Hi Jerri and Larry I was going through some old mail I have saved. I want to respond to the Native American comments in the posts pasted below. For 3 1/2 years I published a monthly Genealogy newsletter. Since I myself am searching Native American in the family of my children I often included Native American people in my newsletter. One of the contributors to my newsletter was a Cherokee and I would surmise that your Margaret Raper was of Cherokee descent. I have 80 printed pages of the line of my Cherokee contributor and even Varner sounds familiar to me. Here is a link to one HUGE Cherokee family line. When you get to the home page go to bottom of page and click on index. That brings you to the entire list of surnames. http://genealogy.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0000-0001.html Jeannie in OR :) Subj: Re: [COOPER] Need info on H. L. Cooper Date: 3/20/2004 9:52:26 PM Pacific Standard Time From: _RejectRanchTX@wmconnect.com_ (mailto:RejectRanchTX@wmconnect.com) Reply-to: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) To: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) Sent from the Internet _(Details)_ (aolmsg://0ef08f70/inethdr/2) oh I'm sorry bout the A...that would be a small a....but speaking of odd names in this Cooper line, my Grandmother was Dorris Vardilliea Cooper...her father was Varner "Mingo" Cooper...I am told that they descend from Native American lines, I believe some married Indian women before leaving Ga. Probably why they left Ga when they did....i'd love to know what you find out...Jerri Subj: Fw: [COOPER] Need info on H. L. Cooper Date: 3/20/2004 9:00:27 PM Pacific Standard Time From: _coop47@adams.net_ (mailto:coop47@adams.net) Reply-to: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) To: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) Sent from the Internet _(Details)_ (aolmsg://0f2a7358/inethdr/2) Aho, I sent this by using the back door approach , this Cooper family has some very unusual names that run through it. All of the unusual names are also in ours. One of them is Parthenia you don't find it every day. The name that I would like to find would the father of Ammon (Amon ) Cooper b. Abt.1806 in North Carolina USA. He married Margaret Raper in 1828-9 in North Carolina Thank you Larry D. Cooper Subj: Re: [COOPER] Need info on H. L. Cooper Date: 3/20/2004 10:24:39 PM Pacific Standard Time From: _coop47@adams.net_ (mailto:coop47@adams.net) Reply-to: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) To: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) Sent from the Internet _(Details)_ (aolmsg://0f1de988/inethdr/2) Aho Jerri, If you are of this family you told me of . You are Native you would be of the Choctaw , Cherokee, Ckickamaka , ????????. They are all good people have pride in them and yourself , heritage is the only thing that the government can not take away from you. Larry D. Cooper SoU Subj: Re: [COOPER] Need info on H. L. Cooper Date: 3/20/2004 10:41:58 PM Pacific Standard Time From: _RejectRanchTX@wmconnect.com_ (mailto:RejectRanchTX@wmconnect.com) Reply-to: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) To: _COOPER-L@rootsweb.com_ (mailto:COOPER-L@rootsweb.com) Sent from the Internet _(Details)_ (aolmsg://00c7f9a8/inethdr/2) well thank you soo much...I have difficulty tracing the Native American parts in my tree...and there's a bunch...nearly every line...but i have trouble because I don't believe any(or very few) went to a reservation...We have always known about the Indian blood...and asked about it always, but I never had answers...only that I believed it was Choctaw and Cherokee and probably some others...but I would love to find out which ones we descend from for my children...My son is only in first grade and already asking "am I Indian" so thanks, really....Jerri