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Kim
Query: I’m trying to find out the Cherokee Indian lineage from my great grandfather’s side. His name was Herman Joseph GWIN and his father Caleb GWIN. My grandmother told me he was part Cherokee Indian. I was just wondering if anybody had any information regarding the GWIN name being associated with Cherokee.
Posted: January 2012
Sandra Dodd
Query: The DODD name.
Posted: January 2012
Peggy Elaine
Query: Letty DURHAM–Letty was supposed to have been born in the Cherokee nation. She was married to a HOWARD. I saw that she died in Ky. It has been posted that she was Cherokee. Elizabeth B. ALSUP also has been posted as Cherokee. Please post what you know. Also was the HOWARD she was married to also part Native American.
Posted: January 2012
Elle
Query: I’m looking for anyone who knew of Perry JOHNSON and Ada WORTHEY. I’m told they are of Cherokee descent. Perry JOHNSON supposedly had one or two brothers who stayed on the reservation. I’m also told the reservation was in GA. Any help with this, I would appreciate.
Posted: January 2012
Amy Cannon
Query: My great great grandfather was a Cherokee Indian and his name was Moody LAMB. He was married to a woman named Onda and I believe he was married before or after her too. He grew up in Ohio, but I think he was born in 1901 in Indiana. Does anyone have any information on him or his family.
Posted: January 2012
Beverly Neal
Query: Grandmother, Alvira (Elvira) Marion CAIN born 1914 as well as my Great Grandmother, Martha Jane MAYERS passed down information that the CAIN family was Cherokee with decendants from Rain In The Face and that the CAIN name is the americanized name.
CAIN, Elvira Marion
b. 1914 CO
d. 1992 CA
her father:
CAIN, Bert
b. 1892 CO d. 1966 CA
her mother
MAYERS, Martha Jane
m. 1913 CO
d. 1992 CA
her grandfather
CAIN, William Lafeyette
b. 1846 MO d. 1910
STANLEY, Emma Effie b. 1860 d.1915 CO
m. 1880 MO
her g- grandfather
CAIN, KANE, Josiah P.
b. 1818 TN
m. ?
UPTON, Nancy
b. 1821 ?
The MEEKS family is Choctaw with Irish, Pennsilvania dutch married to the Meeks.
(her mothers family):
MAYERS, CAIN, Martha Jane
b. 1898 KA d. 1992 CA
father:
MAYERS, Patrick Charles (Pete)
b. 1874 AR d. 1959
m. 1895 ?
PENDERGRAFF, Clara
b. 1876 AR d. 1906 ?
(father of: Patrick Charles MAYERS)
MAYERS, Thomas John
b. 1842 TN d. 1933
m. ?
MEEKS, Perlina, Perdina Jane
b. 1840
Red River Reserv. TX
d. 1907 Smith, KS
It was also mentioned that due to the treatment by the whites that the family avoided telling others they were Native American decent.
I am among thousands who are seeking answers to their heritage .. and I want to be at peace of who I am and where my family comes from. I am proud of my heritage and the stories my grandmother told. I’d like to continue their search started over 26 years ago to honor them as they have passed on.
Posted: January 2012
Sue Hodge
Query: Looking for information on Andrew SPURLOCK, married on the Choctaw Nation Reservation He married Sarah KISEN. These are my great grandparents and im trying to find out more about them.
Posted: January 2012
Chris Coble
Query: Any knowledge of Eli and Martha COBLE, (1850’s?). Martha’s maiden name was COOK. They had six boys two girls Dave, Hop, Gus, Jim, (Lonnie and Luther/twins) were the boys. Jenny and Lou Ann were the girls. William Leonidus COBLE (Lonnie) was my great grandfather from Tennessee?
Posted: January 2012
Michelle Diaz
Query: Hi I am trying to find some info on my full blooded Cherokee Indian grandmother named Clara BURTON. All I know is that she had a child with a Irish man, and gave birth to daughter named Elizabeth Rachel O’BRIEN in Austin, Texas on September 2nd 1888-1894. If anyone has any iNfo please contact me at: (925) 550-8402 or mdiaz6181@yahoo.com
Posted: January 2012
Brandi
Query: Surname: BOWMAN – I just beginning my Cherokee genealogy search. I have always been told that I have a Cherokee background and I want to find out. My grandfather is supposed to be either full or half Cherokee. Any information known on the BOWMAN name will be greatly appreciated.
Posted: January 2012
Calvin Williams
Query: Jim COOK
Posted: January 2012
Jason Johnson
Query: My mother was Brenda Katherine WHITEHEAD. Grandfather was Earl Granville WHITEHEAD. I know he had a brother Melvin, but I can’t recall my great grandfathers name, or grandmother. I remember my mother talking about Tahana ARROWWOOD, but I can’t recall the relation. My grandpa Earl was born in Knoxville, TN 1918.
