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Jean Stewart
Query: Henry (pap) keene Married Elizabeth Kirby. Left NC before The Trail Of Tears. Elizabets father was a missionary to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
Posted: November 2013
Jody K Hartley
Query: We did not take the trail of tears. Surnames: CURD, HARTLEY, REESE or REECE. Lenoir N.C., Kentucky, Tennessee.
Posted: November 2013
Krista Knight Fay
Query: I am looking for information on my ggg grandmother. She was 3/4 Cherokee born in 1821 in North Carolina, her name was Nancy Martha Little. Her and a brother were supposedly adopted to a family w the names of William Joseph Littlle and Mary Johnson. These may be her adoptive parents. I’m trying to find if and which, if any rolls she might be on. Or William Joseph Little may have been her father
Posted: November 2013
Jacqueline James
Query: The “Sims” family.
Posted: November 2013
jennifer vonsenden
Query: My father was Thomas Fowler he was adopted his biological father was Manny Turner I was told he was full blooded Cherokee trying to find answers and how to locate information on ancestors of my fathers father.
Posted: November 2013
Todd Rogers
Query: Callie Elizabeth McHolland born in Huntsville Arkansas 1884 her mother Sarah Esther Gilliland married Silas or Sylvester McHolland not sure of dates.
Posted: November 2013
Brandi Foster
Query: I am looking for info on my Cherokee family history from both parents side. My maternal great grandparents were James Madison lambert married to Callie Jane Lambert. Paternal side grandparents were Kingsley Scott married to Maxine Scott. The lambert side of the family hail from Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri areas. The Scott side from Missouri, Tennessee as far as I know.
Posted: November 2013
Tasia Hooper
Query: Looking for information about Lucinda Barret (Barrett?). I have found a family of Barret’s on the rolls prior to the final compilation (Cherokee Roots Eastern Volume 1). Believe other Barrett’s listed are her family. Lucinda died before the final rolls created. She is my great-great grandmother. Some in family say she was white; others maintain she was full blood. Any information would be appreciated. Sister and I would like to apply for tribal membership if we can trace our blood relation to Lucinda’s family. Thanks
Posted: November 2013
Barbara Miller
Query: I am looking to somehow validate the Cherokee heritage of my ggrandmother Rahana Mathis b. 1829 in S. Carolina she also was known as Lorena , Rena, and some of the census’ she is known as Hanah, she married Esquire West in Muncie Indiana. She was well known to be full blooded Cherokee and there are some suggestions that Esquire or Squire was Blackfoot.
Posted: November 2013
Sherry-Heather Blevins
Query: David and Harlan Blevins showed up 1790s in northeastern TN. David had 10 children (posted ancestry on www.Kindredkonnections.com), his first child Hugh was christened Cherokee Nation, his second son John I descended from. There was only one wife recorded and Ancestry.com shows her as the mother of both. I got into the University of Michigan EOP because of my Cherokee ancestry. They accessed my father’s records at the Pentagon (since destroyed through both a fire and a flood). David Blevins b 1960-70 married Sarah Torbett, their son John Torbett married Jane Darwin b 1818, their son William Perry b. 1852 married Jane Pierce, their son Thomas Byron b. 1896 was my grandfather and married Frieda Mae Keene all these boys had 10 kids until Thomas (1) and my dad another Thomas Byron Blevins (Jr) had 3 kids, the son died of lupus. Ancestry is important. All my relations are welcome to email me, I encourage and will share all I till have -many moves and homlessness have lost hardcopies
Posted: November 2013
John-Michael Fleig
Query: I am trying to track my history and get listed with the tribe. My great grandmother was Dorthea North, from the rez in NC. She married a man with the last name Fleig and moved to Baltimore MD. they had I believe 6 children, one was my grand father John George Fleig.
Posted: November 2013
Jennifer Koenig
Query: My great great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee. I am looking for any information on her. Her maiden name was Sohpia(e) Rayburn and she married as Sohpia(e) Gearin.
Posted: November 2013
nicole dirusso
Query: My grandmother name was jean hawkes frome Maine I dont know anything except she was full native american andI would like to learn more about my heritage. I was adopted so I dont know much.
Posted: November 2013
Jaime Keys
Query: I’m looking for my relatives. My great grand father was William Alvin Keys who married Belle Milam and had a son Alvin Jack Keys and several other children. My father is William Boyd Keys. He was born in 1942 in Tahlaquah, Ok.
