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Surnames: Chambers, Kyle, Foreman, Bigby, Taylor
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Ken: Thank you so much for saying that. Those were terrible times, weren't they? Both
sides were so ignorant and awful to each other. We have to accept that they each condoned
atrocities to each other for all of the reasons thrashed about for the past 300 years.
I'm glad I am living now instead of then, despite the fact that there is still some
descrimination and unjustices that occur, we have at least made some headway. I am
descended from a Scotch/Irish trader of the Revolutionary period who had two full blooded
Cherokee wives, and whose mixed blood descendants made history in every way. Some hid in
the hills during the removal (now the Eastern Cherokee Nation); others acted as
interpreters while their families were forced along on the terrible Trail of Tears. How
we deal with it nearly 200 years later is up to us. It is truly history at this point -
nothing we can change. Our job is to make our history better for the next generations, so
there is not so much heartache !
for them to inherit.. In another vein, my other side of Scotch/Irish went to Kentucky
after the revolution, but left there and moved to another frontier to start over because
they believed so strongly that one human being did not have the right to enslave another.
They were pioneer settlers of Cedarville and Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, and one of my
related family married Rebecca Galloway - the woman Tecumseh wanted to marry. Now for
that you can be mad at me, because Tecumseh was one awesome dude, and it would have been
far more exciting to have had him as a family member. History says he was "often seen
in Xenia, was a man of intellect, a great orator, and delivered many addresses to the
Indians scattered from Ohio to Florida, He exerted a wide influence among the tribes
wherever he went.
He was of a social nature, and a frequent and welcome visitor at the Galloway home, and
even proposed to their beautiful daughter, Rebecca", (but they couldn't reconcile
their difference in lifestyles!). Nevertheless, here we are still talking about him nearly
200 years later, so he definitely left his mark...I can tell you are proud to be a Shawnee
- you have a right to be..