Posted: January 2012
Gloria
Query: MARTIN, CUMBY/CUMBIE, HARRIS, from Virginia looking for connections to Cherokee heritage.
Posted: January 2012
Marilyn Guth
Query: My gggrandfather James Peter RAMBO was married to a princess White Feather can you confirm this and what was her real name.
Posted: January 2012
Carlotta Algee-Stancil
Query: I am looking for information on Martha TYUS nee Lake who was a Cherokee and married a slave by the name of Tom TYUS. They lived in the area around Brownsville/Durhamville, TN. They had several children and my great grandmother, I believe, was the youngest. Her name was Lou TYUS she did live with her brother Peter PURHAM at one time.
Posted: January 2012
Jeannie Stone
Query: I am trying to find information about Phillip WILLIAMS marring an indian girl mamed Annie it the watauge settlement in Tenessee in the 1700’s he had a land grant 15.75 dated 1791 fayatte water course ky. river he was my grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather any help would be aprecated.
Posted: January 2012
Deborah Bailey
Query: Looking for information on Jimmy WALKER, wife Nettie Smith WALKER. Died in late 1800s in Muscadine Alabama.
Posted: January 2012
Charlene N Gray
Query: Minerva Jane HUNTER SKAGGS (married name was SKAGGS) born in Texas.
Posted: January 2012
Charlotte Stout
Query: My name is Charlotte STOUT, and I was born 7/25/66. I am interested in trying to nail down some of my heritage … my father was ‘officially’ listed as 25% Cherokee, with HIS mother (my grandmother) was ‘officially’ listed as 1/2 Cherokee, with HER father (my great-grandfather) as ‘black Dutch’ (which is also Cherokee, if I’m not mistaken) and HER mother (my great-grandmother) being full-blooded (with a race # if I’m not mistaken, but Charles’s stepsister has those records, and is not allowing Charles’s children – including myself – to receive the originals or copies of said document).
There is the issue of my father’s father being ‘unknown’, which wasn’t the case, as it was a secret which my grandmother took to her grave – the rumor is that she was assaulted by one of her maternal uncles (also full-blooded), and, well, it just becomes a big ol mess … let’s just say that I am being led to believe that (should the rumor be true) I stand to be anywhere from 37% (if Savannah was only 1/2 Cherokee) to 50% Cherokee (if Savannah was full-blooded), though only DNA testing would confirm this, and the official Cherokee nation does not recognize DNA testing as ‘proof of heritage’. Anyhow, here are the names I know:
Father: Charles Edward STOUT (born 7/30-something), in OK
His mother/my grandmother: Savannah STOUT, also born in OK
I do think that Savannah’s father was ‘Sam STOUT‘, but I’m not sure. As I’d mentioned earlier, I do believe he listed himself as ‘Black Dutch’.
Both Savannah and Charles died when they were 56 years of age (let’s hope I beat that curse!)
Posted: January 2012
Marlene Morrow
Query: Looking for anyone with information about the slaves owned by Joshua ROACH in Indian territory.
Posted: January 2012
Ronda Jackson
Query: My mom whom has past away, said her great great great grandfather walked the Trail of Tears. I’m trying to find my past. See I make jewelry, Dreamcatchers, an so forth, an my grandchildren are SCIT SAGINAW CHIPPEWA INDIAN TRIBE. I’m Cherokee an a branch of the Chippewa. Can you help me? I know he was in Kentucky and forced to walk the Trail.
Posted: January 2012
Jenny Graham
Query: I was told that one of my ancestors, a woman named Nancy who married Peter GRAYHAM, might have been Cherokee. I don’t know her maiden name. She married Peter GRAYHAM in 1778 in KY, most likely in Green County. She and her husband and children moved to NC, then to northwest AR. She died in either AR or MO between 1840 and 1850.
Posted: January 2012
David L. Rogers
Query: My grandfather William A. BURNS, appears in the Guion-Miller Roll and is listed in Missouri. Not living on the reservation, the family was listed as ineligible. Does anyone know who his ancestors were who appears on the Dawes Roll? His mother was Mary Larkins.
Posted: January 2012
Tom
Query: I’m looking for any information on Wilson Buchanan CARTER (born 1828) and his wife Mary Jane (BLANKENSHIP). His father may have been Charles. His mother is said to have been a Cherokee and may have had the last name WILSON. Their first child, Nancy Jane, was born in 1853 at Pounding Mill Branch, Tazewell County, VA. The others were born in KY. They moved from Tazewell County, VA to Kentucky between 1853 and 1856.
