joyce i am related to many of those folks who migrated from wayne co ky, they went to dade co ga as at the time was cherokee territory.. some setteled there & some were in DeKalb co al. which is near by, this area is around sand mountain & look out mt. in the valley, some were in tn, as this was near the state line as it shows now.my gggreat grandmother is elizabeth blevins daughter of jonathan blevins son of daniel blevins,we have the line on them,sarah steel was her daughter,she married abraham tinker from unicoi tn. elizabeth was married to christian steel in wayne co ky & when he died she married george jacob troxell. they had a daughter lousia & her decendents are now in dade co ga.this is documented as both men were in the war,,christian was in war of 1812,jake was in rev war & is on record also elizanbeth as his wife. i never heard about daniel being married to cornblossom but jacob troxel was & there were children. june bork has much of this is her books.a lot on federal records. earleene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Gaston Reece" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] heritage > Excellent posting Susan! > > You know the names of those responsible for this entire conglomeration of > misinformation concerning Troxell/Cornblossom. I debunked that one years > ago. There were/are three different myths, all originating in > southeastern > Kentucky and all seem to have some basis in the Kenneth Tankersley > research > (which plainly states there is no documentation for what he wrote, > claiming > his best to be 'oral history'). One myth is this one, the second is the > Aaron Brock/Red Bird myth and the third is the Sizemore. I get the > Sizemore > / Brock since many old researchers believed Jesse Brock, Aaron's son, to > have married a Sizemore. The Troxell myth spins off that somehow. Just > last week I posted, on the Brock surname list, several documents that > disproved that a Cherokee Chief was Aaron Brock aka Red Bird. (There is a > facebook list entitled "Aaron Brock aka Chief Red Bird". When I posted on > it that it wasn't documented and asked another poster to document his > statements I was called 'rude' by several of the list members and banned > from the list....of course the list creator is one of those people who > apparently think the Cherokee were all mystical beings.) > > The Troxell believers claim that Doublehead was the grandfather of this > Cornblossom (a myth that also exists among the Shawnee). That Christian > Priber was the father by Doublehead's dtr. Christian Priber stayed among > the Cherokee less than 3 years before he was imprisioned by the British > and > died in a Georgia jail. He was know as "The French Spy". He was, to put > it > bluntly, a nutcase. He could not have possibly fathered a child at the > right age since the conception would have been after his death. Ludovic > Grant's journal reveals much about this as does the appalachian.summit web > site. > > Now, SUSAN, as for Wayne County, KY. Maybe you can explain to me a > question > I've had floating in my mind for years. Researching as much as I do here > in > McMinn Co., TN I have seen the Old Nathan Lawson family, the > Wattenbarger's, > the Buttram's and 3 or 4 more families here in 1820's (possibly earlier) > McMinn and all from Wayne Co. Do you think that perhaps there was a 'mass > migration' from Wayne south into McMinn when the county opened for > settlement? Some of these same Lawson's seem to be on the south side of > the > Hiwassee prior to Removal (which was a no - no)....meaning they were > living > on Cherokee land. The Buttram's and Wattenbarger's settled in the west > part > of the county to form the methodist churches there. I know we had a lot > of > area settlers move into McMinn and Monroe when the counties were formed > but > I've never figured out why Wayne Co., KY. The only thing I can think of > is > if the land was ceeded from the Cherokee in the 1805 (possibly 1795) > Treaty > and they were doing like so many other families and going on to Indian > Territory. > > > Joyce Gaston Reece > > =====*NOTICE THIS*===== > this is a generic list; and not topic specific because certain chatting is > required 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 > 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