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Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen: Social Networks of Rejected Applicants

Thomas Mayfield

Thomas Mayfield (Freedmen applicant) was Sallie and Miles Mayfield's son, born in Texas. However, the commission stated that Sallie and Thomas Mayfield had not returned and resided in the Cherokee Nation within the required time frame. Since their names also did not appear on the 1880 roll, Thomas and his family's applications for enrollment were all denied. This included his wife, Ella Mayfield, who had applied as an intermarried Freedman, and his minor children: Millert, Houston, John, Cornelia, Fannie, Hattie, Emmett, Thomas, and Loonard Mayfield.  

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