Tonya, In my family, Edmund Kirby married General William B Shepherd's daughter in North Carolina. Our family believed that the General was given two daughters of a chief before the Revolution and they were both married to him in an Indian ceremony during the Indian War. . He took them and the children to Virginia, but went back to North Carolina. James Kirby, wealthy oil and lumber baron, was one of their ? children. Sounds like good blood! Julia, P.S. The Kirbys were also Indian. If anyone is related, Jesse,Frank, Edmund Jr.,Henry, James, John, and two girls, Patsy and Sarah. JK