This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dailey, Heathcoat Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/970 Message Board Post: I'd appreciate any tips on the Choctaw ancestry of my g-g-grandmother, Hulda Caroline Heathcoat, born around 1820 (possibly in Alabama) and died around 1890 in Falls County, Texas. I don't know whether her Choctaw connection is through her father (Heathcoat) or mother (Dailey). She was in Caddo Parish, Louisiana in 1836. Her husbands were Charles Smitley(Smedley), George Cratch and John Knox. The family story is that she qualified for land given away in Oklahoma but would not talk to the agent who located her in Texas and tried to record her Choctaw ancestry.