In a message dated 8/4/2002 1:59:34 PM Central Daylight Time, lindajcox@msn.com writes: > > Here is the descendency on John Brashier Dumas' Brashier Line...it is what I > have gathered. > > Linda in NM > > Hello Linda, I think Dusty is inquiring into your Dumas connection, so I'll tell you what little I can about your Brashears connection as I have found it in Goss' book. In the line you provided, there is a Benjamin Brashears and a Rachel Brashears but they lived a good time before there was any Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek so they wouldn't be on the rolls. However, in Goss' book on "...Choctaw Claimants and their Heirs..." there are citations for Benjamin Brashears and Rachel Brashears. I would think that there's a good chance that they were the grandchildren of your Benjamin Brashears and Rachel Brashears. Or even the great grandchildren of them. There are other Brashears listed as well in Goss' book. You might want to consider contacting OldBuck Press in Conway, Arkansas, and see about getting the book which originally came out in 1889 and has been reprinted by Oldbuck Press, 1025 Watkins St., Conway, Arkansas 72032. It is simply a listing of names of people who claim to be Choctaw and the pages that these claims can be found on in either the Atopka Commission Records or in the US Court Records. I would think that should you ever get any of these records from the US Archives, you will discover the names of others you might not have realized were relatives and the Goss book would be a handy reference for those additional names as well. I don't know if Oldbuck Press has a website but they probably do. John Craven New Orleans