This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TS.2ADE/1125.1.1 Message Board Post: Julia, I wish I had some 'good news' for you, but there is no connection between Shumaka and Shoemaker. She was married to James Cole and among her children was a daughter named NaHomTima who married Jean (John) Cravat. Mary Shoemaker could indeed be Cherokee then rather than Choctaw. Indeed Shumaka was actually a member of Chackihuma (various spellings) tribe which was 'incorporated' into the Choctaw tribe. Angelyn