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John Porter
Query: Do you have any records of my grandparents: John Alexander Rush, born 02/15/1893 in Missouri, and Eva Ann Ritter, born 05/16/1893 in Oklahoma.
Posted: October 1999
Karen Gillette
Query: I am interested in tracing my tribal links. My great grandparent were from east Tennessee-Western N.Carolina area. Family stories are that they were both Cherokee. Their names were Frank Billingslea or Billingsley and Elizabeth Blount.
Posted: October 1999
Lorrie Marsh
Query: Looking for any info on Campbell families in eastern Tenn espec Claiborne and Sevier counties Tenn. My ancestor David Campbell was born there 1801-02 family legend indicates he was at least part Cherokee.
Posted: October 1999
Debbie Zengel
Query: I’m looking for information on my great-grandmother Sara Sartain.
Posted: October 1999
Sister Ahdahmeeah Ali Bey
Query: Geneology research: Jane Berry or Hoxter, died in Delaware Township now Cherry Hill, NJ. Lydia Gardner from Carlisle, Pa. also died in same area, early 1900’s for both great grandmothers. Any help or info would be appreciated.
Posted: October 1999
Jackie Saucier
Query: My great grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Temple, she married a Johnson, a preacher and they lived in Mississippi. She was an Native American of some kind but can not be found in the Choctaw archives. I have surmised that she might be another tribe but do not know how to find anything. Please advise.
Posted: October 1999
Randy Mosteller
Query: Looking for the mother of Pariscity Brawner, whose mother was Cherokee, according to my father. Pariscity married Horace Omar Mosteller Oct 13, 1888. Pariscity’s father was a doctor.
Posted: October 1999
Cuartor Wynne
Query: I am searching for the ancestral infomation of my grandmother, Sinie Terrell Fauntleroy, nee Sinie terrell in the Charlotte, Virginia area, on July 20, 1889. Her father, John Terrell was Cherokee, her mother is unknown.
Posted: October 1999
Maria Starkey
Query: Looking for surnames: Walker, Crockett, Raines, Freeman, Sharp and Starkey.
Posted: October 1999
Michael Lucas
Query: My great-great-great-great grandmother was Orpha Holloway (~1750-90).
Posted: October 1999
Johnnie J. Sixkiller
Query: Looking for anyone connected to the Sixkiller family from Adair Co., Okla. (Goingsnake Dist. I.T.) near the towns of Ballard, Watts, or Westville, Okla.
Posted: October 1999
Karen Back
Query: I’m searching for my Cherokee family the names are Woodall, Moore and Perdue.
Posted: October 1999
Joan Wilde
Query: Trying to track down Cherokee great-great-grandma roots. Want to see if on lists. Help!
Posted: October 1999
Tanya Smith
Query: I am trying to research my Cherokee heritage. I am a decendent of Elizabeth Patterson. She would be my great great grandmother and her mother was full blooded Cherokee believed to be the daughter of the chief. I need to know the name of Elizabeth Patterson’s mother to prove my heritage. I really want to prove my heritage for me and my son and I need help to do it. This is a wonderful web sight. I feel that this sight has brought me closer than I have ever been to finding what I need to know.
Posted: October 1999
Marsha Davis
Query: I am looking for info or role numbers on my grandmothers, Nancy Sumpford Collum (great great grandmother) Mary Margret Collum Miller (great grandmother) Mary Jane Humphrees Miller (great great grandmother) born 1857, Edna (Miller) Taylor (grandmother) born 1905, Neoma (Taylor) Davis (mother) born 8-9-1944.
Posted: October 1999
William D Garner
Query: I have been trying for years to find out some information. My real father wont talk to me anymore. Thank you, Dave
Posted: October 1999
Terry Olds
Query: We are seeking in on Knewt Cass Olds (born 1850) believed to be 1/2 Cherokee from the Indiana area. He was married in 1870 to Mary Katheryn Mills who taught at an Indian Reservation. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Posted: October 1999
Benita Black
Query: My Great-great-grandmother was full blood Cherokee. Her Indian name was Talitha Irons, born on January 15, 1840. Her parents were born in Georgia. She married John J. Rodgers (Rogers) in January 20, 1861. They had 11 children that lived and one that died in May 1880. She was also known by Eliza Eveline Irons Rodgers. When John died she gave the children to the Masonic Homes possibly in Lawrence County or Randolph County Arkansas. She died and was buried in Webb City, MO. My great-grandfather, George Elias Rogers was sent a letter stating he could claim land on the reservation in Talequah, Oklahoma between 1909 and 1912 but did nothing about it because he was angry with Talitha for giving them up. Anyone with information concerning this please contact me.
