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Olivia Coles
Query: Enice COLES (3/31902 – 4/26/1967) parents are Dan and Sally COLES who are from danville virginia who were slaves and worked on the COLES plantation. Enice is very hard to track so I suspect a name change. He states that his one of his grandfathers were cherokee. My grandfather roy COLES says he also remembers this indian man as his great grandfather. we think enice had around 15 siblings but we can only halfway recall the names jean & lucille COLES. running into a brick wall. Can’t really verify if his parent real names are dan and sally 🙁
Posted: March 2013
Mary Anne Warr Petersen
Query: Looking for Erin WEBBER. I have info on Walter James WARR, Your great great grandfather.
Posted: March 2013
Adiene Humble
Query: I am trying to find out if I have Cherokee roots. My family lines are THOMPSON, GLASS, WEEKS, CRAWFORD, REYNOLDS, HARRIS, CHISUM/CHISHAM. COOK, THOMAS, LEE and BARLEY.
Posted: March 2013
Henry Russell
Query: Looking for relatives or any information to George W. DEROIN, Iowa Tribe or George RUSSELL, possibly Cherokee decent.
Posted: March 2013
Nancy Parr
Query: 1. Alexander MYERS b.1802 Mississippi d. abt.1869 Louisiana
2. Maryann Elizabeth MYERS b. 2 Feb 1834 Mississippi d. 20 Feb 1907 Texas
Posted: March 2013
Tiffany
Query: Looking for Cherokee heritage information for woman named Bess Morrow PINKERTON born in ealry 1900s…possible 1902. She lived in Oklahoma on ther reservation and possibly moved to Woodward, OK. I had heard she was part of the Wolf pack and related to a princess but am uncertain of the validity of that info. She also had a child, Charlotte B RAUTERT in Wyoming. Any information is greatly appreciated.
Posted: March 2013
Jeanette
Query: William CRABTREE
Birth 1740
Death 1765 in Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States
Married Ann RILEY
Birth 1 Sep 1740 in Middletown
Death 1796
Any info on William plz.
Posted: March 2013
Muriel Tew
Query: Trying to locate my great great grandmother Theresa JOHNSON born 21 sep 1810 in Breckenridge< Kentucky and married Joel ADKISSON in 1831 in Clifton Mills, Breckenridge, Kentucky. I have no information of her parents and family.
Posted: March 2013
Jackie Bensinger
Query: I am interested in tracing my Cherokee heritage and see if I am eligible to join the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. I was born Jackie WHITE. The Cherokee blood runs through the female side of the families. My Mother, born in 1927, was part Cherokee, Ruth Virginia Emerson WHITE. Her mother was Daisy Catherine MINK EMERSON. I have heard that prior to MINK may have been the Hash family. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Posted: March 2013
Bob Martin
Query: I’m looking for information on my ggg grandmother Mary Ann HARVEY born ABT 1823 and died 1895 in Albemarle Virginia. She was married to Richard O. GIBSON in Oct. 1, 1849 again in Albemarle Virginia. The story has it she was 100% Cherokee Indian. There is a chance that she might have also been Powhatan, Monacan and/or Mattiponi Indian. If anyone has information of confirmed native Americans with the HARVEY surname that might be here parents and/or siblings and would be very much appreciated.
Posted: March 2013
Beth
Query: Has anyone run across a ‘Black Jack GILLMOR‘ ?? TXS
Posted: March 2013
Lacey Holleman
Query: My grandmothers name is Thelma Alice SEALS BRYANT NARA T627. I was born Doris Marie BRYANT SPENCE but since changed my name due to adoption to Doris Danee HOLLEMAN then divorce to Lacey Danee HOLLEMAN. I am trying to research my Cherokee blood line.
Posted: March 2013
Jodie Hutchinson
Query: Trying to find the birth parents of my grandmother. She was adopted as a young child but found no adoption records. She has been listed in census records starting in 1920 census when she was 9 years old, living in the Skaggs household as a border along with a Warren BRICKEY, 27 years old. Her first name is Hytha and have found her under Hetha as well. She was listed in 1940 census as Hytha M. BRICKEY HUTCHINSON. Found different spelling of BRICKLEY also. My father, Cletus Martin HUTCHINSON Jr, knew only she was passed around families at a young age. Census states she was born in Tennessee in 1910. Just want to find my Cherokee family.