Posted: November 2013
Diana Steele Spencer
Query: Looking for info on a g-g-g-g-grandmother, “CELIE” aka MARY STEEL, said to have been full-blood Eastern Cherokee; born about 1806 in South Carolina; married about 1828 to Richard A. Steel; lived in Rabun County, Georgia with her husband and their family in 1840; lived in Yellow Creek, Lumpkin County, Georgia (during the gold rush of that area), 1850; lived in the Purdies District, Dawson County, Georgia 1860; died about 1864 and is buried in Double Springs, Winston County, Alabama. Her children were: John Wesley Steele (my lineage), George Washington Steele, Catherine Steele, Emmanuel Steele, William M. Steele, Nancy Steele, Sinthia A. Steele, and Mary Steele. Would like to try to find a confirmation that “CELIE” aka Mary Steel was indeed a member on the Eastern Cherokee Tribe. Thank you for the opportunity to use your query resource.
Posted: November 2013
Alexandra Johnson
Query: I am looking for more information on my 4th great grandmother, Nancy “Running Hawk” Smith, born 1804. She was married to John Baker, born 1801. Thank you for your help.
Posted: November 2013
Jennifer
Query: Trying to find information on my great great grandmother. Her name was Missouri Dove and unfortunately that is the extent of my knowledge as all of those who had any information have since passed.
Posted: November 2013
Deb Wilson
Query: Looking for any information on the Maddox family. They would have left the are in the early 1800’s. Given names, James, Baptist, Church, and Zerish. Thank you.
Posted: November 2013
Alven Miller
Query: I am looking for any info on Jinney “Nellie” Hogg. Marriage records to a Miller??? Or her Maiden name? Death or Cemetery? Or any hint as to her husbands name. Most of the info on Ancestry.com regarding her is wrong unfortunately it has been copied over and over again on there. She was found owning land near Lookout Town “Old Squirrel Town” along Lookout Creek in Walker (Dade) county District 10. I believe section 4 but not for sure about that. Between 1832-1838. I would to even like to know which lot? Her 5 older children were relocated in the Benge Group. Peter and Jack Miller are two of her older boys. I cannot find if eventually she was rounded up or if she stayed behind. However, I cannot find the man Miller she had at least 5 children with not including 2 dead.
Posted: November 2013
Debi C
Query: Did Chief Oconostota have a daughter called Morning who married Marion Thomas Ramsey, and if so, is there any documentation?
Posted: November 2013
Donna Laizure
Query: My grandmother was Cherokee her name was Sarah Toney I would like to find out more about her. She never told us anything about her back ground only that she was a Cherokee.
Posted: November 2013
Roger Pistole
Query: Trying to determine % of native blood line, seems to be heavy on my mother’s side, though my father looked native
Posted: November 2013
Rhonda Long
Query: My name is RHONDA LONG I was born February 22 1967 in LAKE CITY TENNESSEE…I was told my daddy was from there…outside of KNOXVILLE TENNESSEE….my moms name was JULIE PEFLEY-HAMILTON…I was taken from him at a young age and taken to Chicago…my daddy is a Dark Cherokee Indian..I was told he was from the Turtle Tribe and was relocated to one of the Dakota’s…..my mom never wanted me to be reunited with him cuz she was scared I would be made fun of so she took me away and raised me with her European ways….I would love to know of anyone familiar with era of time…..I would love to find or know if my daddy
Posted: November 2013
Edward W. Brock
Query: My father was Worth William Brock, lived in Rockcastle Co. my grand father was Floyd ? Brock from Bell Co., my Great Grandfather was William Worth Brock, I was told he rode a mule and was a Baptist Preacher. I think he was from Bell or Clay Co. I would like information if possible on Cherokee Ancestors. My dad said we were close kin to Jesse Brock and his son Aaron Brock who was believed to be Chief Red Bird, any information would be great. Thanks Ed
Posted: November 2013
Judy Ann Gilliam
Query: My Great Grandmother was: Nellie Robinson.She was married to :Hiram Robinson.Their children were Frances Inez,Gwyndalyn,James,Lester and Cora.They lived in Florida.Duval county at the 1940 census
Posted: November 2013
Marianne Daggres
Query: My grandmother Sarah Lula Powers b 1887 Kentucky said her original family was on the Trail of Tears. Her bio mother was Sarah E. Pierce/Pearce and I found some Cherokee info way back to Jane Eagle Plume in Jamestown. Also some family on the Brown lines. Was hoping to find more current information on the family.
