Sandra wrote: <snip> _______________ HI Earl and List, we never have been able to link Pleas to the 1850 census in Tennesse, not yet anyway. I've kept it on file. Our Pleas' are just really a hart nut to crack. I tend to side with your opinion about the Indian Heritage, Earl, however the family has so many stories (hearsake I believe) that I am just pursuing every angle. Here is the story about Chief Charlie Monta Zoma Cagle.......for whatever it is worth: ____________________ Sandra & List, Your family story is interesting, and iam sure contains fact & fiction. He may well have been a chief of a small break away tribe. You can see how he may have fallen in love with a Cherokee woman. With her long black hair, high cheek bones, and dark complexion. Any off spring to this couple would be one half Cherokee & one half Anglo Saxon. Hence how the hurtful term half breed came about. Mabey this was why they rode through town rasing cain:) Then the childrens children would be 1/4 Cherokee blood. By the time it gets to our generation there isn't much left. Earl