I just wanted to make myself known to the group. I am researching my greatgrandmother, Mary Ann Scott. Mary Ann was born in 1864 in Arkansas and my grandmother told me she was Cherokee.. Sometime prior to 1870 she was "adopted" by a family named Hayes and she took their last name. By 1870 she was living in Blackfork, Scott County, Arkansas with the John Baxter family. In 1896, she and her first husband James Bud Pearce were living in Bower in Indian Territory, in what is now Pittsburgh County. Mary Ann married my greatgrandfather James Newberry in 1901 following the death of James Pearce. She died in 1905 in Bower of complications from measles. I've never had much luck finding early information on Mary Ann as I dont know what her parents names were or what happened to them. I can find her in the 1870, 1880, and 1900 census records. If I can help anybod with their information, please let me know. Genealogy is my first love and I do research several of my own lines. I have met many cousins this way. Although sometimes it might appear that I'm a "lurker", please understand that I'm always working on some line. Time is short. Billie Millsap