Just starting to research maternal side of family. Looking for Cherokee connection also. They lived in Texas from (I think) 1878 to 1907 when they moved to Oklahoma. Albert died in Oklahoma. May have changed name from Bird. Their kids: Lewis E. Byrd b. 16 June 1877 Tenn. married Delia Catherine Meyers b. Oct. 10 1878, OK Territory (Especially interested in him and her.) Oscar (maybe Waldo) b. 1878 Flora b. 1879? m. Willis Hawkins Stella m. Rex Carr Emma Belle m Eli Perry, 2nd was Frederick Walter Stowers Roscoe no info yet died in 1958