Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, 03/04/1907  

Creek     

• Alex Blackstone

• Annie Blackstone

From the book:  "Genealogy Of The Riddle Family, 1760 to 1965, 205 Years, (Compiled by Fred W. Plum)"

• Hannah Longstreet Blackstone:  Hannah was born "the night the stars fell" (an astronomical phenomenon). She was the daughter of a large plantation owner near Atlanta, Georgia, whose horse ran away with him that night, as he rode for a doctor to attend his wife. He said that it was as light as day as the stars all shot from the sky. The plantation which he owned was said to be fifteen thousand acres, with 150 to 300 slaves to work it. Hannah had five brothers who lived to be grown. Hannah was 1/4 Creek or Cherokee Indian (probably Cherokee since she was from near Atlanta, Georgia). (I found on the 1850, Gordon County, Georgia census a Hannah born in SC, age 17 with Richard as head of the family. It appears that this same Richard in on the 1860 Titus County, Texas census.) When the war between the states began, Hannah's father was "middle aged", but like Wade Hampton of South Carolina he was rich in worldly goods. So like Wade Hampton he raised and equipped a regiment of cavalry and rode off to war as its colonel to fight the "Dam Yankees" and with him rode his five sons leaving the plantation in the hands of an "overseer" who was to keep on raising cotton, corn and all kinds of food for the "cause". Hannah's father and four of his sons died on the battlefields where they met the Yankees. The other son Luther came home before the war ended with seven bullet holes through his body. Not long after Luther came home from the war, someone with a lot of confederate money offered to buy the plantation. He got in touch with Hannah, they thought the money was good so they sold the plantation for two trunks full of confederate money about $160000 in shinplasters mostly (nearly all of the slaves were gone by then). The money was not worth much then and in a few months was not worth anything. They kept the money for awhile, hoping the South would rise again. Some of it may still be in existence, but they destroyed most of it after Hannah died at 8:00 PM. She was buried at Damascus.