Posted: November 2013
lora lea highsmith
Query: My daddy told me I was 1/4 cherokee thur him and my grandmother her name was byrdie gordon she was born in tenn and my dads name was Harry Lee Hummel also born in tenn. I’m not sure when either of them were born but my dad was boen in ripley.
Posted: November 2013
Jaqueline E Spears
Query: Information about Ada CANNON nee COCHRAN. Particularly trying to find a copy of the book Ray Oklahoma and the People Who Lived There by Roy Hathcock.
Posted: November 2013
Lori
Query: Is there anyone on the list that can translate Cherokee names into Americanized names? I have a Dawes Commission application where the applicant named her Mother, Father, sisters and brothers in Cherokee. Is there any hope of finding their Americanized names?
Posted: November 2013
Jax
Query: Our last known ancestor listed on the Dawes rolls was Elizabeth Hughes. We are looking for her branch of the family that went to Oklahoma. Elizabeth and her descendents stayed in the South.
Posted: November 2013
Melissa Jackson
Query: I am searching for anything possible on through BOLDEN, BELL, and DUNHAM surnames of sneedville in Hancock County TN. The BELL’s originally came from NC, not sure what area. These names go back as far as the 1830’s. I am hoping to find at least one of my ancestors on the Dawes Rolls. On the census papers of their time the same people would be identified as a different race each time around, I’ve seen them marked as Indian, Black, and White. But, it is well known that they were Indian. Anything will be helpful. Thanks.
Posted: November 2013
mary west
Query: I am looking for any information on Andy(Andrew) or Polly Reece, or possibly Reese.
Posted: November 2013
Denise
Query: Looking for information on my Great Grandmother family. Her name was Mary Smoke. She was married to Jalum Chunestudy. Smoke Chunestudy was my grandfather.
Posted: November 2013
Debra Meeks-Nutter
Query: We can trace our Cherokee heritage back to the late 1700’s through Mourning Lawhorn and her daughter Sarah Lawhorn. Sarah had 10 children with my gg grandfather. We don’t know if either were on the Dawes Roll. Any help would be appreciated.
Posted: November 2013
Terry Shepherd
Query: Looking for a Mary Hill that married Harry S McRae in Fl in 1930. Both were born in Georgia and one or both have Cherokee ancestry. I was told by my father that it was his grandmother .This would make her Harry’s mother. Not 100% sure if she was Harry’s mother or Mary’s. Thank you.
Posted: November 2013
Barbara Talbert
Query: I’m searching for information about my father family. It was said that my father’s family was Cherokee. Henry Pierre, Joesph Talbert, Phyllis James, Mary Louise Pierre, Clarence Talbert, Sr. I think the family lived in or around Sunset, Louisiana, Lauderdale, Louisiana and Carencro,Louisiana. My family was born in 1912.
Posted: November 2013
WIMBLEY, Vickie Leonard
Query: I have been told that my grandmother was a Cherokee Princess: HILL, Myrtle Mae born: 1903.
Posted: November 2013
lisa mahaffey
Query: I am trying to trace my Cherokee heritage back through my grandfather’s family. The surnames are OGWGNES, OR OGWYNN OR GWYNN. I think they changed their name at some point. My great grandmother was Minnie OGWGNES OR OGWYNN, 1875-1945. She lived in Shawnee Pottawatomie, OK in 1930.
Posted: November 2013
jacqueline m. lee
Query: I am searching for information on just how much cherokee blood i have in me. My fathers name was james marion marlow who was born in louisville, kentucky. His mothers name was abigail britton marlow. Not sure where she was born, but i know they lived in cumberland gap, tenn. Please if u can help me to fi.d out anything pertaining to my indian herritage, i would forever be grateful to you. Thank you so much.
Posted: November 2013
Annette Wadsworth
Query: Looking for information on my great-grandfather Hezaciah Price.Had 2 daughters Pearl and Gertrude. We don’t know where he was buried.
Posted: November 2013
Debbie McHone
Query: I am very limited on what I have, but my Grandfathers name was Dallas Fay DAVIS b.11/13/1922 in Paris Arkansas died 12/27/1985 in Dallas,TX, his parents names were Andrew(Jack) Jackson DAVIS b. 01/09/1894-1896? died Oct.1951 in Akins,OK and Martha (Jenny)Jane DAVIS (DAVIS). Both Great grandparents were half blooded. I know Andrew (Jack)’s fathers name was Daniel Webster DAVIS and Jenny’s parents names were Ace and Net DAVIS.
