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Mary Turner
Query: Looking for Ancestors of Zena LITTLE Panola Alabama.
Posted: September 2012
Peggy Flowers
Query: Im looking for my grandmothers parents MOONEYHAM or MARSH.
Posted: September 2012
Allen Laster
Query: Anna Belle or Belleih KENNISON.
Posted: September 2012
Shirley Drexler
Query: Looking for history of Joanna LASLEY or SERATT from OK, I am her granddaughter.
Posted: September 2012
Deana
Query: Hello, I just found out that my 3rd great grandfather was full blood Cherokee. I am trying to find out how to determine his roll number and tribe information. His name was Robert Asbury BLACK. His father was John Spencer “Running Bear” BLACK who was married to Haness “Running Dear”. Running Bear’s parents were “Hunting Bear” and “Flower Face”. “Running Deer’s” parents were “Singing Wolf” and “Little Feet”. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Posted: September 2012
T. Richardson
Query: I am looking for my family. My gr gr grandparents are Eligah REED and Diannah Dicey HUFF. My Gr gr gr grandparents are Wiley REED and Susan LUNSFORD. My Gr gr gr gr grandparents are Winnifred HOLLINGSWORTH and Stephen REED any information on these REED families are appreciated.
Posted: September 2012
Linda Darlene Scott
Query: I did not find out about my biological father until I was 49. My mother was dying of cancer and decides I needed to know. She said his name was RICHARD CHASTAIN and she met him in Stockton, California in 1948 or 1949. I was born in February 1950. My mothers name was HELEN LAVERN DUKE at that and her maiden name was WOODS. She was married but separated when they met. She told me he was a full blooded Cherokee; and, I am the spitting image of him, except I am female. She was 17 when I was born; but, she never told him about me. He was 19 at that time. Both of their families worked in the fields and followed the fruit harvests here in the San Juaquin Valley of California. She said he liked to dance, play guitar and sing, roller skate, play baseball and play pool; or billiards. These are my favorite things also. I have been searching since 1999 and still have not found many answers. My mother was taken away by her mom and dad before I was born and she never saw or heard from him again so he never even knew she was pregnant. Unfortunately, my mother has passed now and this is all the information she could give me before she died. If someone can help me find him PR information about him it would answer so many questions for me.
Posted: September 2012
W Johns
Query: I am looking to see if Elisabeth, or Elizabeth HUDSON from Coalburg Alabama may have been Cherokee. It is rumored that my ggg grandfather kidnapped her from an Oklahoma indian reservation. His name was Roland HUDSON. Her maiden name was Elizabeth LEGGETT. She died and is buried in Coalburg Alabama. She died sometime around 1930.
Posted: September 2012
Shannon Slocum
Query: I’m looling for information on Emma Jane TERRELL 1/2 indian. Daughter Margurite Defteese ECKERSON. Aroynd the mid 1850 Emma was born.
Posted: September 2012
Brenda Miller Davenport
Query: My father – James Lonnie MILLER would be 90 yrs old now always said his grandfather was a Cherokee Indian Chief. His mother, Hattie Lee HENDRIX looked like an Indian Squall right out of the old movies. The records show she was born in 1899. Her father was James Edward HENDRIX, we think born in 1849 and we think his father was Calvin HENDRIX. The family lived in Perquimans County, NC near Hertford and New Hope. I found many HENDRIX names in the Oklahoma area but not Cherokee. I have always been interested in the Cherokee family heritage but have not been able to find the right one.
Posted: September 2012
Richard Churchill
Query: I am trying to get information about Julia POWERS and Lillie Powers DUKES, my great-great-grandmother and great-grandmother, respectively. We have a photo of Julia with a caption about her (described as “a Cherokee woman”) marriage to G.M. POWERS. Lillie, Julia’s daughter, married Joseph Alfred DUKES (a Choctaw) in 1904. As I am having trouble finding information, including whether either was on the Dawes Commission rolls for the Cherokees, or any of their ancestors. Any chance you might either send me a link to a complete listing of the rolls, or tell me whether either or any of their ancestors are on the roles (with roll no.)?
Posted: September 2012
Lori Anne Biss
Query: Seeking any information on Cherokee anscestor: ASHNAH PARROTT, I believe her father was SAMUEL PARROTT, but that is all the information I have. Ashnah married Abraham THOMPSON and is my Great-great-great Grandmother, thank you!
Posted: September 2012
Melissa Gebhardt
Query: I was adopted and am trying to find the name of my biological great grandmother. I know my biological grandmothers name is Maybelline TRENT born 1955. Maybelline’s mother is Mary Lois HUTCHESON born 1933. Mary Lois’s mother was Mary Agnes Baney HUTCHESON and not sure when she was born possibly 1908, Mary Agnes BANEY‘s husband was Jack HUTCHESON or known as Johnny…, but it’s her mother’s name is who I am trying to find out. She was a full blood cherokee and possibly lived in North Carolina. That is all I know and have been trying to find all this out.
