This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BURRIS, ABLES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iBH.2ACIB/925.2.1 Message Board Post: Yes my husband's maternal line of BURRIS is said to be Chickasaw by blood. I feel they may go back to Cherokee as well. I too am still working on this line too for years now. Great Grandpa was: Walter L. BURRIS b.ca.1883 I.T.? He m. Willie May ABLES 5 Mar 1903 Cumberland, Chickasaw Co., I. T. *They had 5 children: John Paul, Rosalie, Calvin, Maxine, and Mable Juanita BURRIS-my husbands grandma. *Looking for more connections from these lines, as they may lead to more clues. We have no idea what Walter's parents names are, or where they were before I.T., nor do we know if he had bros and sisters.