Posted: January 2012
Ellen Hirschy
Query: I am of Cherokee descent a trying to find the parents for Anna LEE, b ca 1797 in NC. I do not have the county but at one time, the location of Boonesborough, KY was mentioned by an Aunt of mine. Anna LEE was the great great grandmother of mine. She married John STEWART in Clinton Co. OH in early 1800’s and I have all of the families from there-on. Thank you for any help that I will be happy to pay for. I am 84 yr. and would love to find this info soon.
Posted: January 2012
Charlena Alvarado
Query: Searching for any info for Dorcus Tabitha BRAGG GOLDEN, aka Dorcus Tatitha BRAGG…decendant of SEQOUIA…family related to GRAHAM, and STARR.
Posted: January 2012
D. Tandy
Query: Any information on Asbury SWEARINGIN‘s family. He was born on May 28, 1919; and died in 1984. His father was named Tom SWEARINGIN, and appears on the 1930 census. He was of mixed Cherokee and German descent. I can’t find any older information than that.
Posted: January 2012
Vicki Appleby
Query: Elvira Jane MCNEW
Posted: January 2012
Vicki Appleby
Query: Mary SAIN
son was Roy SAIN
Mary ADAMS
Posted: January 2012
Rudy Anderson
Query: Trying to find information on Chief OPENGATE. He would likely have been born around 1760 or so, since I have a birth year, 1815, of his granddaughter Celia ESTEP, born in Boone County, West Virginia. OPENGATE‘s daughter, Sabra, married Cornelius ESTEP, most likely also in West Virginia.
Posted: January 2012
Susan Gutrugianios
Query: My great grandmother was Laura Bell LAMB, she married Harrison VAUGHN. They had a daughter (my grandmother) Minnie S. VAUGHN born April 4, 1894 Laura Bell LAMB was a Cherokee I am searching her tribal connection.
Posted: January 2012
Don Drake
Query: My ancestor, Sarah BROWN (~1825 to after 1900) who Samuel DRAKE (~1825 to 1862) listed her birthplace on the 1850 Cherokee Co., AL census as CHEROKEE NATION. Does this mean she was of Cherokee ancestry or simply born within the confines of Cherokee lands?
Posted: January 2012
Justin
Query: I’ve recently found out that my GGgrandfather was over 50% Cherokee and his wife was nearly 100% Choctaw. All I know is he stole her from her tribe and they lived in OK on the reservation for a bit then moved to texas. My GGgrandfathers original lastname is OPOC(K) then he changed it to bryant when he moved to texas. Any aditional info would help.
Posted: January 2012
Susan Crane
Query: My great…great grandmother was an Indian maiden. She was born approx 1760-1770. The name I have found for her is SEALAH and she married my great…great grandfather, Thomas HAMMAN or HAMMON or HAMMONDS. They then moved to Fluvania Co, Va. She gave birth to a son, Micajah born 1789 in what was later known as Hawkins Co, Tenn after Tenn became a state.
Posted: January 2012
Wanda Hoffman
Query: I’ve been told that I have Cherokee, on both sides of my family. HENDERSON, GARNER/CROWSON/BLACK
Posted: January 2012
Elizabeth
Query: I have been told my my dads family that I’m 1/16ths Cherokee and I’ve seen pictures of a Cherokee woman with a white man his last name was UPCHURCH but I don’t know her last name. how can I find out?
Posted: January 2012
Allison Sikes
Query: I was trying to track my gg grandmother Martha SNOW she married my gg grandfather John Micheal SIKES and had a bunch of children I want to say 12. I need more information on her and the Cherokee blood line. I found her on the final rolls index, it says she is part of the Creeks by blood tribe but don’t know anything else about her. Would love to find out more about her.
Posted: January 2012
Pamela Reilly
Query: My maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Lucy BAREFOOT. She said she was part Cherokee (1/4). Her father was John BAREFOOT who married her mother Mary WALLS. I believe my Cherokee heritage comes through the BAREFOOT family. They lived in GA and then later moved to AL. Would appreciate any help on this.
Posted: January 2012
Laurie
Query: I am told I have Cherokee from my grandmothers side Dora Belle MARTIN born in Cedartown, Ga. All I know is that she married Charlie Lee BEARD from Alabama and they moved to Kiowa, Ok.
Posted: January 2012
John Watson
Query: I have heard through my family that my ggranfather Thomas Calvin WINGO, Jr. born 1864 in Heard County, TX, was of Cherokee lineage. Can you direct me to any resources that could confirm, or deny this, please.
