James Many and Lazarus Anderson furnished him with the names.

"As to the blood of the Manys I believe that Agents for the Government of the U States have heretofore recognized them as Cherokees. I have no proof that the Cherokees have recognized them, they have generally resided out of the Cherokee Country."