This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xV.2ADE/503.2.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Karrie, Sorry my message was hard to read. I believe that Willie and Floyd and Rosemary were siblings. Floyd apparently married Virginia McKinney who must have been Indian....probably Cherokee. I was born in Clarksville, Arkansas. My Curtis grandmother spent some time in Oklahoma when she was a child because her father was homesteading. He drank from a Cistern and then died from Typhoid at the age of 29. I also heard that Rosemary was sent to an orphanage right after her mother, Florence, died. (I am in touch with several Nichols descendants who tell me these things and send me some documents.) Why would she be sent to Shawnee, Oklahoma, all the way from Newton County, Arkansas? Why, when she still had a father and siblings? Florence and David had no Indian blood as far as I know. I have photographs of Sarah Caroline Nichols and also of another brother, John B. Nichols. No indian blood there. I also have a photograph of Sarah Norris, sister of Florence. No Indian blood there either. Did Rosemary have a different parent? Ask your father if he knows what happened to James Nichols (father of David Crockett Nichols) Was he bushwacked in Galena Missouri at the end of the Civil War? Best, Laura