Posted: October 1999
T Spargur
Query: All in TX or OK I think. Sandra Lynn Winters. Lanora Mae or Nora Mae Winters, Sprinkle, Barnes or Puckett. Also Jerrell Wayne Puckett.
Posted: October 1999
Kristine Drury
Query: Fearn
Posted: October 1999
S Murrell
Query: I am looking for info on Elizabeth or Martha Pack.
Posted: October 1999
Melissa Walker
Query: Looking for info on (Washington & Augusta Co., VA) Hannah Berry, Susan Wood, the Cunninghams.
Posted: October 1999
Allen Reed
Query: I am searching for Comeleda Barnes, a full blooded proud Cherokee. If any one knows Comeleda or her aunt Jessie and or her nephew Brian please contact me.
Posted: October 1999
Larry Sizemore
Query: Has anyone any info regarding Sizemore’s from Asheville NC being linked to Cherokee tribes.
Posted: October 1999
Debbie Chenoweth
Query: Looking for this person for genology purposes.
Posted: October 1999
Elaine
Query: Have been looking for many years to find my Cherokee ancestry, my great-grandmother’s mother and father, any siblings, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Posted: October 1999
Bernie Moore-Knowles
Query: Researching Siner/Sinor, Smith, Denton, Lacy, Lamb, Tincup, Krigbaum, Blankinship/Blankenship, Smothers, Brown, Moore, Eason, Wooldridge, Gist, Ozburn, Roberts, Orvis, Crownover and Langston.
Posted: October 1999
Liz Preston
Query: Looking for Cherokee connection through grandfather, surname Moser. He grew up in Oklahoma, but not sure how far back Cherokee heritage or where.
Posted: October 1999
Choqua1
Query: Am looking for any info on great great grandmother Cheney Balinger married George Kilgore II.
Posted: October 1999
Marie Lightsey Tigges
Query: Slemary, female Cherokee or Choctaw born & died in 1800’s. Married James Cook and are buried in Mississippi.
Posted: October 1999
John Edwards
Query: I trying to find my ancestry. My mother’s name is Nancy Ellen Hinds and her father was either part or full Cherokee.
Posted: October 1999
Dana Hill
Query: Searching for family history under the Walker surname or the Rising Star Reservation.
Posted: October 1999
Shawna Franklin
Query: I am looking for my grandfathers roll number his name is William Henry Franklin.
Posted: October 1999
Jay Alan Clark
Query: Seeking info on Nimrod Jarrett Smith or Tsaladehi.
Posted: October 1999
Barbara Ann Straw
Query: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to become a part of this heritage. I enjoyed reading the queries, and noted one about people in Nowata, Nowata County, Oklahoma, my hometown.
Posted: October 1999
Larry Schroader
Query: I’m looking for information about Half Face Camp NC. My great grandmother Marian/Molly lived there and married Littleberry Carman about 1870-1873. Any information about them or about Half Face location, country or district.
Posted: October 1999
C. Stonecloud
Query: Ever heard of the Huston, or James (as in Jesse) families? I’m desperately trying to track my lineage.
Posted: October 1999
Sonja Graham
Query: Looking for ancestors of great great grandmother Rosetta Morningstar who lived in West Virginia.
Posted: October 1999
Dawn “Morningstar” McNabb
Query: I truly liked finding this site and should you care to visit mine they are in the aol hometown N.Am. under Whitewolf’s Morningstar’s and Nacomah’s pages. Also am searching such names as Trent and Rose if anyone else is.
Posted: October 1999
Kristen Cantrell
Query: My grandmother was a Cherokee Native American. I am trying to trace my roots and register with my tribe. Can you please help direct me as to where I should start and what the necessary steps are?
Posted: October 1999
William Douglas Holland
Query: I would like to find my history in the Cherokee Nation. My mother’s maiden name is Owen, my father’s Holland. It’s very important to me.
Posted: October 1999
Adam Scott Barker
Query: I have been told by my elders on both sides of my family that there has been Cherokee blood in the family. I have a old old picture of a great great Cherokee grandfather on my mothers side. But on my fathers side I’m not to sure about, because my grandfather said something once and never said anything again on the subject and then passed away. The names on my mothers side is Helmick I don’t know my grandmothers maiden name. On my fathers side there are three I know of the Barker’s, Marshall’s, Scott’s. Any help you can give me would be helpful.