Posted: November 2013
Robert Worden
Query: My great grandmother Lavina Josie Tidwell was born in 1847 in Tennessee. In the 1850 census Baits District, Cobb County, Georgia she along with her older sister Elizabeth (1844) and younger brother John (1848) were living with “Indian” John Tidwell, his wife and children from his first and current marriage and his mother Maria. Later this “Indian” John Tidwell went to Oklahoma was included on the Dawes Roll along with several of his children. I believe that Lavina Josie Tidwell is/was related to “Indian” John Tidwell (son of Young Deer and Maria Tidwell) but I have not been able to find the connection. She is not living with this family in 1860, I cannot find her and by 1870 she is married to Samuel Wylie Smith and living in White County, Arkansas.
Posted: November 2013
Deborah Cook
Query: I was told that my grandfather, Nathaniel Crump was born in the Great Smokey Mountains among the Cherokee people. I know that he was given the surname Crump when he was taken as a slave to Asheville, NC. I don’t know what his surname was before it was changed and I do not know his parents’ names. We have very little information except that he married Mary and they had children, one of whom was my grandfather, Victor Arthur Monroe Crump.
Posted: November 2013
marcie dymond
Query: hi im trying to find out about my great great great grandmother. her name was Sarah Eva Legg, born in / about 1823 i believe . she was full blooded Cherokee. she married Buford Campbell who was a sheriff. i am trying to prove my Indian . thank you
Posted: November 2013
Donna Gage
Query: My mother and fathers family are from Bryson city and Andrews N.C. Rumors of Indian heritage in our family, The family names are Brown and Pilkington,other name back before my grandparents are Passmore ,
Posted: November 2013
Leslie WHITE
Query: I am looking for information on my great grandmother. I think her first name was ADA.But I know her last name was WINDSET
Posted: November 2013
Stephanie Hightower
Query: Gladdis marie weaver her dad and mom stephen a mccaskell Fannie m weaver mcaskell her dad William weaver and her mother Lucinda Hoosier and im lost after them I need help if anyone has information about my family thank u
Posted: November 2013
patricia evans
Query: Looking for Cherokees from Twiggs County Georgia area including Jones, Bibb, Wilkinson counties. Researching EVANS family. Thanks
Posted: November 2013
Isabell Elizabeth Cherry
Query: I am from Wayne County NC and I am looking for any information the Indian descendents of the Cherrys or the Waters. I was told our great great? grandfather was a Cherokee chief and when they had to choose a surname he reduced Cherokee to Cherry. If anyone has any connections to my family please contact me. Thank you.
Posted: November 2013
Woelfel
Query: I am looking for relations to John Woelfel, a Cherokee who served in the military on a submarine I believe. I’m trying to find out how he is related to me. Are there any Woelfels out there who knew him?
Posted: November 2013
rachael
Query: I am wanting to find out if my maternal great grandmother was on the registry her name was Anna Jane HAUSER married to Tom JOHNSON her eldest daughter, my grandmother, was Delilah Mae JOHNSON married to Rodney DOOLEN. Any info appreciated.Thank you.
Posted: November 2013
Kari Tevis
Query: I was told my 3rd great grandparents were Thomas Raper and Elizabeth Pitts (b. 1802). She was married previously to a Pitts and her maiden name was Matoy. I need to know who her father is. Old Man “Oukuah” Matoy (Moytoy) had a son named James Matoy and I believe one of these men was her father. Her Cherokee name was Mushica or Mushici. She was born in Greenville, SC and stayed in the CCNC area after her marriage to my 3rd great grandfather. Elizabeth was also the cousin to Catherine Katy McDaniels. Elizabeth was full blooded Cherokee. Any help would be appreciated.
Posted: November 2013
Cassandra Dodson McElyea Lawson
Query: I am trying to link to Medders changed from Meadors/Meadows on one side and then Dodson/Cook on the other side…
Posted: November 2013
Sharyn Hughes
Query: Jesse Denten Hughes married to Hattie Mae Rupple Produced Russel Arnold Hughes, sisters Gladiola and Lorena and a missing brother, possibly Robert. Russel had one son, Larry Allan Hughes and 3 daughters. Larry and 2 sisters survive.
Posted: November 2013
Greiga O’Bleness
Query: My Great great great grandmother was named Bricie/Bricey Little. She was the illegitimate child of Irby Holt and a full blood Cherokee from what I can find. She was born in Tennessee in 1804 and married Samuel Lewis. I am trying to find out who her mother was. Irby was convicted of siring a bastard child in a court of law. Any help would be welcome.
Posted: November 2013
Deanna Poole Fowler
Query: I’m looking for Eliza Jane Rice, Broomtown GA about 1848.