Posted: January 2012
Brenda Roberts
Query: Whitehead Cherokee Indian Tribe from Tennessee. Luther and Julie ROBERTS were my Grandparents. My Grandfather was full blood Cherokee. My Great Grandfather was an Indian Chief in this Tribe. My Grandparents moved to Ohio where they passed away in 2005 and I believe 2008 (unccertain of that last year) will have to find papers/ I am looking for anyone related or knows about this line.
Posted: January 2012
Deborah
Query: Looking for information on any BROWN/JUNIOR from Muscadine, AL. All I know is there is supposed to be Cherokee ancestors on this side of family. Jewel BROWN married Herchel JUNIOR, two sons Orville and Jimmie. Her father was Herman H. BROWN or Henry H. Brown.
Posted: January 2012
Joyce Harris
Query: I am looking for info on my great grandmother named Adeline. She was full-blooded Cherokee. She had a child by Will HEGWOOD from Ohio named Lawrence HEGWOOD. She died around 1930 in South Carolina.
Posted: January 2012
Dale Swanger
Query: My great great greatmother was Sarah M. TATE. I have found her Dawes roll # and her card number. I have been unable to find any relatives that can tell me anything to help me to prove this. Any help would be appreciated.
Posted: January 2012
Kurt Lofland
Query: My grandfather’s last name was LOVE on my mother’s side. Also have family with the last name CROSS. Mom insisted we had Cherokee relatives, but have been unable to locate any.
Posted: January 2012
Meschelle Linjean
Query: What is the name of the book (and where can I get it) that has letters (to the Dawes Commission, maybe?) written by Cherokees describing their family members? I read a letter written by my great-great grandmother one time; it mentioned that another family had fought with a particular general in the Civil War. Does anyone know which book I’m talking about?
Posted: January 2012
Juit
Query: Looking for info on James DAVIS aka COOWUSALISKEE. COOWUSALISKEE signed the Treaty of Tellico Oct.25, 1805.
Posted: January 2012
Michael Franks
Query: My Great Great Grandfather Miles E. WHITECOTTON had a son, James WHITECOTTON who married Dora Martha CAIN-WHITECOTTON who most definitely WAS of Cherokee decent. What I am looking for is any info on Dora Martha CAIN-WHITECOTTON‘s parents and/or grandparents and whether or not any of the are on the “Dawes Roll” a list Cherokee and other Native American tribes.
Posted: January 2012
W. Todd Messer
Query: I am looking for Native american link Sarha or Sara FITZPATRICK It was said she died on the trail west. She was the mother of my great grandfather Jessie “Bud” MESSER Tn. area.
Posted: January 2012
MalloryMel Rainstorm
Query: I’m searching for my NC Cherokee grandfather William Hardine SMITH (his sister) Ruby SMITH. Were there more siblings? Hardy (William Hardine SMITH) First marriage: Latisha Maude RAYNOR (now 85), had two sons Edward ? SMITH & William Gene SMITH. Hardy’s second family produced son William “Sanders” SMITH. I am the child of William Gene SMITH who was on tour in Viet Nam in 1968. When I was born and adopted without his knowledge or consent. I am trying to establish my true identity. Thanks for any help.
Posted: January 2012
Carolyn Hodges
Query: I’m looking for info about NANCY NA-NI CHEROKEE who married WILLIAM LOGGINS (LOGGAINS) (LOGEN) around 1770 in North Carolina. NANCY was born about 1740 in Virginia and died 1824 in Montgomery County, TN. She was the daughter of RED PAINT (WURTEH) CHEROKEE and GREY OR GREAT EAGLE (WILENAWA) CHEROKEE. I’m trying to establish if the above information is accurate.
Posted: January 2012
Jonna Guthrie Perkins
Query: I am searching the CHOATE line. Can anyone help with this? We are trying to fill in the gaps of the family.
Posted: January 2012
Zachary
Query: Ada WILSON
Posted: January 2012
Terrell Thompson
Query: My Great great grandmother was Cherokee. I’m not sure if full blood, but I have seen her picture and she has strong Native American features. Her name was Lillie Mae ALSTON. She married and her last name was MARTIN. Her husbands name was Thomas MARTIN. She is from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina born in the 1800’s, and by looking at the birth year of one of her daughters Lillie ALSTON‘s birth years was close to the 1870’s. She had a daughter named Donnie Mae BELL who passed recently in Newport News, Virginia. But Lillie ALSTON, died at the age of 94, in Baltimore, Maryland. Now I her great great grandson lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and so does her granddaughter Lillie Mae THOMPSON (before she married her last name was BELL also). Now we have relatives in Baltimore, Newport News and Somewhere in North Carolina. Most of my relatives who are also descendants of Lillie Mae ALSTON mostly are In North Carolina and Newport News.
Posted: January 2012