Posted: October 1999
Randolph L. Finney
Query: I was hoping to find out my Native American geneaology. All that I know is that my great grandmother was half Cherokee indian and her name was Lela Rose Manley.
Posted: October 1999
Glenn Lloyd
Query: I looking for my roots I am half Cherokee Dutch/Welsh. West Virginia is the place to start looking my grandparents were full Cherokee.
Posted: October 1999
Harley William Neal, Jr.
Query: Searching for my Tsa-La-Gi ancestors, my mother’s side of the family. Her maiden name Fleda Moree Vaughan, born Golconda, Illinois.
Posted: October 1999
Lasca Woods
Query: I am trying to gain a role number in the Cherokee Nation it has been my life long dream to do so. So please do me a favor and tell me how to if I can do.
Posted: October 1999
Deane Foster Schulze III
Query: I’m interested in finding any information on my great great great grandmother Susan Phillips. She was born in 1834 in either Georgia or Mississippi and was adopted with her brother John by the Covington family of Mississippi. Neither Susan or her brother John took the name of their adopted family. I’m aware that a man named Elijah Phillips of Hightower, Georgia who can be found in the Cherokee Emigration Roll of 1817-1835 emigrated to lands west of Mississippi. His family was composed of a wife and two children when living in Georgia. I have no proof of that Elijah is the Father of John and Susan but would love to hear any information that any might have on the subject.
Posted: October 1999
Tim Taggart
Query: Looking for relatives of William James Keyes born 7/31/40. Mother was Golden Elwanda Keyes–maby Irene Keyes. Mother was 1/4 Cherokee acording to adoption papers. Should also have brother and sister–maby 1/2 in Ft. Smith Ark area in 1940’s any help appreciated.
Posted: October 1999
Melody Cash
Query: My great great grandmother was a Cherokee Indian. She lived near Church Hill Tenn in the early 1900’s. Her name was Rosie Belle Barnett. Is there anyway that I can find out more about her and our family?
Posted: October 1999
Suzi Bollinger
Query: Looking for information on Amasa who married Thomas Chandler between 1782-1816 in North Carolina or Virginia. Family history says she was an Indian princess but we have no other information. Any information would be of great value.
Posted: October 1999
Shane Janutolo
Query: Looking for information on William Okey Brooks. He migrated from North Carolina to West Virginia.
Posted: October 1999
Victor L. Woods
Query: Looking for Cherokee roots. Grandfather was Clide B. Woods, grandmother was Juanita (Shinn)Woods, both descending from Cherokee roots. They resided in Russellville, Arkansas.
Posted: October 1999
Wanda M. Nelsen
Query: I am searching for Cherokee ancestor Narcissa Collens who wed Milton McClellan in 1825 in Cabarrus NC. I need her time and place of death. Last info was McDowell Co. NC.
Posted: October 1999
Wilfred Wagner
Query: My great grandparents: Martin Van Buren Davis b. 15 June 1836 Boone Co., Ind. (parents unknown) married Emily Frances Jones b. 4 Apr. 1847 Pendleton, Madison Co., Ind. d/o Wm. Henry Jones and Susan Makepease/Dunn. Either Martin or his wife Emily were supposed to be 1/2 Cherokee.
Posted: October 1999
Candice S. Livas
Query: My great grandmother married Jim Jones. They had Marry, Ben and Henery. My great grandmother is suppose to have a tribal number. She was on the reservation when my great grandfather married her. My grandfather Ben Jones married Minnie Mize they had Ernist, Ben Jr. and Hester. My father Ernest Jones married Geraldine Howell they had Teresa, Candice and Michel.
Posted: October 1999
Barbara Snyder
Query: Am looking for any information on Jackson J Wilkins. He was born 1847-1850 Ok or Ark. His mother was Indian, have always been told she was cherokee. Any help possible?
Posted: October 1999
Kathy Gibler
Query: I am trying to trace my g grandfather, Abraham Bledsoe or it could be Bledsaw. I do not have his birthdate at this time, he died Jan,25, 1939. I am also looking for my granfather Willaim Robert Lee Linn could have been spelled Lynn. He was born April 5, 1894 and died August 14, 1926. On my fathers side, I am researching my grandfather. His name was Joseph Padula. He lived in New Jersey. After marriage he migrated to San Pedro California. I do not have his birth, he died 4/8/53/. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
Posted: October 1999
Teri McIntyre Cooper
Query: Recently discovered father was part Cherokee. My grandmother’s name was Virgil Burton. Grandfather was Vernon McIntyre. Grandfather born in North Carolina. Grandmother recalls walking to Oklahoma as a young girl. Trying to piece it together.
