Sheila Watson posted several obits this weekend for the Burden family in
Grant Co. While this isn't my family, they are part of the group of
families with whom my Jeffries traveled . My gg-grandmother, Minnie
B.Jeffries, was last heard of 1903 in Gas City, married to a James
Tomlan or Tomlinson. If someone has cemetery records for the IOOF
cemetery mentioned in the obits (sorry, it doesn't specify which one and
I see there are two in the county)can you please take a look for Minnie
Jeffries/Tomlan, born about 1874?
The Jeffries and Burden families were not black, but were descendants of
the Saponi tribe from Virginia and North Carolina. You can see a bit
more about them and their struggle to be identified as native americans
on my Jeffries webpages.
http://users.nni.com/dehoff/jeffriesfam.html
Thank you in advance for helping solve a family mystery.
Annette DeHoff
netandmike(a)nni.com