DONNA, SORRY I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE INFO. MY THOMAS WAS B. 1805 IN NC.
MY OWN THEORY IS THAT WHITE MEN SETTLED IN THE CAROLINAS, M. NATIVE
WOMEN. IF YOU LOOK ON CENSUS AND FIND ADULTS AND FEMALE CHILDREN ARE
ILLITERATE WHILE BOYS WENT TO SCHOOL, IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY WERE
UNSCHOOLED OR SPOKE NO ENGLISH. NC WAS NOTORIUS ABOUT NO SCHOOLS.
BACK TO THE CENSUS, THE U.S. HAD TO HAVE SOME WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF
NATIVES AND PUT THEM IN "SUBBURBS" OR MILITARY DIST. WHEN THE REMOVAL
STARTED ABOUT 1838, THE WHITE MEN COULD STAY WITH THEIR FAMILIES OR
ABANDON THEM. NATIVE WOMEN USUALLY KEPT THEIR MAIDEN NAMES AND BURIED
AS SUCH. MY GR-GR-GRNDMO'S MARKER SAYS "ANNIE BREWER" AND B. NEXT TO
HUSB., RANEY CHASTAIN. HIS FAMILY WERE HUGUENOTS THAT CAME IN 1731 SO
THERE'S GENS. BEFORE THE INDIAN REMOVAL AS IN THE CARTWRIGHTS IN ABT.
1685. IT DAWNED ON ME WHEN I SAW AN 1850 CENSUS FOR WHITE CO., TN. I
THINK 1890 WAS FIRST CENSUS THAT NATIVES WERE COUNTED AS "PEOPLE."
BESIDES THE RED/AUBURN HAIR, LOOK FOR SURNAME "PEEBLES." NOT A TYPO,
THAT WAS USED AS FIRST NAME. THINK IT WAS ON ANCEST. COM THAT I TRACED
MATTHEW CARTW. WAY BACK AND ONE OF HIS FEMALE ANCES. m. A PEEBLES AND
GR-GRFA HENRY BROWN CARTW. NAMED A DTR, PEEBLES. AS WE ARE
EPISCOPALIANS, IT SURPRISED ME TO FIND THE AUTHOR OF OUR "BOOK OF COMMON
PRAYER" LISTED. THE TX CARTW. WERE MOSTLY METHODISTS AFTER THEIR QUAKER
TIMES. I'M ASTONISHED THAT THE LAST OF INDIAN RAIDS WERE ABOUT 25 YRS OR
LESS BY THE TIME MY FATHER WAS B. 1900.BYE NOW.