Posted: September 2012
Stacy Weber
Query: David Calvin MCGEE Cherokee Indian.
Posted: September 2012
Darrell Storts
Query: Any information on my gg grandmother went by the name Pony DAVIS, Ada DAVIS, Elsie DAVIS, Adaline DAVIS. Married to a Jackson DAVIS. Pony’s supposidly native american. (Cherokee)
Posted: September 2012
S. Renee Miller
Query: Looking for G. Wesley OAKES and wife Rose COLE. She was from Oklahoma; I surmise he was from Greenville, Miss as that is where they lived with children until they died (@1970s). They had 13 children, of whom 2 or 3 are still living: William OAKES, and “Chick” OAKES. Wesley liked to give his children nicknames. “Luelle” lived in Kentucky after she married Cletus (no last name). Several of the boys died early working on the levee.
Posted: September 2012
Charlotte Birt
Query: I am looking for MARY-ANN ELIZABETH AMMONS. I was told she was full blooded Cherokee. Also HOMER HUMMINGBIRD. I was told he married my great aunt last name CANNON.
Posted: September 2012
Earl Bennett
Query: EARL BENNETT age 53
Charles BENNETT AZ age 87
Eugene BENNETT AZ
Posted: September 2012
Robyn
Query: My father told me tonight I am Cherokee on my grandfathers side. My grandfathers name is Rufus Franklin HOWARD. His mother was Mary Evelyn SANFORD HOWARD born 1909. Married to Roy Franklin HOWARD. I’m so confused. Names that pop up in searches are last name COX and a John EARPE (HARP). I don’t know if the last name is too far back or how to even understand these geneology writings.
Posted: September 2012
Elizabeth Hightower
Query: I am looking for info on my great grandfather John Henry NEELY. He was born in Florida around 1860. We were told that he was full blooded Cherokee.
Posted: September 2012
K Steadham
Query: My great great grandmother was full blooded Chickasaw indian, she was born 1882-1959, Frances “Alethia” HANCOCK, (she married William Clinton “Clint” SCOTT of Smith Co, MS) they had twins, Alrnold SCOTT and his sister that died at birth, trying to find information her, its been hard trying to find anything about her even the family thats still alive that knew who she was have no clue the only thing that is said is she was-” the sweetest lady you would ever meet.”
Posted: September 2012
Eva Barnes Koeper
Query: I posted a query in May but got no response. I am still no closer to finding my great grandfather’s Cherokee people than before. My great grandfather was William Henry BARNES. He was adopted and I do not know his Cherokee name. I do have reason to believe that he visited Oklahoma durng early 1900’s. He said he was a chief’s son. His wife’s name was Francis Lula ROACH. His oldest son (my grandfather) was Willis Marion BARNES. There must be someone who knows something about William Henry’s people. Please, contact me.
Posted: September 2012
Joseph Sneed
Query: My grandfather was Joe/Joseph T. FADY. His father was Walter E. FRADY. His mother was 100% Cherokee I’m told. Her name, I think, was Mary LEE, and I’m unsure of her last name. The FRADY‘s were from Mississippi and the Mary LEE may have been from Alabama or Gorgia. I dont know.
Posted: September 2012
Amber Cameron
Query: I’m looking for my great grandmothers parents and maybe pictures if anyone has any. Her name is Roberta MOORE she marred a Frank GRAY. I was told she is Cherokee and Chickasaw. So if anyone has info please get back to me.
Posted: September 2012
Sierra Rowan
Query: I am looking for information on my greatgrandparents. I had heard that one of them was Cherokee, but I haven’t a clue which. Their names are Wirt BURGESS and Stella CANTERBERRY.
Posted: September 2012
Carole Lieber
Query: I am trying to build my family tree and have not been able to find much information about my great-uncle’s wife, I am hoping someone can help. I was always told she was Cherokee and as a child I rememeber watching a movie at her house of her grandmother on a reservation. My aunt was Ella Barbara SCOTT, SCOTT is her married name, born 1910 in McGofflin County KY, she had a sister Stella born around 1912, that is about all I have other than old photos that indicate they were taken in Wayne. Thanks for your help!
Posted: September 2012
Betti Giles
Query: I have been told my grandmother was part Cherokee. Her name was Goldie Lillian PHARR, and she was married to Ruby Chester PHARR. How do I find out if this is true?