Posted: November 2013
Randel Aday
Query: Is there any Cherokee names registered in the following states: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Mississippi, Roy W. Aday, Roy W Aday Jr.
Posted: November 2013
Ann (Howell) Fox
Query: I’m looking for any info on my great grandmother, Alice Faye Borden. I know she lived in Mt. Hope, Alabama and was born mid 1800s. Borden was her second married name. She told me about my Cherokee heritage but I was a kid and didn’t write much down back then, and no one would talk about such things in the 1950s. Thanks!
Posted: November 2013
Joyace Lunsford Cobb
Query: Early Cofield and Rena Hicks Cofield. These are my grandparents, never knew my grandfather he past before we got a chance to meet him. My grandmother told us stories of how her dad would sit in the middle of the floor and tell her what the rooster was saying to him as the rooster under neath the floor where he was sitting. As young children 3 indians dress men came to grand mothers house the one in the front wore large feathered head dress which dragged behind him ans the other two had feathered head-dress much smaller and had large knives hanging by their side, I would love to know who they are see pictures of my ancestors
Posted: November 2013
Audrey Jones
Query: I’m looking for CHARLES EDWARD SMITH from Tennessee. Born between 1934 – 1938. His father may have been a dentist. Mother was Cherokee. CHARLES “CHUCK” enlisted in the USAF and met my mother in 1956 at the Itami AFB in Itami Japan. CHARLES was an Air Marshal for the Air Force and may have been attached to the 15th Air Wing Division.
Posted: November 2013
burnie niles
Query: looking for info on Samuel Leonard last thought to be in north carolina area but also known to have been in alaska.
Posted: November 2013
Nae Perkins
Query: Debbie Bobbit I am sorry but my email link is broken and I can’t email you. I just remembered some things and linked some info I remembered with Info in John Nortons diary. you will want to go look at family tree dna forum and do a search for either U5b2 in the mtdna section or maybe Logan and or John Norton and find the info there about the Logan and cherokee connection to Ollie Nionee’s family/mother and paint clan /Onondaga/ Conestoga/ Susquehonnoc/ Andaste ?Allegewi . this might help you find “the rest of the story” with your relatives.. and if you think you are a direct female paint clan lady tracing to Ollie mom ., can you please do your mtdna for me , I would be so thankfull to know what you cam back as.. thanks !
Posted: November 2013
cynthia tharp
Query: looking to find out if my gr gr gr grandfather Andrew Lucas is listed. Most of what I know is that he lived in ohio.
Posted: November 2013
Shawnté
Query: Grandfather is Thomas (Harry) Harold ODEN. Dec. Huntsville Tennessee. I know there is a VERY large extended family and would love to be in touch with more of you. Initially Harry was married to Lois Bailey from Australia. 3 kids, Deirdre Ella Oden, Lorelei and Ross. (AUSTRALIANS). He went on to divorce Lois and remarry.
Posted: November 2013
billy chrisco
Query: I would like to find out more about my great grandmother, hester slusher. she was married to s.a. copeland, but was married prior to that to bill calahan. all i know is that she was full blooded cherokee from iron county missouri
Posted: November 2013
connie leigh lyons
Query: I was born in 1962 “Elizabethton Tennesse to the Lyons.Sigmans,n Langfelts.I am told that I am three quarters Cherokee but I ,ve never met my family.I was traded for a car in the late 60s..what am I?
Posted: November 2013
Laura Hicks
Query: I am trying to find out if I have any registered ancestors. My grandmothers name was LUCY ANN HINSON.She was married to ROWLAND BENNETT.I believe that her mothers name was MARY ELLEN TROUBLEFIELD married to ALEX HINSON. I think her grandmothers name was MARY JANE LOCKLEAR, married to SAM TROUBLEFIELD. Not sure where they originated from,but my grandmother was born in North Carolina, near the South Carolina line.
Posted: November 2013
Linda
Query: David Carter was a Supreme Court Justice & editor of the Cherokee Advocate in Cherokee Nation West. He presided over the 1st murder trial in Cherokee Nation. His father was Nathaniel Carter (kidnapped as a child at Wallenpaupack after his family was killed in a massacre during French Indian War, raised by the Cherokees, and married a Cherokee woman). David Carter was educated at Brainerd and Cornwall around the time Ridge & Boudinot were there. Carter County, Okla was named after his son (or grandson) and his grandson (Charles David Carter) was one of the first US Representatives from the newly formed state of Oklahoma.
My questions:
1) WHO was David Carter’s mother?