Posted: October 1999
Karen Barberee
Query: Seeking info on Jours family around Whiteriver, La outside Shreveport,La.
Posted: October 1999
Willie Wagner
Query: Trying to find my Native American heritage. Enjoyed seeing your on line service.
Posted: October 1999
Mary Lou Garland
Query: I have been notified that on Oct. 01 Thomas Wiseman answered my query to the Cherokee Genealogical Query Forum made on Sept 29. I have not been able to find his answer. Can you help me?
Posted: October 1999
Sue Starr
Query: I am looking for ancestors of gr-grandma Delitha Higgins. She was f/blood Indian. Was born in 1871 in TN. I have been unable to trace her mother, father or any connections to any other Higgins. It is said that she was adopted by a Rev. Higgins when she was age 6. I don’t know if that is true as I know that white names were given to Indians.
Posted: October 1999
Gwen Richardson
Query: I am a Cherokee Roll member, please e-mail me back.
Posted: October 1999
Bette Moore
Query: I am looking for my gr, gr, gr grandfather and grandmother Starling Bowers and Sarah Farmer Bowers from Wilkes Co. Starling born 6/30/1800- Don’t know birthdate on Sarah.
Posted: October 1999
Steve Hayes
Query: Looking for Betesy Meadows, late 18th, early 19th century in either GA or NC.
Posted: October 1999
Diana Holland Buckland
Query: Looking for Yates in Northern Arkansas in mid 1800’s. Supposed to be Cherokee. Hope to find a link here.
Posted: October 1999
Michael Radford
Query: I am attempting to find out how to be registered as a Cherokee. I know that the rolls are closed in North Carolina. Any chances somewhere else?
Posted: October 1999
Kathy Cleveringa
Query: Searching for info on two great great grandmothers. Rhoda Marie? Root: Died Medford or Rouge River, OR. Married to Ed Lenderman. Maryan Coon: Born 06/24/1837 or 33. Died 04/02/1910 or 09/07/1909 @ Higbee,MO. Married 08/09/1860 to George W. Orton.
Posted: October 1999
Donald A. Moss
Query: I am seeking to find my Cherokee heritage through my paternal grandfather’s family in Oklahoma. My grandfather: Robert Benjamin Boyd (DOB 3/17/1896). My great-grandfather: Marcus Lafayette Boyd.
Posted: October 1999
Glenn Lee Horlacher
Query: looking for info on my Cherokee ancestor, Rachel Love, supposedly born in the 1700’s.
Posted: October 1999
Patty Bright
Query: Looking for Fivekiller family from Oklahoma.
Posted: October 1999
Malcolm Light
Query: Am searching for info. on Martha Jane Smith, b. July 10, 1844, Franklin Co., GA. I am told she was Cherokee. She was mar. in Franklin Co., GA., Nov. 16, 1865 to William Sanford Heaton, b. March 29, 1844, Anderson, SC.
Posted: October 1999
Lee Goldman
Query: Dail Nathar 1840
Posted: October 1999
Terry
Query: Cruz, Joseph – Lecia has a father who lived in New York, New York around 1970-1972, and mother’s name was Alice Phillips at the time. Before Lecia’s birth, her mother moved back to Arizona. Lecia was born on February 06, 1972 in Keams Canyon, Arizona. Joseph Cruz is of Cherokee tribe and Alice Phillips is of Navajo tribe. After her birth, her father tried to have legal custody of her, but was favored to her mother. Lecia is looking for her father.
Posted: October 1999
W. K. Gorman
Query: Gorman: Family oral tradition of Cherokee ancestry. Any help welcome.
Posted: October 1999
Brenda Gondron
Query: Mary Jenkins, Anna Lyon
Posted: October 1999
Bill Fenimore
Query: Terry, Estep: Annie Terry was supposedly a niece of John Ross. She was born about 1795 (I think in Tennessee) and is reported to have married a Cornelius Estep about 1810-15. I am looking for Annie’s husband’s name or her siblings. I will appreciate any leads.
Posted: October 1999
Michael
Query: I am looking for the origin of the name Swathwood/Swarthwood/Swartwood. I am tracing family roots, and I was told that Swathwood is a variation of a Cherokee name that someone couldn’t spell. As a result, Swathwood is the name I carry, but I wonder if it has Cherokee origins.