Posted: September 2012
Jerry Hughes
Query: My grandmother was part Cherokee her name Susan Jane HUGHES DOB 1867 Her parents are Milton NEWSOME and Mary TYLER or TYLOR. Mary TYLER parents are William TYLOR(sp?) and Martha YATES, they were in Kentuckey. Susan was Cherokee we think, If you have ant info, please help.
Posted: September 2012
Kesayian
Query: Looking for Elizabeth CILLEY who was living with daughter & husband Rosa & John ASBY in the 1900 census in Township 20. Would like date of death and place of burial.
Posted: September 2012
David Patterson
Query: I am a descendent of a woman Sarah Elizabeth WATSON, daughter of Running Bear; she married John Campbell DAVIDSON in December 1872 in Llano Co. TX – do you have record of her and Running Bear and their connection to the Cherokee Nation.
Posted: September 2012
Darlene Lemons
Query: Jacob R. BOWMAN 1802-1858.
Posted: September 2012
India Sue Brown
Query: I’m in search of my mothers family. Her father was Gerald Lavern WARD and her mother was Mary BYARS. I’m not sure if im spelling my grandmothers last name right. She had a brother that was killed young named Kennith WARD and her sister that passed last year name Patricia Sue WARD. All my mother can tell me about her life is being really young her mother passing and her Dad Gerald Lavern WARD going to war which pushed her to the home for the kids in Cook county, Chicago. She also spent some time in Naples FL and was married to my father in Polk county FL. She has one relative that has contacted me for Kalamazoo Mich. in the mountains. I know there was Eurnice CHAPMAN tied into my Grandfather some how. My mother is marked a private child and I was wondering if anyone was looking for her to put pieces together. Her name is Teresa Betty Jo WARD 12 – 9 – 59. She is very lonely and I’d love to find more out about her. I have done a lot of searching and I just don’t want to put all information out there due too her safety. Also she was given shock treatments at a very young age and I was wondering if anyone knew why they would do that. My grandfathers brothers was Louie WARD, Bill WARD, Scott WARD, also a sister Katherine WARD also goes by Happy WARD. 8133810353 please feel free to contact me.
Posted: September 2012
Mary Cloutier
Query: Replying to Sandy VINZANT–I’m also researching a Mary Lucy HARDING. She was born circa 1862. She was educated in Michigan, served as a missionary in Gaboon, Africa 1882-89, then taught in the freedmen’s schools until at least 1900. She was said to be a mixture of (American) “Indian, negro and white.”
Posted: September 2012
Mike Engle
Query: Interested in Francis Marion WASHINGTON POGUE that married Dortha Matilda DIXON 1/2 Cherokee Indian name “Bunky” Dortha’s parents were “Running Feather” of the bushytop tribe and Samuel DIXON. If anyone has any information on them a reply would be greatly appreciated.
Posted: September 2012
Lorene B Randolph
Query: I am searching for proof of my husband’s Native American heritage through his grandmother, Savannah Vesty DAVIS, b. 1869 Walker Co. AL. Her mother was Mary BLACKWELL, whose father was Davidson BLACKWELL b 1809, and mother was Sophia HENRY b 1807, came to Ala. from Carroll Co, Ga.
Posted: September 2012
Darrell L. Banks
Query: Am I part Cheokee?
Posted: September 2012
Martha
Query: Mary BELL b. 1800 had a daughter Rebecca B. BELL b. 1820 Randolf or Rowan, NC. Rebecca’s father could have been Cherokee but don’t know for sure. Rebecca had a daughter Mary Margaret BELL b. 1858 Nathan, Pike Co., AR. The last name of Mary Margaret’s father was EFFORT. I have narrowed her father down to John EFFORT b. 1817 GA (full blood Cherokee) but I have not confirmed this relationship at this time. Mary had a daughter Martha b. 1891 Choctaw Nation, IT, OK. This was my grandmother. My father always said that he was 1/8 Indian. How do I prove my Indian heritage from Rebecca and/or Mary Margaret BELL?
Posted: September 2012
Ely Blankenship
Query: Looking for my roots from the early 1800. He came from England and married a Cherokee lady, some where in Va. Last his last name was BLANKENSHP.
Posted: September 2012
Chandra Moon
Query: I am searching for information on a relative. She was adopted by a family with the last name HUTTON after her parents died during the Trail of Tears. I may not be spelling her name right but it is Jerusah Hilla HUTTON. Can anyone help? She may have married a MOON.
Posted: September 2012
Joe Maxted
Query: Looking for possible connection to Chief BOWLES, or his people to Charles or Peter DEMOSS, or Joseph BAYS and Roseina WITCHER (BAYS). Family originates in NC and ends in Texas as old 300 settlers. Also Margaret Ann Elizabeth STEWART. Censuses say TN, MS, and AL for birthplaces. Married to MURPHREE family. Parents may be John STEWART and Jane MCGEE.