2) Who adopted Nathaniel Carter and raised him in the Cherokee tribe?
How can I find this information?
Posted: November 2013
Molly Davis
Query: My grandmother on my fathers side is Genevieve Marshall, we know her to be cherokee although not how much. Just wondering if anyone is in relation with her.
Posted: November 2013
James Gastineau
Query: While doing family research I came across an entry on Ancestry.com stating the wife of Fountian Jordan (1763-1848) as only Cherokee Indian (1790). I know this is probably only a bunch of hooey, but am interested to know if anyone has any further information about this. Thanks in advance for any help.
Posted: November 2013
Diane Dale
Query: Trying to trace my great grandmother who was full, or part Cherokee. Her name was Sarah Nevada Hightower, 1873-1943. daughter of David Hans Hightower 1833-1884.
Posted: November 2013
Kristina Burns
Query: I am very confused. An uncle of mine has researched my mothers Cherokee side genealogy. I have a Tribal Roll #4705087; Tribal Officer, Larry Two Rivers Brown of the Appalachian American Indians of West Virginia. My Tribal Lineage is CHEROKEE. The address I have for AAIWV is 505 VA AVE., Rainelle, WV 24952 (304)438-8902 aalwv@inetone.net. I cannot locate or get in contact with them. If anyone could help me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you
Posted: November 2013
Sharion McFaul Henley
Query: My g-g-g grandfather was Daniel McFalls, who married (according to legend) a Cherokee Princess named Mary. No other name is found. They moved from N. Carolina to Tennesee, then the family changed their name twice, from McFalls, to McFall, to McFaul, on their way to the area around Chickasha, Oklahoma. The line goes from Daniel, to Allen Hampton McFalls, to Wade Hampton McFall, to Clyde Christopher McFaul, to my father, Donovan McFaul.My father would have been 1/16th Cherokee, and I am 1/32. I love my Cherokee heritage, and embrace to way of life and ideals that the Cherokee still follow.
Posted: November 2013
Jerry Allen
Query: My Great Grandmother Alice Elizabeth Maxwell is listed on the Dawes Roll as Cherokee by blood. My problem is they mispelled her name on the roll as Alcie instead of Alice. my mothers cousin Sarah Ann Bradley had to go in front of the Council to get her Cherokee Nation membership approved. Will I have to do the same thing? Or do you think that they sorted that problem out when they approved Sarah Ann?
Posted: November 2013
Danielle
Query: Any and all info is great. My grandmother was Lenabeth Grace Wetzel. Grandfather’s name is Jerrold Don Harris. Great grandparents Holly Halford Wetzel/ Lula Louise Lane. My grandmother had two sisters- Mary Jean Wetzel and Louwana or Luewana last name unknown as they shared same father but not mother, May have taken her last name. I do know that Louisiana lived in Oklahoma.
Posted: November 2013
chad canter
Query: my family is from kentucky and tennesse i was told im cherokee my whole life ,, there name was lucy fisk ,,elvis fisk,,, or lucy cleventine fisk ,, how do i find out/
Posted: November 2013
Barbara Ishmael
Query: Requesting infor on Mary Ida Shanks Walls Anglen. Daugther of James A Shanks and Rebecca Sheldon Jones Shanks. Mary Ida was born in Texas, James A Shanks in South Carolina and Rebecca Sheldon in Alabama.
Posted: November 2013
rhyan turner
Query: SHOEMAKER, CHURCH, THOMAS, MCGUIRE
Posted: November 2013
debra hayes
Query: reuben ewell helton, tennessee; married nancy burnett. any info helpful
Posted: November 2013
beverly armstrong
Query: martha a.e. LONG. naoma or naomi LONG SKINNER. mary miranda MCFEE
Posted: November 2013
Kelly Elliott
Query: I am looking for my Cherokee h heritage on my fathers side. My maiden surname is WEHUNT. My fathers name was S. A. WEHUNT at birth, later his name was changed to ESSA WEHUNT. His fathers name was ALFRED or ALFORD WEHUNT. HIS MOTHERS name was SARAH (POTTS) WEHUNT, POTTS was her maiden name. ESSA, my father was born in Merrietta Georgia .
Posted: November 2013
Gay Peavey
Query: I am looking to find any information on my great grandmother, who was a full Cherokee. Her name was Cora Lee TUCKER. We know her family walked the Trail of Tears. After that we can find no information. Anything would be of great help. Thank you.