Posted: October 1999
Mike Martin
Query: I’m looking for relation in North Carolina. I was adopted at birth and know nothing of my family but the last name Bushyhead. I wasnt told of my adoption until 1992.
Posted: October 1999
Brenda Pingle
Query: My sisters and I have researched and found that our great grandfather Louis Henry Johnson was full blood Cherokee. The name Free Man is listed as a tribal name. I don’t know where my sister got this information. What is the meaning of the tribal name?
Posted: October 1999
R.K. Allred
Query: Margaret Hays was born in Tenn. about 1823. She married Daniel Robberson (may be an adoptive name) also born in Tenn. Daughter: Margaret Alabama Robberson, our grandmother, born 1853. Need more information about Margaret Hays.
Posted: October 1999
Heather Shutes
Query: Eliza Campbell was born between 1810 and 1830. I am looking for any information relating to her.
Posted: October 1999
Annette LaPorta
Query: Nettie Williams: Married to John Hadley Somers, Sons: Roy Somers, Guy Somers. Sisters: Madaline, Dorothy. possibly others Jen. and a half sister of children named Lucy last name not known. Roy was born in Lowell Ma. can not find info on Nettie.
Posted: October 1999
Karen Walker
Query: William Croy was born in GA, born before 1894. His daughter, Dixie Bell Croy was born in Chatsworth, GA, Jan 24, 1904. William’s wife was Mimmie Smith, born in GA before 1894. Dixie Bell Croy (Jarrett) died May 10, 1945. Looking for any genealogy, ancestors, siblings, decedents, and Cherokee heritage & rights.
Posted: October 1999
Linda Kincheloe
Query: Humphrey: I am looking for any info on David Humphrey, born Georgia, married ? Gardner. Had a daughter Sabra Elvenia Humphrey, born 13 Feb. 1882 in Arkansas. I am told she is fullblood Cherokee. Sabra married James Kinyard Striplin. I appreciate any info.
Posted: October 1999
Della Porter Edmonds
Query: George Albert Porter: Born in Viriginia, died on July 1988. He married Etta Irene Walker, who died also on June 1993. I was told that my families background was Cherokee. I am trying to do a family tree also, so I thought I would start here. Surnames: Porter, Walker, Johnson.
Posted: October 1999
Kevin Halverson
Query: Berry
Posted: October 1999
Dot Williams
Query: Bear Sitting Down: I would like any information on this Bear Sitting Down.
Posted: October 1999
Edith Woodard
Query: Martha Abernathy was born in Kentucky in 1823, her mother being full blood Cherokee, the daughter of a full Cherokee Chief. I am searching for her parents & siblings. Martha married Jesse Blackson Byrd & lived in Stone County, Missouri. They had 6 children, 4 lived. Would greatly appreciate any information. Martha died Sep 1860 in Stone County, Missouri.
Posted: October 1999
Debbie Owens
Query: William Head was born in Tennesee (Smokey Mountain Area). He would of been born sometime between 1890 and 1900. He had a girl (my grandmother) named Captoya Head, her birthdate is 2/2/20. I am researching my Indian Heritage.
Posted: October 1999
Eileen Elliott
Query: Williams Netti born early 1900’s on a ship in NY Father was a travleing sales man. I do not know of any of her family ecept she is the Mother of my Grandfather Roy Somers, She had other children I know of son Guy and daughter Lucy. She was married to John Hadley Somers, who is berried in Tewksbury, Ma. We know she was of Cherokee decent. Please help if you can, because no family records were kept because of this intermariage.
Posted: October 1999
Juanita Custodio
Query: Sprinkle: My husband hs been told he is 1/4 Cherokee on both sides of his family, Eastern Band, prob N.C. Does anyone have info on Cherokee Sprinkle’s? Loomis: I found a Cora Loomis born in MO. in 1880 and raised in Okla. Indian Terr. She had a sister named America She married a George Jones and had 9 children. Am trying to trace her father to the Loomis;s in New York.
Posted: October 1999
Mary Edwards
Query: Chavers
Posted: October 1999
David Hoff
Query: Leatherface, Leathers, Herlet, Melton, Bullard, Wooten, Borders, Barns, Bruce (La Bruce), Angelo, Cox: Tracing Leathers, West {Westwind Leatherface) son Alfred Leathers, Melton, Bullard, Herlet (wife of Alfred); sons of Alfred; James, Nathan, John Baptist, Thomas Marion, Ella, Elmer Lewis; settled in Wayne County, Ill. West was supposedly a Cherokee chief barn in 1775 in Casa Grand, OK. Also looking for Leathers connection to Barns, Burris, Bruce (La Bruce) and Angelo.
