John Woods - Doran's Cove/Russell Cave
Does anyone have any info on this John Woods?I am trying to find info on John Woods who married a Dollie Davis.Should this not be my John, then maybe it would be of help to another.
John Woods: The first recorded person to own Doran's Cove.
When the Cherokee Nation signed the McMinn Treaty of July 8, 1817, they agreed to give up all Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi. In return, they were given land they had chosen in Arkansas. However, any Cherokee person who did not want to journey to Arkansas could remain by becoming a United States citizen. After becoming a citizen, the head of a household would be granted a 640 acre reservation. This land then belonged to the head of the household, but it could not be sold. The land could be passed down through the family, but if the family ever left the reservation, the land would revert back to the United States.
John Woods, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, was one of the natives granted a reservation. His reservation, still listed on TVA topographic maps, included all of Doran's Cove. The stone house John Woods built on his property approximately 100 yards north of the present day Russell Cave park entrance is considered to be the oldest home still inhabited in Jackson County, Alabama.