Posted: November 2013
Rhonda ensminger potter
Query: My great grandmother was born in 1889 in west Virginia. Her name is Lula or lulu mae Hendershot. It says her father was Jason Hendershot but lists her as being 10 years old? I have a picture and family says she is a Cherokee IIndian.So the info about the state she was born in is probably wrong. She married Fount W Ensminger who is also my great grandmother. I am looking for documentation or proof to add this info to the family tree. We know she was a good woman and is the mother of my grandfather Thomas Harold Ensminger.
Posted: November 2013
Oleta Colleen Caldwell
Query: Father: Orville Euell Caldwell Mother: Cora Beatrice Starnes. Both born in Arkansas. Any information would be priceless.
Posted: November 2013
Samantha Joines
Query: I am looking for any information I can find on my gg grandfather Frank Justice/Justus. I was always told when I was a child by my father that we were of Cherokee heritage and that a few of his great grandparents were full Cherokee. In search of my family genealogy I wanted to see what I could find. My g-grandmother (Nancy-born in 1888) on my father’s mothers side was said to have strong Indian features but apparently families didn’t speak of these things. It is only an assumption until I can proof otherwise that if she was of Indian decent then it could have come from her father Frank Justice/Justus. He is a mystery. He was married to Rowena Sweeney who (born around 1854) , remarried when Nancy was 3. I cannot find out what happened to Frank let alone who he was. They apparently also had 2 or 3 children older than Nancey and apparently no one knew about, nothing ever talked about that is and that they possible lived somewhere around Southern Illinois in the mid to late 1880’s. Rowena was from Todd County KY. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Posted: November 2013
Robbie Taylor
Query: Looking for Indian information on my great grand parents Lula May Foster and John Foster or Albert James Foster
Posted: November 2013
Janice Emerson
Query: Cherokee from my mom and her mom they were from Alabama would like to know more on this. Her name was Olive Davis Moses, my mom Shirley Eve Moses Moody. Can you help me and where would Olive be from the reservation in Alabama and how do I get involved with them. Please help me thank you. Janice
Posted: November 2013
Joy Rollins
Query: Great Grandfather last name Furlow (married to Azlea Harriet Lannom from Old Hickory, Tennessee) lived on the Historic Trail of Tears across the border of the property The Home of President Andrew Jackson “The Hermitage” my Grandmother died last February she was 95 years old. I believe he would be around that age. The home is there but barely hanging on I would like to claim it to be a historical home and repair it. We do not wish to sell the property.
Posted: November 2013
J J
Query: Great Grandmother was Nancy Minerva Vann or a variation there of, she was from North Carolina married Nathan H Owensby, He was from Crooked Creek NC in 1900 they lived in Buncomb county, I find them in the census but nothing on her family, I do not know the names of any brothers or sisters. I know this is not much but maybe someone knows something I would like to and need to know.
Posted: November 2013
Lisa Mansfield
Query: My grandmother’s maidens name was Adamson and had ancestor’s from North Carolina . I was wondering how to go about finding my Cherokee ancestors with so little info to go on . Is Adamson a surname that is known in the Cherokee nation ? Also I know that Mormon missionaries had contact with Native Americans and my grandmothers ancestors were Mormon . I appreciate any help you can give
Posted: November 2013
Bobbie
Query: I am looking for my 5 x great grandmother Utyoka Toliata born 1776, once married she changed her name to Penelope Diggs. If any one has any information please let me know.She passed in Mississippi in 1865.
Posted: November 2013
Shirley Fryer
Query: My grandmother was Cherokee. All I know is her name was Lillie and she was born apx 1898.I know who she married but I have no other details. She had4 children. My family comes from Greenville S.C.She died a young woman around 1930 or1940’s I have a small photo of her and she really looks indian.
Posted: November 2013
Bob Upton
Query: looking for any ancestors of Jesse Upton born 1795 in Ky and married Mary Polly Hackney–trying to find out who his mother was-His father was Samuel Isaac Upton born in Ireland and came into Ky through New York
Posted: November 2013
Drina
Query: My 3rd grt grandma was named Sally Lee. B. around 1793. In 1813 she m. Aquilla Nail in or near Kingston TN, Roane county. There was a Cherokee village there. Does anyone know the name of it? I am hoping someday some genealogy will surface for my Sally. She was born before rolls and we just can’t really find the solid proof we need. If anyone has any info, please contact me.