Posted: September 2012
Wounded Bear
Query: Steven and Mary BROWN are my 2g granparants the lived in Alexander, MO in 1889 when Clarence Edward BROWN was born and Steven had 2 brothers one lived in Alton, IL and started his own bussiness and it was a factory or plant back than and the other brother lived in Iowa.
Posted: September 2012
Jerome Cole
Query: I have a genealogy study that claims that my great, great grandmother was a Cherokee. Her name was Mary Ann SMITH, born in Virginia in 1821. She married Samuel MCCLELLAN. Can you confirm this?
Posted: September 2012
Sandy Hart
Query: My father is 1/2 Cherokee. Teddy Melvin GRAHAM born 7-7-1933 in Big Creek Arkansas to Andy GRAHAM born in Arkansas and Vivian SMITHSON born in Texas, Vivian is known to be 100% Cherokee. I would like to know my family tree and my connection to the Cherokee tribe. My name is Sandra Jean GRAHAM born in Cambridge, England 10-06-1958.
Posted: September 2012
Larry Thomas
Query: Etta Mae WALKER (Born in Vian, Oklahoma) Dec. 7, 1904 Died Jan. 11, 1962 Benton Ark. Married to Joseph Arwine TODD.
Posted: September 2012
Shannon Patrick
Query: I am trying to look up my family tree and have hit a dead end. I know that my great grandfather James BRYANT married a Laura HUNTER in 1905 and that they lived Cherokee Nation land at the time of marriage. They had a son named Harold in 1904, but the marriage license definately says 1905 is when they were married. Could I get more information about these two. My mom also remembers the name Leona, I don’t know if she was related or not. The name Daniel RATTLINGGOURD has also come up as an uncle.
Posted: September 2012
Bobbi Marcum Smith
Query: My Great Grandmother “Phoebe (DEMPSEY) CHILDERS” was captured by the Cherokee around 1905. She had a son born while in the Cherokee camp on April 6, 1906 and she escaped with him. She then married and he gave my grandfather his name. I need to know who my real great grandfather was. Can you help me?
Posted: September 2012
Emily Williams
Query: I am looking for information on my gggggrandmother, who was Cherokee. She married a man named John EVANS. They had a daughter named Areanna EVANS who was born in 1837 and married a man named Allison HIGH. I have been searching for a long time with no luck. I think the woman I am looking for lived in North Carolina in the 1830s.
Posted: September 2012
Kenneth Cooper
Query: Looking for details on Annie YOUNG, a Cherokee woman who was married to my g-g-g grandfather Thomas RAGSDALE through December 1875. The couple lived on a farm in Sequoyah District of the Cherokee Nation. Court records indicate Annie YOUNG suffered from epilepsy.
Posted: September 2012
Donna Dye Brown
Query: My paternal grandparent were Tom and Bertha DYE. My father passed down information that his mother was of Cherokee Native ancestry from N.C. I am having problems locatitng any Native information. My fathers mothers last name was ALLISON. My father was born. I believe in Patterson Vounty Ark. I would like to know what percentage of Cherokee my grandmother was. Thank you for any information. My fathers name was Raymond Harold DYE and was born Nov. 4th 1926.
Posted: September 2012
Sharon Lee Harris
Query: I was told by my parents that I am part Cherokee Indian. I do not have a tribal number and was assured that there was one on my father’s side of the house though his fathers bloodline. What do I need to do to find the tribal number?
Posted: September 2012
Lorraine
Query: I am trying to find out if my great-grandmother was Cherokee or Blackfoot. Her married name was Mary BANDY and her brother’s name was John COLE.
Posted: September 2012
Galyn Hopper
Query: My Great Grandmother is Cherokee and on the roll. Her name is Eula MAYBERRY and her brother was Frank MAYBERRY. She married a white man named Andrew MASSEY at the turn of the century. I am just looking for information on how to locate her information.
Posted: September 2012
Melissa Mays
Query: I am looking for info on my great great grandmother, Minnie MCCALL. She was full blooded Cherokee and was born “many deers”. She married a fur trapper and her name was changed to Minnie (MCCALL) sometime in the late 1800s.
Posted: September 2012
Gary Moseley
Query: I am looking for info on Jonathan Ruben BELL B. 1813, Chatham County N. Carolina. Father, James BELL B. 1787 United States, mother, Lydia Flowers CHAPMAN, B. 1792, United States, D. 1857, Alabama. James BELL‘s father, Thomas BELL, B.1754, D. 1830, United States. Mother, Mary LASSITER, B. 1751, D. 1840, United States. Lydia CHAPMAN‘s father, David CHAPMAN, B. 1762, D. 1814, United States. Her mother, Elizabeth FLOWERS, B. 1765, D. ? United States.
Posted: September 2012
