Individual Details
Dr. Henry Patillo Clingman
(4 Apr 1813 - 7 Jun 1906)
Henry married, 1836, to Mrs. Emily Meer Magee Nixon, widow of Dr. Samuel Nixon of Shreveport, LA. Henry served with the U.S. Army during the Seminole and Cherokee Wars and was with the expedition that moved the Cherokees to Oklahoma, the Trail of Tears, in 1838. He graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Medicine.
His daughter Ida Clingman Humphrey applied to the Dawes Commission as a Cherokee descendant. This seems most odd given that her father aided in the removal. The Poindexters all were pretty much agreed that none of their family had ever lived as Indians, and had always lived as whites. The claims only arose when money or land was involved.
Events
Birth | 4 Apr 1813 | Huntsville, Yadkin County, North Carolina | |||
Death | 7 Jun 1906 |
Families
Father | Peter Clingman (1780 - 1845) |
Mother | Anne Patillo Poindexter (1787 - 1819) |
Sibling | Dr. Alexander Brandon Clingman (1806 - 1881) |
Sibling | Francis Poindexter "Frank" Clingman (1811 - 1871) |