Researching Samuel Mayes
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The name Samuel means "asked of God" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Samuel Mayes on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Samuel Mayes and the Mayes Family Tree
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Mayes Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called Samuel Mayes
Samuel Houston Mayes
Samuel Houston Mayes (May 11, 1845 – December 12, 1927) of Scots/English-Cherokee descent, was elected as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), serving from 1895 to 1899. His maternal grandfather belonged to the Deer clan, and his father was allied with members of the Cherokee Treaty Party in the 1830s, such as the Adair men, Elias Boudinot, and Major Ridge. In the late nineteenth century, his older brother Joel B. Mayes was elected to two terms as Chief of the Cherokee.
Born in Indian Territory, Mayes attended a Cherokee school, served with the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and become a cattle rancher before entering politics. He was elected as the United States was dissolving tribal governments and communal lands, and making allotments in severalty to individual households of Native Americans, in an effort to force assimilation, under the Dawes and Curtis acts.
Source: Samuel Houston Mayes, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaSamuel Mayes
Samuel Houston Mayes (August 11, 1917 – August 24, 1990), was an American cellist.
Mayes was born in St. Louis, Missouri and began studying the cello from the age of four. When he turned 12 he went to Philadelphia where attended Curtis Institute of Music under a direction of Felix Salmond, and later on, joined its Orchestra where he became the principal cellist in 1936. He held that position in 1948 at the Boston Symphony Orchestra till he returned to Philly by 1964. He joined Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1973 abandoning Philadelphia one that way and the two years later became a faculty member at the University of Michigan. He was 79 years of age when he died in Mesa, Arizona.
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