Posted: March 2013
Linda Gruber
Query: I am searching for information about my great grandmother Ida Bell WEST-NORRIS. Ida was said to be Cherokee and the picture my uncle has she looks full blood. If you have any information to help me I would appreciate it GREATLY!!
Posted: March 2013
Angela Mckane
Query: Vivion BELVAN LARMON VIVION, was born abt 1849.. 1851 His adopted parent were married in 4 Oct 1855. So he was probably older than 4-6 years old. He showed up on a census when he was 19. So somewhere inbetween 1855 and 1870 is when the LARMON family took him in and cared for him. He said he was forcebly taken from his real family and given to the larmons and that he was Cherokee. He is named after Mary CROSTWAITES father, Vivion. so i dont know what his birth name is. Vivion and and my great grandmother Sophronia lucinda LANGWORTHY, was already, seperated when thier daughter, Leora turned up on a 1900 census in Texas. My grandmother Leora was 2 and her oldest brother eugene was eight. on that 1900 census Sophronia lucinda LANGWORTHY, claimed Leora as her niece and on a 1910 census Sophronia lucinda LANGWORTHY, claimed Leora as a stepdaughter. He left Texas and turned up on a 1900 census in New Mexico, Vivian lived in New Mexico. and on a 1900 census, sophronia lived in Texas. This has been a hard trail to follow. I just know that my grandmother leora died when i was young and that she had tried to find her real family but couldn’t find a way. i am hoping that there might be records of adoption of cherokees. he was adopted in tolono illinois. by Isaac LARMON and Mary CROSTHWAIT LARMON.
Posted: March 2013
Paula Dorman Baecher
Query: I am trying to find any links that tie The REDMON families to The Cherokees. My Great grandfather was John REDMON who married Mary E.and my Grandmother wasw Emma Alice (Doll) REDMON DORMAN.
Posted: March 2013
Junior Greene
Query: Seeking information on Nancy C. SMITH, born abt 1817 in N/S Carolina, her mother was Mime POOLE who is supposodly enrolled in the Cherokee Tribe?
Posted: March 2013
B. Hight
Query: I am trying to find the first name of my great great grandmother. She is Cherokee. Her surname is WALKINGSTICK. She lived in the Dalton/Fulton, Georgia area. She bore a son by a wealthy land owner named James Lawrence HIGHT (1830-1909). Their son was named Stonewall Jackson HIGHT (1862-1909).
Posted: March 2013
Donald Clay
Query: What was the heritage of my granfather Christopher Columbus CLAY, who died in Checotah, Oklahoma in 1936? His Dawes number is 5308. Was Henry CLAY (2181) his father?
Posted: March 2013
Kristian Gordon
Query: MARSENGILL or a variant MARCENGILL, MARSHENGILL, ETC… originating in northern georgia with Cherokee ancestry. I am Tsalagi/cherokee and my family name is MARSENGILL and am looking for anyone related to this family with Cherokee ancestry.
Posted: March 2013
Vicki
Query: Good Evening,
I’m tracing my BAILEY ancestry in search of important information and any ancestry of Indian blood.
Our searches for Benjamin BAILEY 1755-1813, his wife, Ann Elizabeth WATKINS 1764-1812, and their one son Jeremiah 1784-1825, is at a standstill. To continue our lineage we need more information about this line of Bailey’s and I’m hoping you can help with this. Our family line is in Nottoway County, Virginia and surrounding areas.
In the 1812 Widows pension documents for Mary Ann ANDERSON, B.W. BAILEY mentions in a letter he had a cousin James R. GATES and notes he died June 1871. Cousins are usually connected via Aunts and Uncles, I’m wondering.
James R. GATES mother was a Sarah BAILEY b. 1753 in Chesterfield, Va, who was a daughter of a Benjamin BAILEY b. 1736??. Sarah BAILEY b. 1753 married a James GATES who was the parents of this James R GATES mention in B.W. document. Sarah BAILEY had siblings Abraham b. 1758, Rachael b. 1763 and Henry b. 1785. I’m wondering if this Sarah BAILEY could have been a sister to our BB b. 1755?, this would make Sarah BAILEY‘s children cousins to Benjamin W. BAILEY?
