In a message dated 7/28/2002 1:20:38 PM Central Daylight Time, slane-hoffield@prodigy.net writes: > ? How did Ifull-blood Choctaws ever get the name "Hattensty", which I have > been told is German, but it could be an interpretation of a Native American > name. > > Hello Shellie, I think they got the name Hattensty the same way others got the name LeFleur and Favre and Brashear and so forth. They either married non-Indians and gave birth to descendents who carried non-Indian surnames or during the times before the War Between the States or in its immediate aftermath they could have been slaves and took the last name of their owners and former owners as did many black who were slaves. John Craven New Orleans