I'm researching the Beavers family, too. My branch is centered in the northeastern part of Oklahoma and the northwestern part of Arkansas. My great-great-great-grandfather was John Paul Beavers. I believe he was on the Old Settler Rolls. I've been told that he was one of those given a bag of flour, some gunpowder and a musket and told to go west. Unfortunately, I do not have any dates on him. His son (the only child that I know of) was George Paul Beavers. George married Mary Ellen Jordan in McDonald County, Missouri, on November 1, 1883. I know that for a time they lived where the town of Bella Vista, Arkansas, is now. George owned all the land in that area and sold it for $100 except for a small family cemetery where a young daughter was supposedly buried. George and Mary moved to Adair County, Oklahoma, near Watts and Westville. They had ten living children: Haywood, Ervin, Ollie, Jack, Frank and Francis (twins), James, Maude, Pearl, and Ethel. George was a circuit minister. My great-grandfather (James) used to talk about how his father would come in from the fields, clean up, then mount up on his horse to travel up to thirty miles to preach. Unfortunately, that was about all James ever said about his dad. He was pretty close-mouthed about his family. However, I have heard that both George and Ellen died when James was young. I believe James was mostly raised by his elder siblings. James Augustus Beavers was born in August 1902 in Adair County, Oklahoma. He married Reba Elva Paschal, and they had eight children: Betty, Bobby Gene, June and Jim (another set of twins), Bill, Geraldine, Shirley, and Paulette. The family moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where that branch of the family is still centered today. A mystery surrounds James' first marriage. He was married once before he wed Reba. No children were born to that marriage, or at least none survived. James would not mention his first wife, and so none of us even know her name. I've heard that she left him and went home to live with her family. My grandfather was Bobby Gene. He was born in 1932 and was the second child. Bobby moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in his teens, married, and had two children. The Beavers family is of Cherokee descent. I would like to prove relationship to someone on the rolls. Although I am now too old to be on the rolls myself, I have a younger brother and several cousins that could benefit from being on them. I would like to find any distant cousins and trade notes. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Lynna Beavers Nix