I have a conflict between two names for the maiden name of Charity Emmalene Hamman. She was born abt 1829 in the TN area close to the AL border OR in the Cherokee portion of AL (DeKalb, Cherokee, St. Clair etc..). She registered for recognition of her Cherokee citizenship in the Dawes applications of 1896 so that area is probable. She married into a family of German extraction in 1855 (location unknown), her husband was John Van Hamman, the son of William Cook Hamman both of which lived in DeKalb Co and Jackson Co. AL before 1850. A family Bible exists in Texas that lists her maiden name as McCandles but most Hamman/Hammon researchers have her name listed as Browder. I'd like to find out why and be certain of the truth. Ron McCandless