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Some Choctaw and a very few Natchez remained after the removals of the 1830s. From what information I can find it doesn't appear to be a Choctaw name, and may be a derivative of American French or Creole (Mississippi was New France just like Louisiana). The correlation in form between Markareese and "Mark the trail" is too unlikely unless the meaning is derived from the name, or there is an obscure American French origin (the lack of a suitable word similar to reese or eese in French dictionaries is inconclusive - American French has a different, sparsely documented vocabulary). On the other hand it may have originally been a normal European name like Marguerite. To search the Dawes lists though you'll need a surname, and your grandmother may probably have been born after this census. Almost all will have European names.

This message was edited 4/3/2020, 9:33 AM