Research has been done by reputable researchers. I don't know about the reputable part but I was one of those who researched Talahina. She was the daughter of Jennie Due and John Rogers, Jr. Jennie was the daughter of Elizabeth Emory/Due/Rogers who had had a relationship with John Rogers, Sr. after a relationship with Robert Due/Dew/Dewes/Dewitt....supposedly of Dewitt's Corner in South Carolina near the old lower towns. Elizabeth Emory was the daughter of William Emory and Mary Grant (Mary was the dtr of Ludovic Grant and Eugihooti). I don't think there was ever any ceremony between Sam Houston and Talahina....I've never seen it documented anywhere, anyway. The had a relationship when he came to live with John Jolly at Tellico, then later at Hiwassee Island, then in ARkansas. There was a son from the relationship that passed away early in life. John Jolly later lived on Hiwassee Island which lay at the mouth of the Hiwassee where it flows into the Tennessee River. It is not all underwater today but much of it is and it is a wildlife sanctuary preserved by TVA. I've not researched this enough to say exactly but there appears to be a kinship between the Houston family and the Jolly family of North Carolina which would mean a kinship between John Jolly and Sam Houston. It has not been proven, to my knowledge, that John Jolly nor Tahlonteeskee were the children of Elizabeth Emory/Due/Rogers or the brothers of Jennie Due. There is even one very knowledgeable researcher who sticks needles in the balloon by saying there is a good possibility that Tahlonteeskee was the son of John Stuart of Susannah Emory....(dtr of Robert Emory...bro to William above) Most who say this have researched no futher than Dr. Starr's History of the Cherokee Indians. If one looks at the time frames for births Tahlonteeskee could certainly have been John Stuart's son....later called Bushyhead. Most researcher give no more than a half-brother relationship between Tahlonteeskee and Jolly and we don't know if it was because they had the same mother or same father. The biographies of some of the people mentioned here are located at www.rootsweb.com/~tnpolk2 behind RECORDS to "C" Joyce Gaston Reece