Yo Fawn !!! I am not going to go far with this, just to finish off a bit better as I said I would. I just need to refresh my memo a bit on this again. I will require some feed back from you since I don't really know your tree from a bar of soap. If you don't know, just say so.... Fawn, do you know [Skydancer] ?. Your [Amanda Cook] is Cherokee, is that right ?. John Wesley Collins/Collinsworth was Choctaw and Cherokee, is that right ?. If you go here, you will find two email addresses of others who are also looking into this family line: http://huntsville.about.com/library/blal0611014.htm - S.K.M. - [!!!] =====================