This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IMJ.2ACEB/2075.1.1.1 Message Board Post: THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY. YES, CHEROKEE INDIAN IS ALL THROUGH OUR PAST ANCESTRY, HAVING A COCHRAN MARRY AN INDIAN MAIDEN IN THE 1800'S. I KNOW MY OLDEST SISTER ACQUIRED AN IMMUNE DEFICIENCY DISORDER YEARS BACK AND THE DOCTOR TOLD HER THIS TIME OF DEFICIENCY ONLY RAN IN THE INDIAN BLOOD LINE SO WE WERE ALL CONFUSED FOR SOME TIME SINCE MY FATHER NEVER TOLD US OF ANY INDUIN, AND MY MOTHER'S ANCESTRY WAS DIRECTLY FROM GERMANY. MY FATHER VERNIE HAD COLE BLACK HAIR AND HIGH CHEEK BONES WITH BEUATIFUL BLUE EYES, SO THE CHEROKEE SHOWED UP IN HIM. THERE WAS A STORY WE WERE TOLD ALL WHILE WE WERE GROWING UP THAT I WOULD LIKE TO VALIDATE. WHEN LINCOLN FREED THE SLAVES IT IS SAID THAT A COCHRAN WHICH I GUESS WOULD HAVE BEEN MY GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER, LEFT HIS ENTIRE WEALTHY PLANTATION TO HIS SLAVES. DEEDED IT TO THEM. IT IS SUSPECTED HE HAD MANY OF HIS OWN CHILDREN THERE, RAISED AS SLAVES AND THIS IS WHY HE DID IT. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THIS?