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Date: Wednesday, 25 March, 1998 16:31:36
From: cherokee
To: Cato-L
Subject: Fw: Cherokee Indians
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> Date: Wednesday, 25 March, 1998 16:26:37
> From: cherokee nation
> To: Joan Raney
> Cc: Cato
> Subject: Re: Cherokee Indians
>
> I am not sure where Needham fits in I am not at my office to check my
files.
> Will he fit in with Grandison? Grandisons family said he was Cherokee
and
> is on the
> Northern Cherokee rolls. Iam almost thinking Needham is part of that
> family but I am
> not sure.
>
> There are many Jones in the Miller roll book and of course Bird is a
very
> prominent Cherokee
> name you can find it in the Miller and Dawes roll books and many other
> rolls. Then of course
> the Chiefs name of the Western Tribe in Ok is Joe Bird.
>
> If you are interested in proving it there are sometimes many ways of
doing
> that. Although it is much
> harder than researching the white man. Sometimes you can never find
it.
> If you were ever told that
> through your family, you more than likely are. It just was not cool to
be
> Cherokee in the past. So they
> would not of told it otherwise.
> Pitter,
> mail lto:cherokee@igateway.net
>
http://bounce.to/cherokee
>
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> > I'm descended from Needham but I thought he was a white guy! Maybe
> > the Census is a little messed up? On the other hand, it might
> > explain my curly hair :-)
> >
> > Anyhow, I might be descended from Cherokees but I can't prove it one
> > way or the other. I'm descended from a Wiley T. Jones of
> > Chesterfield County, SC, and family tradition says his wife Sarah was
> > a Cherokee Indian. His daughter Polly married William Catoe,
> > grandson of Needham. I can't prove the Cherokee heritage but my
> > great-grandmother Elizabeth Catoe Bird, one of Polly's daughters,
> > looks just like an Indian.
> >
> > Joan Raney
> > Charlotte, NC
> > raneyj(a)rex.queens.edu
> >
>
>