Just pondering about Mary Keys birthplace and why no one seems to know for certain...it is pre-supposed Ireland or N.C. (since she lived in N.C., this would be a good possibility) Ireland is always listed with a ? when mentioning her birthplace. (although I do find the surname Keys in Scotland.) Again, I am just theorizing, not to ruffle any feathers, but to be open to the possibility of Mary Keys being Cherokee.(here we go again, I hear some saying...: ) There were then and still are Cherokee with that surname. Very often the Scots (Scots-Irish) immigrants took native wives after arriving to this continent. I talked further with my father at more length and he says that both our Boggs line and Witt line (his mother's maiden name) have Cherokee blood. North Carolina was Cherokee land at that time. Edward Again, I left for awhile due to my chronic fatigue...if case anyone wants to know why I pop in and out once in a while.