Posted: October 1999
Colleen Sudduth
Query: Mayfield, Snow
Posted: October 1999
Michael Nippet
Query: Tennant
Posted: October 1999
Andrea Vazquez (Hunter)
Query: Hunter, Vazquez
Posted: October 1999
Patti Jo Voeller (Hanes)
Query: Matney-Maddox
Posted: October 1999
Melinda Morrissey
Query: Johnson, White, Wilkerson
Posted: October 1999
Robert Strayn
Query: Hounshell, Strain, Whitlow
Posted: October 1999
Sam Valenti
Query: Mildred Travis: wife of Thomas M. Travis, and former wife of Lofton Mitchell, April 28, 1848–November 24, 1915, Trigg County Kentucky, possibly living in Hopkinsville or Canton Kentucky. Family lore rumors that Mildred Travis was Cherokee and that she as once married to the local Chief, possibly Lofton Mitchell. I have searched the Dawes and Miller Rolls as well as Cherokee Roots Volume 2, the Western Cherokee Rolls with no success. I have read that tracing Cherokee Roots in Kentucky can be very difficult. I would be thankful for any assistance in my quest.
Posted: October 1999
Barry Hurt
Query: Still, Susie
Posted: October 1999
Jill Combs
Query: Hugh Hill married to Mary Jane Clifton. Their child, Elsie, was born October 1909 and died in 1910 in Brian Co., Oklahoma.
Posted: October 1999
Angela Zills
Query: I am looking for information on my 2nd great grandmother she was Cherokee Indian her name was Millie Forrest Gordon born 1865? she was adopted by a family in Lauderdale county Alabama can anyone help me. She was 13 on the census record that I have and was adopted by a family named Durbin.
Posted: October 1999
Andrea Kim Crowe
Query: John, Barry, Berry Crow: Any Crow from Tate, Jasper G.A. I’m the grand daughter of Lee Roy Crowe.
Posted: October 1999
Don Hill
Query: I am looking into my fathers side of my family, his name is Donald Earl Hill, he was born in Chickshay OK on March 8, 1940 his fathers name was Jewell Hill. he lived on the Annadarko OK reservation his grandmothers last name was Skipworth. I know that the information that I have given is rather vague, but it is all that I have.
Posted: October 1999
Megan Griscom
Query: Ella Williams: Never married. Birthed several illegitemate children, one being my grandmother Loretta Willams of Spotsylvania, Virginia. Borne 1911. It is beleived Ella was of Cherokee heritage, Loretta’s father has never been mentioned. Lorettas birth certificate verifies her parents were unmarried. Loretta married Norwood Griscom. She died in 1998.
Posted: October 1999
Linda Adams
Query: Luis Adair – Oklahoma
Posted: October 1999
Geneva Marshall Woertz
Query: Greenie Gilnbreath: I am told is my grandmother, she married John William Marshall in Marshall County, Alabama. She gave birth to my father John Henry Marshall, September 28, 1891 in Marshal County, Alabama.
Posted: October 1999
Jenn
Query: Kuykendall, Wilson, Foree, Tharp
Posted: October 1999
Sarah Baker
Query: Sarah Baker was born in 1838 in central South Carolina-died in 1931.She was married to Joe Pack. They had a daughter Mary Margarat Pack-married a Coleman.Looking for Cherokee ancestry.
Posted: October 1999
Kathy A. Kiel
Query: My father was born in NE Texas in 1904, his name is Edward Young and told me his grandmother was Cherokee. Is there any connection?
Posted: October 1999
Theresa Strickland
Query: Roberts, Marsh, Wade, Jennings.
Posted: October 1999
Harriet Preston
Query: Thompson, Morgan, Matlock
Posted: October 1999
Patricia Erdmann
Query: Searching for Patton, ? who supposedly had a Cherokee common law wife that he hid during the Trail of Tears. They had Patton, John Armstrong J. b. 1846 d. 1926 who married Bailey, Frances Ann in Kentucky. They had Patton, Warren b.5/23/1876 d.5/16/1936 who married Eva Ellen Davis in Kentucky. Patton and Davis had my grandmother. Bailey and Davis were from Fleming County. My grandmother swears she remembers a picture of a small dark woman hanging on a bedroom wall and a long braid. When she asked about the picture and hair she was told “We don’t talk about her.” I was told she was called Annie. Who knows?