One last detail that has left us completely baffled is that of my great/great-grandmother. She is the daughter of Benjamin Watkins BAILEY 1814-1899 and named Lillie Irving BAILEY SKELTON 1863-1959. Our tree confirms her birth, death and marriage to John Washington SKELTON and then ends. We’ve visited her grave (Amelia, Va) and found she and John was buried separately, which leaves us wondering if she was Indian.
I appreciate your time and any information you may have to help us.
Thank you,
Vicki Skelton Scott
VScott19@ancestry.com
Posted: March 2013
Marj MacLean
Query: I am interested in finding out about my THORNTON family heritage, which includes Wiley G., Jeremiah, and Frances THORNTON aka. FERGUSON. Jeremiah supposedly left Virginia for parts unknown due to Indian Removal. I have court records confirming heritage, but all siblings but Frances are claimed by another family. I would be interested in any help with this.
Posted: March 2013
Gabe Youngblood
Query: I would like some more info on a Susan HANKINS. She is Cherokee Indian. She is a possible ancester of Pocahontas. Husband is Daniel HANKINS. Thank You
Posted: March 2013
Mandi W.
Query: I am a descendent of William Lestley (possibly Leslie) RICHMOND. The only information I have on his parents is that his father immigrated from Germany through England to Virginia. He was a cobbler and said to have married a blind Cherokee woman. When the father immigrated, he changed his original name REICHMANN to RICHMOND. My problem is that I can find no information about his Cherokee wife to add to my family tree. I know her son, William L. RICHMOND, didn’t know his biol. father, as he thought the man that raised him was his father. The blind mother and son supposedly walked the Trail of Tears. There is distant relative chatter that Chief John ROSS is connected somehow-maybe a surrogate father(?), but I don’t know if this is sensationalism or fact. I’d appreciate any advice on following the Native American side of my family tree.
Posted: March 2013
Lynne
Query: Trying to disprove Native American ancestry in a family that thrives on rumor. Name is Catherine (BUCHANAN) who married a Samuel GARLAND (not the Samuel Garland of the Cherokees). B. abt 1825.
Posted: March 2013
Christy Simeon
Query: would like to know if Bert Barney JOHNSON born july 2, 1924 – May 20, 1992 was cherokee indian – believed to be born in missouri
Posted: March 2013
Lindsay
Query: Magaret e PETTY (mayo Sweeney skinner) born circa 1837 in decatur co TN. believe mothers name was rhoda maybe STEAGALD as maiden name. Married Micah SWEENEY from alabama or Mississippi after moving from Decatur co. TN.
Posted: March 2013
Teresa Morris
Query: my grandfather name was luscious MORRIS and his father was from Virginia and his mother was from gerorgia trying to know his parents frist name. lucious MORRIS is from Talladega Alabama died about 1930.
Posted: March 2013
Teresa Griffith
Query: Surname WASSON
Posted: March 2013
Larry Tice
Query: Attempting to locate maternal great-grandmother alleged to be of Cherokee ancestry. Her name was Margaret SWASKIKI, but I’m not even sure if this is the correct spelling, dob etc. She would have been my grandfather’s mother. His name was Samuel DALTON-HENEY who was born in 1895 in Western Oregon. There are no records I am able to locate with the name of Swasiki or varients and the story seems anecdotal only
Posted: March 2013
Susan Congalton
Query: Looking for information about Ida PHILLIPS my great great grandmother who was full blooded Cherokee Indian and is now buried in New Mexico.
Posted: March 2013
Kerri Abernathy
Query: I am looking for information on my great-great grandmother, Her name was Emiline (UNKNOWN) LAMBERT and she was said to have been 100% Cherokee Indian. The only thing that I can find is a headstone labeled Emiline LAMBERT (1865-1940) not sure if this is her this grave is located in Southwestern Virginia. Also was told by grandmother that when Emiline passed away her hair was jet black and down to the ground because of her Indian roots she would never cut her hair. If you can help me at all it would be appreciated.
Posted: March 2013
