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Surnames: Canaday
Classification: Query
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Actually the proof lies with the Seminole Nation Council. My great-great-grandfather,
Westberry Raulerson married the daughter of John Milledge Canaday and Missouri Powell.
Missouri, along with her brother(Billy) and sister(Santee) and mother (Polly) lived in the
Moniac and St. George area and married into the local community except for Billy who later
became known by the War Chief name of Osceola. People seem to forget that only his
grandmother (Red Stick) was full Tallahassee Creek Indian. Her relationship to Osceola
was the only thing keeping raiding parties from killing her immediate family during the
Seminole Wars. It didn't keep her from being partially scalped by some renegades that
were not happy with the war chief. The Historical Society of Baker County placed the
monuments in the Canaday Cemetary after carefully documented research as well as blood
test of decendants of this line.
Hope this helps. The Baker County Historical Society is open all Saturdays is a font of
information for anyone willing to physically go and do the actual research. The tombstones
are not actually new(relative, of course) and did replace old wooden markers that were
there in the 1920's. They were there when my father was a boy and he is 90.