Has anyone found any Cherokee connection for Tabitha Ann Elizabeth Hooper? She married Doc Borden — both are said to be of Cherokee descent (Doc 1/2 & Tabitha 3/4).
Possibly via the Hooper/England line? They were second cousins via the Hoopers/Englands.
Both the Englands and Hoopers came to Alabama via North Carolina.
These lines trace back to Euro-American lineages, that came into the early Colonies. Ancestors pushed into the Carolinas, eventually moving into and through ceded Cherokee lands, and then into Alabama as homesteaders (in ceded Chickasaw lands). There are no Native lines on any progenitor branches. I’m not sure why there is a notion they were of Cherokee ancestry at all, let alone high blood quantum. I’m actually befuddled by this description on a number of online trees. But, wherever there is supposed computation of Native blood, it is uniformly incorrect.
Tabitha’s parents can be found here (on a well-traced Findagrave page):
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50746656/william_rufus-hooper