My great grandmother was Ella Gorham and grew up on a Indian Reservation and believe she may be from DeKalb, Tennessee. There was some discussion it may have been Texas. She was born in 1870 and died in 1944. She was buried in Sowers Cemetery in Irving, Texas. Her brothers were Johnny and Dave Gorham.
Archives for December 2016
Cherokee Genealogy Queries Posted December 2016
Vester (Vesta) Mae Watkins Lard
I am trying to find information on my paternal grandmother Vester Mae Watkins. I have found a grave for her and my grandfather, Julius Henry Lard, who are both buried in North Carolina Cemetery in Alabama, but despite my efforts I cannot find anything else on Vester. On many of her children’s obituaries she is
Searching for Nancy No Surname
I’m searching for a Cherokee ancestor of mine, but I don’t have a lot of information. Her first name was Nancy, but I only know her married last name as Boren, spouse of James R. Boren. She was born sometime around 1770 in Virginia, but submitted a Request to Join Colony (to Texas), listing herself
Family Search
Trying to find the connection between Swift Running Dear (Sarah Black Fox- Baucom) and Enoli Black Fox.
Pearl Walker
My grandmother is Pearl Walker, listed on the U.S. American Citizens and Freedman of the Five Civilized Tribes. #782 Walkers of Marion County TN, enumerated on card #296. She was 8 years old 1901. How much Cherokee blood did she have?
Bertha Mae Brackett
Bertha Mae Brackett is my paternal grandmother. She married Nolan Temple Cowan. She was born in August of 1911. She was Cherokee but we can’t find her parents
McGee Surname
McGee
Brown genealogy
Leroy Worley Brown and his daughter Hannah Brown. They lived in Kentucky.