Hi Kathie, I also have GRANT & TAYLOR & FOX & MARTIN in my family. I wonder if we are connected ? I've been told recently that I may have 3 or 4 different Cherokee lines and also a Wyandotte & Osage line. I've heard the name Ludovic GRANT, but I'm not sure where he fits into the family. On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Forbes, Kathie <[email protected]>wrote: > I am descended from Nancy Ward down through great grand-daughter Susannah > Fox Taylor who married a white man, Samuel Parks. Parks family lived in > eastern Tennessee, drove wagons west over the Trail of Tears, then > emigrated to Indian Territory in the years after the Trail. Also descended > from trader Ludovic Grant and his [unknown name] Cherokee wife, > grand-daughter Susannah Emory, mother of Judge John Martin, Nannie Martin, > and Rachel Martin. Nannie Martin married a white man, Jeter Lynch, their > daughter Martha (Patsy) married James Allen Thompson, also white. Four > Thompson siblings married Cherokee and emigrated to Indian Territory at the > time of the Trail of Tears. Some went on their own, some went with the > groups. Happy to share what information I have, although not much > physical documentation prior to Susannah Taylor and Nannie Martin. > > Kathie Parks Forbes > > ________________________________________ > =====*NOTICE THIS*===== > Cherokee genealogy; topic specific certain conversation is allowed to do > genealogy; and sort fact from (fiction). > > Rude people will be moderated asap! > List archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene > please take non genealogy to [email protected] > Dual admin. > Dan and Joyce > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "In GOD we trust" "one nation Under GOD, Indivisible, with Liberty & Justice for all"

It would be very interesting to see what she used for the resource for this David. One of the initial holding points for the Great Removal was at Calhoun and Charleston at the Agency. So that's probably why they came here. Ludovic Grant had married into the Matoy/Moytoy family with most people saying her names was Eu gui ho ti with the English moniker of Elizabeth. Check for more at www.rootsweb.com/~tnpolk2 Look behind 'records' and 'biographies of people associated with the Cherokee'. You'll also want to do a google for his journal. Ludovic was a well renowned and reputable emissary between the Cherokee and the South Carolina / British leaders....having associated with Governor's Moore, Johnson and to a degree, Lyttleton. He was given the task of getting Christian Priber, the French Spy, out of the Overhills. David and Andrew Fox Taylor are among those receiving 1817 Reservations in southeast Tennessee. David Taylors was on the Little Tennessee River very near Burton's Mill in northern Monroe Co., TN....downriver from John Ross'. He soon sold out to go south below the Indian Boundary into what is now Bradley Co. The Taylor family donated land to the new county of Bradley that the county seat, Cleveland, now stands on. see www.tngenweb.org/bradley The Martin's are fairly well documented via western Supreme Court Justice John C. Martin. He was from southwestern North Carolina, around Nottley to move into southeast Tennessee where he had land in McMinn and Bradley Co. There is another line of Martins also. Joyce Gaston Reece