Posted: October 1999
Tommie Wright
Query: Mary Jane Wright, Cherokee, born aproximately 1857 or there abouts. Born in Moulton Alabama. She had three sons but never married. Three sons were John, James & William. Trying to verify her Cherokee blood by any local records.
Posted: October 1999
Pam Sweeney
Query: Emma C. Wheeler married Issac T. Story in Ohio 1853 and moved to Mo. because family disowned him because he married an Indian. An Emma C. Wheeler is listed on the Rolls. Would like to find out if this is her, if a maiden could be listed.
Posted: October 1999
Early in Miller Co Mo
Query: I have several names, Atwell, Barnhart, Helton, Crismon, Bailey, Bellew, Gardner, that by oral history are Cherokee, all left NC and KY by 1842, some much earlier and all came to Miller Co Mo or surrounding, Osage, Gasconade, Pulaski or Maries Counties. Early Gardner in Miller Co Missouri. The Gardner name may have Catawba Indian ancestry.
Posted: October 1999
Jean Smith
Query: Rhody Anne Williams was in Sevier County Tenn. in 1865. She married Samuel Jack Holden. Was born in Clay County North Carolina in 1879. They had 10 children one being Royal Jackson Holden born in 1903, my father I’m trying to find my Native American Ancestories.
Posted: October 1999
Linda Snodgrass
Query: William Wesley Crittenden was born Sept 25, 1838 in LaGrange, Alabama. Married Naomi Elizabeth. She was born May 10, 1835 in Corinth, Miss. They both died in Dayton, Arkansas. He in 1894 and she in 1920. They had 8 children, one Louise Willie Crittenden was my ggrandmother. We had always been told they was Cherokee Indian blood in our family and I am trying to verify this.
Posted: October 1999
Marge Marchese
Query: I am looking for information on the following person: Anderson or Andrews, Anna May born Oct 22, 1893 on a Cherokee Indian Reservation near Sand Springs, Olkahoma. The family later moved to Missouri.
Posted: October 1999
Joyce Hicks
Query: I have been told that my grandmother was part Cherokee, but I’m not sure. Her maiden name was Clifton from somewhere around Clay Co., Alabama.
Posted: October 1999
John Golden
Query: Golden
Posted: October 1999
Linda Howard Isbell
Query: Sarena McBride: Born about 1813 in GA, married Ishom Goff in Rhea Co. TN 1831. This family is in Bradley Co. TN by 1840, in Barry Co. MO in 1850 and Madison Co. AR in 1860. Sarena was Cherokee and they were required to leave TN. Children: Mary, b 183 ; John Henry, b 1835; William, b 1838; Martha, b 1841; Esther, b 1844; Elizabeth, b 1846; David Daniel, b 1849; Isabella, b 1854. All the children except the two youngest were born in Bradley Co. TN. David Daniel was born in Polk Co. IL before the family moved on to Barry Co. MO.
Posted: October 1999
Terry Evers
Query: Fitzgibbons, Killburn, Baker
Posted: October 1999
Bernadette L. Lick
Query: Grandfather Bruce, Chester of NovaScotia Canada. Great grandmother Nancy Davis, Roanoke Va.
Posted: October 1999
Andrew Marcrum
Query: Marcrum, Marcum, Freeman, Robinette
Posted: October 1999
Rick Mitchell
Query: William Mitchell: Walhalla, South Carolina.
Posted: October 1999
Bert W. Hudson
Query: Searching for information about Cherokee Chief Open Gate who lived in NC or VA. We have information that he may have been the father of my ancestor Sabra Estep, b. 2 June 1809 in KY or NC. Can anyone confirm or disprove this information?
Posted: October 1999
RoseMarie Dorer
Query: Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Thorpe: Born 1844 in Eastern U.S. Family records indicate that she was one-half Indian. (According to my grandfather, she was Cherokee.) Thorpe was the last name of the family that raised her and gave her their name, and possibly named her, as well. She was “given” to them for her to be raised and we don’t know why her parents left her or where they went–we have no information on her parents. She married George Sink on Oct. 15, 1868 in southwestern Virginia.
Posted: October 1999
Cheryl Holbrook
Query: My grandfather was Thomas Joseph Tayman Jr., born in Croom Maryland in 1917 his father was Thomas Joseph Tayman Sr. and his mother’s name was Mary – last name unknown. It is uncertain as to whether it was Thomas J. Tayman Sr or Mary that was Cherokee. My Grandfather, Thomas Joseph Tayman Jr died in Upper Marlboro Maryland between 1973 and 1975. Thomas Sr and Mary had nine children. I am searching for all of my grandfather’s siblings and any information I can gather on his parents.
