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Mahala Susannah Brock
1749 - 1820 (71 years)
Has 3 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
1743 - 1823 (80 years)-
Name Mahala Susannah Brock Birth 1749 Cumberland County, Virginia 
Gender Female Death 1820 Benge, Clay County, Kentucky Patriarch & Matriarch 
Reuben Brock (Grandfather)
Susannah Caroline Davis, b. 1725, Cherokee, North Carolinad. 1760, Clay County, Kentucky (Age 35 years) (Mother) Person ID I139011 FeldmanTree Last Modified 6 Dec 2012
Father Aaron Brock, b. 08 Dec 1721, Cumberland County, Virginia d. 1820, Clay County, Kentucky (Age 98 years) Mother Susannah Caroline Davis, b. 1725, Cherokee, North Carolina d. 1760, Clay County, Kentucky (Age 35 years) Family ID F34628 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edward Callahan, b. 1743, Virginia d. 1823, Clay County, Kentucky (Age 80 years) Marriage 1767 Virginia Children 1. Isaac Callahan, b. 1794, North Carolina d. 17 May 1817, Clay County, Kentucky (Age 23 years)▻ Mahala Wilson m. 25 Jul 18102. Charlotte Callahan, b. 4 Jul 1778, Harlan County, Kentucky d. 7 May 1864, Clay County, Kentucky (Age 85 years)Family ID F34621 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 6 Dec 2012
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Marriage - 1767 - Virginia 
Death - 1820 - Benge, Clay County, Kentucky = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Mahala Susan Brock from Clay County, considered a child of Red Bird, married Edward Callahan. Their daughter Zelphia Callahan married Roger Cornett. Their son Samuel Cornett married Lucretia Pigg, the daughter of John Pigg and Lucretia Payne (*Wilson 1978). Lucretia Pigg died about 1886 of smallpox when they were living in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Their daughter Savannah Miller (nee Cornett) was living in Texas at the time she applied for enrollment in the Cherokee Nation on September 24, 1908. Her enrollment application states:
I am 59 years old. I claim my Indian blood through my father, Samuel Cornett. My father died in 1870 in the Cherokee Nation. He was 68 years old at the time of his death (Showing family bible pages). Samuel Cornett was born December 27, 1802, in Clay County, Kentucky. He lived in Kentucky until after his marriage, and went to Missouri after the births of three or four of his children. I was born in Missouri, but I was next to the youngest child. I have heard my mother say that my brother William Cornett, who was born May 9, 1833, was born in Missouri, and John Cornett, born November 29, 1835, was also born in Missouri as were the rest of us children. My father got his Indian blood through his mother, Susan Brock. I can tell nothing about Susan Brock other than she lived in Kentucky and she died there. She was said to be a full blood Indian. She never got any money or lands from the Government on account of her Indian blood. My father went to Tahlequah in 1869 to have his Indian rights recognized, but he did not get his claim fully established.
Samuel Cornett went to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, in 1869 to claim his Cherokee blood through his Clay County grandmother, Mahala Susan Brock. Unfortunately, another enrollment document submitted by another family member mistakenly listed Samuel Cornett's grandparents as Andrew and Malinda Lockhart, even though he listed his grandmother correctly as Susan Brock. This discrepancy is the reason he was denied Cherokee enrollment and entitlements. Nonetheless, members of the Brock family remained in the Cherokee Nation and were later fully enrolled through marriage.
*Wilson, Jess 1978. When They Hanged the Fiddler. Possum Trot University Press, Manchester
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brockfamily/ChiefRedBird-byKBTankersley-3.html
- Mahala Susan Brock from Clay County, considered a child of Red Bird, married Edward Callahan. Their daughter Zelphia Callahan married Roger Cornett. Their son Samuel Cornett married Lucretia Pigg, the daughter of John Pigg and Lucretia Payne (*Wilson 1978). Lucretia Pigg died about 1886 of smallpox when they were living in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Their daughter Savannah Miller (nee Cornett) was living in Texas at the time she applied for enrollment in the Cherokee Nation on September 24, 1908. Her enrollment application states:
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Reference Your Name Here. "Mahala Susannah Brock". Our Stories and Family Tree. https://www.feldmanfamily.ws/genroot/getperson.php?personID=I139011&tree=FDF001 (accessed May 8, 2024).
