Dear Sue, My GR GR GR Grandmother was Malinda Chambers, born to Mary Blankenship and James Chambers, who came into Clark County, Indiana by 1809 when they married. This is very early and eliminates them from a connection with the Blankenships who were involved in that incident at Dickenson's Store in 1860. Isham's family by Sarah Wilkinson went to Tenn about the same time my Blankenship and Chambers families turned up in Kentucky. I speculate that Isham took his white family to Tenn and the Cherokee mother of his half-breed children went to Indiana, but there is no proof. Those early census records only give the approximate age and sex of the family, along with the name of the head of household. There is an older woman in the household of James and Mary Blankenship Chambers, and she might have been the grandmother. I did see the reference to Catherine Chambers who married Alexander Ross. This is very interesting. They were both born about 1680 and this is promising. It shows there might be some connection between the two families very early on. I have good information on the Chambers line, but just like the Blankenships -- there is no record of marriages or wives. It was strictly a man's world. The key to connecting to the main tree would be to find who Mary Blankenship's father is. He was probably born around 1770. I think she must have been 15 years old when she married. It's just a guess, but her first daughter was married at 15, so it isn't unheard of. Does anybody know if there were removal records when the early Cherokee families left North Carolina in the early 1800s? I have never heard of any, and have no idea where to look for them. Pat T..