FWD -----Original Message----- From: Mic Barnette <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 11:45 PM Subject: Re: To Susan and Mic and other BARNETTs Re: CHEROKEE/CHOCTAW Barnettrelatives >Bellinda/ (Spanky): > > >Why not share with the list members your Barnett lineage and how you prove >they were Native Americans. >Does the Indian actually come down in the Barnett line, or, do the Barnetts >marry into the Indians? >This might help others researching Native American lines. > >I know of Timothy Barnard and his Creek family who were later called >Barnett. > >I have heard of Barnett Cherokees, too, but I am not aware of them being >Cherokee in GA/AL. > >You have Choctaw. Are you saying your Barnetts are Choctaw? > >MIC > > >Mic Barnette's Writes a Weekly Genealogy Column In >The Houston Chronicle. Read it on the Web At Barnette's >Family Tree Book Company >http://barnettesbooks.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Spanky <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 7:36 PM >Subject: Re: To Susan and Mic and other BARNETTs Re: CHEROKEE/CHOCTAW >Barnettrelatives > > >>The reply that was posted about Jackson Barnett lastnight is my line of >>Barnett's, they were Creek. By the way I was very excited to see it >posted. >>Muriel >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 7:20 PM >>Subject: To Susan and Mic and other BARNETTs Re: CHEROKEE/CHOCTAW >>Barnettrelatives >> >> >>> Hi, Susan and Mic and others, >>> >>> There are many, many of us of all different surnames from Alabama, >>Georgia, >>> and Missisippi, and other locations, that are descended from CHEROKEE and >>> CHOCTAW bloodlines that were not removed from these states between 1830 >>and >>> 1840. >>> >>> Some of these families were married into 'white' families.....many of >>those >>> were even wealthy, prominent....even aristocratic bloodlines.....and were >>> assimilated into the 'white' culture.....some just 'went underground.' >>> >>> There were many CHEROKEE, CHOCTAW and other Native American Indian people >>who >>> just simply refused to leave their home territory just as there were so >>very >>> many that were forced to leave their homes......and many who were coerced >>to >>> leave and truly believed that they were going to a better life. >>> >>> It is a most difficult proposition for many of us who are descended from >>> these Native American Indian bloodlines, especially in the CHEROKEE and >>> CHOCTAW, to find out much information at all about our ancestors because >>of >>> the very fact that they did not go on the 'TRAIL OF TEARS.' Had they >gone >>on >>> the trail and relocated to Oklahoma or died on the 'TRAIL OF TEARS' there >>> would be more traceable evidence of these families. They would be >>accounted >>> for on the DAWES ROLLS and other lists, as well. >>> >>> Some of them, fortunately, were documented by circumstances of history >and >>> family and information on them survived usually just by being passed down >>in >>> the families because it was very dangerous to have stayed behind during >>the >>> removal......so much secrecy was important to many of them....but, >>> unfortunately, there are so many that are simply 'missing in action.' >>> >>> In addition to that situation, there is the complicating factor of the >>> terrible damage that the CIVIL WAR did to destroy and/or 'misplace' >>valuable >>> and abundant files/documents. At any rate, there are a lot of BARNETT, >>> MYRICK, LOTT, LIGHTFOOT, CORBIN, LEWIS, COLEMAN, COPELAND, PARKER, >PIERCE, >>> DICKSON, and numerous other surnames just in my ancestry alone that are >>> descended from CHEROKEE, CHOCTAW and other NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS that >>never >>> were removed to Oklahoma including some of my ancestral grandparents. >>> >>> Good luck with your searching. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> Bellinda Myrick Barnett >>> >> >> >