Posted: October 1999
Cindy
Query: Padgett, Miller, Norman, West, Eubanks, Warren, Purvis, Alford
Posted: October 1999
Hal Walden
Query: Henry H. Foster: Any info appreciated.
Posted: October 1999
Ted Hawkins
Query: Cherokee Indians roll list Blackmom.
Posted: October 1999
Cliff Compton
Query: Burk, Ananias Benjamin b.16/5/1879 d.20/11/64.
Posted: October 1999
Elliott Rudder
Query: Rudder, Obryant, Moultrie, Jackson, Webb, Wilson, Johnson, Brown, Lyles, Goode, Doane, Springer, Symons, Ferris, Thurlow, Dugan, Oleary, Lambert
Posted: October 1999
Valerie Bridges
Query: Looking for info on Whitted and Whitehead surnames.
Posted: October 1999
Don & Mary Setser
Query: Sarah J. Houseman: My gggrandmother, born on 10/12/1842 in the Allegheny Mountains of VA, near White Sulphur Springs, believed to be Cherokee Indian. Died on 09/11/1906 in or around Caldwell, WVA, Married James Kern 01/22/1866. I’m searching for any of her family (mother, sisters, bros.) James Kern: Born in VA or WVA on 06/28/1846, died 07/09/1882, married Sarah J. Houseman on 01/22/1866. I am looking for other relatives of James Kern.
Posted: October 1999
Richard Tyner
Query: I believe his Cherokee name was Black Haw. He lived in Elbert Co. Georgia about 1790. I am looking for his Cherokee ancestory.
Posted: October 1999
Kathy Gibler
Query: Abraham Bledsoe: No birthdate’ date of death January 25, 1939. Abraham married Lavada Mae Meadows. Do not have wedding date. They had two children. Katherine Bledsoe born 8/26/1900 and Granville born 1912. Katherine was born in Van Buren Arkanas, Granville was born in Cheeotah OK. I am not sure if they migrated from North Carolina or Kentucky. I am not sure that Lavada was Cherokee. We think she was. At this time I do not know Abraham or Lavada’s parents. Any help will be appreciated!
Posted: October 1999
Christi Johnson
Query: Maggie Turner: Born near the Smokey Mountains around late 1800s. She died in 1940-1950. Married to Bart Dawson and was mother to Helen, Paul, and another girl. I’m looking for any information on her.
Posted: October 1999
Jill Dusing
Query: Cheek, Ladd, Abernathy, Lincoln, Bess. All resided in Bollinger/Cape Girardeau County Missouri, late 1700-early 1800’s.
Posted: October 1999
Mary Lee Neal
Query: Mangrum, Mancram, Peters, Stapp, Admanda Elizabeth was born in Georgia on 25 July 1829. Died in 1914. Married Harmon Stapp in UNK. I am looking for her parents.
Posted: October 1999
Peterson-Rhea
Query: Cottrell
Posted: October 1999
Margie Myers
Query: John Fosnaught was part Cherokee. He lived in Lawrence County, PA, possibly in Wampum. He had a son John and a daughter Helen and I think another son. Helen married Clyde Myrn Myers, who died in the 1980’s I believe. I am looking for information on his parents and grandparents as well as his siblings.
Posted: October 1999
Judy Walker
Query: Smith, Henson: Seeking info on my ggg-gparents, Jonathan & Sarah (Henson?) Smith. They lived in the Monroe County area of TN at the time of the Civil War. One or both of them was at least part Cherokee.
Posted: October 1999
Jean Edgar
Query: Henry A. Ferguson married to Melinda (who was Irish). Henry died around 1924. Was born in Oklahama. Had twin sons, Henry Alvin Ferguson and Verne Ferguson, born in 1900.
Posted: October 1999
Jerry Motes
Query: Motes, Davis
Posted: October 1999
Max K. Lowdermilk
Query: I am interested in knowing Laudermilks, Loudermilks or Lowdermilks among the Eastern Band of Cherokees. The story is that a Laudermilk soldier married a Cherokee Indian lady on the Trail of Tears and that the family settled in the West. Was the author of the song, Cherokee a Cherokee? John Loudermilk.
Posted: October 1999
Awiusdi
Query: Looking for anyone registered who has Darnells Bryants or Tallys from North Carolina.
Posted: October 1999
