Thanks Rick, Happy Easter to you. Based on my great-grandmother, I am at least 1/16 and possibly more since her father may have been 1/2 Cherokee. All I really know about him is that he moved to Arkansas and became a deputy sheriff and was killed by an outlaw. The thing I find most interesting about my McKinney ancestor's scalping is how the story became so convoluted as it was told and retold. My Tennessee family seems to believe it happened there, when it was actually in what is now South Carolina sixty years before some of her descendants moved to Tennessee. I also found it interesting that we have German ancestry. I didn't know until the other day when I read a little booklet one of my far, far distant relatives put out that we also have Dutch ancestry since Barbara's husband William's mother was from the Netherlands.
Sam,
That is a very interesting story. I am 1% Choctaw, Cherokee or Chickasaw. Through my maternal ancestry. Happy Easter,
Rick Lentz
Thanks Rick, Happy Easter to you. Based on my great-grandmother, I am at least 1/16 and possibly more since her father may have been 1/2 Cherokee. All I really know about him is that he moved to Arkansas and became a deputy sheriff and was killed by an outlaw. The thing I find most interesting about my McKinney ancestor's scalping is how the story became so convoluted as it was told and retold. My Tennessee family seems to believe it happened there, when it was actually in what is now South Carolina sixty years before some of her descendants moved to Tennessee. I also found it interesting that we have German ancestry. I didn't know until the other day when I read a little booklet one of my far, far distant relatives put out that we also have Dutch ancestry since Barbara's husband William's mother was from the Netherlands.