This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cloud.Cox,Ball Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YNJ.2ACIB/639.636.640.1 Message Board Post: Janet: Recently researching the Cherokee ancestry of John Stinnett through his BALL grandparents (Osborne and Ball and Martha Thomason) .We have at "Tennessee Cousins" a yahoo group. Anyway in the copies of the Cherokee application from John Stinnett there was a letter from a Mrs Francis Gibson in Mississippi .Her maiden name was CLOUD ;her father was Frank Cloud son of Joe Cloud and Nancy COX both from Tennessee.Francis's claim is through her gratgrandmother (mother to Nancy Cox). The application was rejected as was John Stinnett's In the front page of the NARA page on line there is the searchable index to the applications abt. 1907 The connection between the Cox (then of course Nncy Cox's father was probvably white (the application mentions nancy's mother only) and our Osborne Ball (born NC died Cocke County TN)is is just now arrived through the application of Francis Gibson so I am sure the Tennessee Cousins will be searching happily . let me know what you think ;I hope all this helps Raymond Fred Dennis