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Today I went to a family reunion and was talking about our past (and passed) relatives. When I mentioned my g grandmother, Paraline Parmer, one of the older cousins said, "Oh, the Creek Indian woman...". I was speechless for a few moments but then picked her brain for everything she could remember, which turned out to be very little except that Paraline was indeed Creek (not a princess, BTW) and was from Randolph Co. Alabama. She married my g grandfather, William Thomas Whitley and had a houseload of kids. After all these years I have been writing about the Creek Indians and wishing I could claim at least some blood ties, I think I may have found some. The search is on!!! MVTO Phil Whitley

CONGRADS! I know the feelings as well......after around 60 years, with the help of many on this site, I was assisted in finding proof of my native blood which lead to being brought into the Lower Muscogee Creek Nation. THEN....JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, I was told I have an exact DNA match with these three sons of this lady that lives in AZ, but was once married to a half Hispanic and half Yuchi in OK where the boys were born.....one is now near 20 years old. The blood line is with the Barnett surname that traces back to Timothy Barnard and his son, it seems, with Timpoochee Barnard being the likely ancestor. I suspected my grand daddy, Tom Timothy (b 1854), was out of the Hitachi due to seeing a government bill dated 1803 for a Timothley (an Hitachi) that was on the list. There is still a dead end with Tom, being raised as an orphan, but have heard stories of his parents migration without him, and that he went searching OK for them after he was raised from 6 years old with some aunt married to a white man, then came back to Monroe County. It seems, based on my DNA he may have came out of the Yuchi instead. >From what I have found, and was told, the Barnard name was changed somewhere along the line after Timpoochee for some reason. We know many natives changed their name at times to hide. The sons are registered with the Muscogee Creek Nation in OK through their great grand father who was on the Dawes Report dated in 1907....roll number 283,William Abraham Barnett, Jr. I verified the name and number on the Dawes Report....it's there. He was listed as 3/4 blood. Does anyone know anything about this line the mother gave me? Here is the info I was sent and any help will be appreciated: "Here's the boys' Yuchi background: Their father was Donald James "Barney" Barnett, passed away in 2007. His father, their grandfather, was Elliott Jean Barnett, d. in 2003 (?). He was from both Haskell and Sapulpa, OK. His father was William Abraham Barnett, Jr. The roll # is 283 (I think, without looking). Therefore his father had to be William Abraham Barnett, Sr. I'm thinking this is the one that I've seen in some writings as Billy Barnett. But from him back to Timothy Barnard, the son of the English immigrants, I have a few gaps. The descendents of Cosena Barnard have surnames of Gregory and Brown. Sam Brown was a "chief," although the Yuchi are not a federally recognized tribe. They're considered a minority group within the Creek Nation and had lived in the Sapulpa area for quite some time. They tried as recently as 2000 for that status but did not get it. They're too mixed in by now, I guess, and last I heard there were only about 13 people that spoke the language. By the way, the language is not related at all to the rest of the Southeastern groups. It seems to be an anomaly but they have classified it as Siouan, I believe. You can find more on them in Columbus, GA. What I find an ironic twist of history is that the Yuchi were forced to vacate their areas in the Jacksonian era (actually Cosena did not wait 'till forced removal - some of them self-emigrated to Indian Territory before that) and guess who replaced them in GA and AL? Some of my Cobb ancestors! So my kids are a mix of the clash." Again.....any help is appreciated. TT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Whitley" <pwhitley@bellsouth.net> To: <creek-southeast@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 11:36 PM Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Estanko, my BLOOD Brothers and Sisters > Today I went to a family reunion and was talking about our past (and > passed) > relatives. When I mentioned my g grandmother, Paraline Parmer, one of the > older cousins said, "Oh, the Creek Indian woman...". I was speechless for > a > few moments but then picked her brain for everything she could remember, > which turned out to be very little except that Paraline was indeed Creek > (not a princess, BTW) and was from Randolph Co. Alabama. She married my g > grandfather, William Thomas Whitley and had a houseload of kids. > > After all these years I have been writing about the Creek Indians and > wishing I could claim at least some blood ties, I think I may have found > some. The search is on!!! > > MVTO > Phil Whitley > > Notes on the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm > > Early Creek History > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ > > Migration Legend of the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message