Posted: November 2013
Jackie Roers
Query: I recently read in the Pioneer Indian Papers of 1937 that my Great Grand father WILLIAM(BILL) BENGE (date of death 1880) and his father OBIDAIH BENGE were buried at a place called the Old Indian Courthouse on Skin Bayou about nine miles North East of Sallisaw, Oklahoma. in 1937 my great Uncle DAVID WASHINGTON BENGE was interviewed and this was part of the interview, he said at that time the hanging tree was still standing. Does anyone know the location of the Old Indian Court House in what is now Sequoyah County. The person at Seqyouah’s Cabin Museum told me Skin Bayou ran right behind the museum, he also said there were several places where the Cherokee’s held court. He said there was one place near Maple Cemetery.
Posted: November 2013
Amanda Roberts-Denmark
Query: I am tracing my family tree back. I am a indian i am dark and i have indian features. I am searching the names Gilchrest who married a Cheifs daughter, that daughter is my g.g.g. grandmother. Any help would be awesome. Also the name Denmark.
Posted: November 2013
Noel G Ballinger Jr
Query: My father was born in Comerce, Oklahoma in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s. His name is Noel G Ballinger. He said he was of Cherokee orgin though not full blooded. He was an orphan and never talked of his past. All I know for sure is that his mother killed herself.
Posted: November 2013
emerson
Query: I’m seeking for information on my gg grandmother on my mother’s side, her married name was hellen allen basket it is told that she was Cherokee and she was born in Alabama in 1849-1850 and it is told that she was sold to north Carolina as a slave, she died in north Carolina in 1922, on all of the census records she is listed as mulatto, can anyone help me find more information on her
Posted: November 2013
Michelle Wilson
Query: I am looking for a Ann Wilson, was told she was on the Trail of Tears and that she was Black Dutch. It would be on my grandmothers side. Grandmothers name was Pansy Carrier and there is also Vann Huss in the family. Any information would be great.
Posted: November 2013
tammy farless
Query: my grandfather was born in 1913 he told us that he lived his young years on the reservation before moving to Oklahoma has my last name ever came up james dewey farless 1913
Posted: November 2013
Wendy Deaton
Query: My great grandmother married Matt Deaton in Jackson, Kentucky. My great grandmother is full Cherokee Indian. I do not know her name. I do know my great grandfather was the Sheriff of Jackson, Kentucky. Can you give me information on who my great grandmother is? Also, my daughter’s father’s great grandmother is also a Cherokee Indian from clay county Kentucky. In the Daniel Boone National Forrest. His grandfathers name is Davidson. Can you provide any information on her great grandmother as well. If my great grandmother is Cherokee Indian, and her fathers grandmother is Cherokee Indian, then what percentage does that make her Cherokee Indian Blood to be?
Posted: November 2013
Maryian Blackmon Marson
Query: I am trying to find out if my grandfather’s father is listed on the roles. He was a horse furrier and saddle maker.The name is BLACKMON. My grandfather’s name is Clarence Horn BLACKMON , he was born around 1915-1920. He was raised by a woman name ending in Moore in East Texas area.
Posted: November 2013
Leslie Carpio
Query: Searching for family in WELCH surname. They were from Yell Co,AR., but may have originated in Ft.Smith area. Robert M. WELCH son of a Betsy WELCH, Father?WELCH. 1870’s.
Posted: November 2013
Anthony blunk
Query: I am looking for any information on Emma Arizona Hacker. She is my great grand mother and I was told that she was Cherokee.
Posted: November 2013
Stephen
Query: Hello, I am looking into the background of Solomon Gosnell (b. 1850ish) and his wife Mary Bullman Gosnell. They lived in Madison County, NC. Are either of those surnames traditionally Cherokee? Thanks!
Posted: November 2013
Darrell Pierce
Query: looking family history on grandfather lonnie v jones born in sweetwater,TX in1889
Posted: November 2013
Greiga O’Bleness
Query: I am trying to trace Bricie Little/Holt, born 1804 in Tennessee. She married Samuel Lewis. Her father did not marry her Indian mother and he was prosecuted for having an illegitimate child. He was a travelling preacher named Irby Holt. I am trying to find her mother’s family line.
Posted: November 2013
Lloyd Tillman
Query: Hey I was trying to find out some information on how far my family goes back to the Cherokee. My mama said my grandma turner was either half cherokee. Her name was Christine Turner. She said she never heard what her maiden name was.And she said she thought to had been from Princeton, Nc which use to be called Boone Hill years ago.
Posted: November 2013
Charles S. Cypret
Query: The Cypret surname goes back to 1816 in Missouri in Oregon county. Is there any connection to the Cherokee William S. Cypret, 1916 Oregon County, Mo.
Posted: November 2013
