Charlotte Adams Hood published a book "Jackson's White Plumes" which detailed the help that the Indians gave him during the Creek Indian War. It outlines Day Croquet's scouting trip through Blunt Co. It also relates his meetings with a Richard Ratliff family near present day Gadsden just east of the Blount Co. line. Richard had married an Indian lady and had a large mixed family that ran a trading post. Richard had been there since shortly after the Revolution. Two of his sons fought with Jackson at Horseshoe Bend. This family was later shipped west on "The Trail of Tears." My Ratliff family arrived in Blount Co. about 1817. I'm still trying to find out how we may have been related to Richard. Charlottes book mentions a number of families living in the area at that time (1813-1814).