John Jacob Richards, I’m a descendant of Conrad Richards 1747. I’ve taken ancestry DNA and the Y-111 test. Looking for descendants of Arnold Paul, William, Benjamin, Franklin, George Washington, Isaac, or Matthew that has taken the above test to see if any Native American Indian has shown up. Conrad Richards was to have married an
Archives for September 2016
Cherokee Genealogy Queries Posted September 2016
Info on Susie Maxine Johnson
Susie Maxine Johnson was born in Tennessee in 1857. Parents names are unknown. Susie married William Alonzo Puckett who was born 1864 in Murray, Tennessee. They had 4 children: Thomas, Robert, Annie and Maude. He died 1949 in Obion, Tennessee. I know that Susie Maxine Johnson was Cherokee, but we don’t know any other information
Nervy Roark
Nervey Roark the mother of my great great grandfather Findley Roark lived with him and his wife Polly Smith Roark in Clay County Kentucky in 1830s. I believe she may have have been Cherokee as I was told by family that my great great grandmother Polly Smith Roark was Cherokee but it appears she was
Cherokee Family Research
I am doing research for my husband who is of maternal NC Cherokee heritage and trying to get what he needs together for Tribe enrollment. Here is his genealogy. Alfred Almond b. 4/1856 in Cherokee, NC. Alfred married Sarah E. Pressley (Cherokee Heritage) b. 2/1857 in Monroe, TN. Alfred and Sarah’s children are: Albert C.
Searching Sarah/Sally King
I am searching for information on my great grandfather’s mother, Sarah or Sally King. She is by family tradition a full-blooded Cherokee. She married John King who’s birthplace was said to be North Carolina. Sally was born in Georgia. Her son, my great grandfather, was Jasper King born 1845 in Georgia. The area they originated
Richardson Indians
Do the Richardsons have any American Indians as Blood relatives?
William Alexander Heffington
New theory about William Alexander Heffington was that he was given to a Caucasion family to raise around 1830. Records indicate he was born in Alabama (possibly Lawrence County,Tennessee but doubtful) in 1824 but birth records cannot be found. He was married in Lauderdale County, Alabama in 1845, lived in Iuka, Mississippi in 1846. Would
Trying to find family
I’ve always been told that my mother is half cherokee and I’ve been trying to find that half of her family. Her father’s name was James Lark born:10/1/1932 died: 6/1979 in Kingsport, TN. His father was Jessie Lark Born: 05/4/1917 and his mother was Vinus Fields born 2/10/1910 my family appears to of come out
Melinda (Helinda?) Berry Blackberry
My Great, Great, Great Grandmother was Melinda Berry Blackberry who married John Nicholson in the early 1800’s somewhere in either TN/VA/NC. Myfamily has a long geneology documentation taking the Layman’s back into theVirginia are of mid-1700. They moved to the Sevier County TN area in thelate 1700’s then eventally to Missouri. In that documentation it
Bondurant Cloud families
We are trying to trace Richard Bondurant also Elizabeth and her brother Isom Cloud. One on the children’s names was Soondr Rtah Nayela Powantonoma after a relative. This person went by the English name Martha. We know that Richard was French and was at a town named Manakin in Virginia. He later settled at the