This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5R.2ADI/918.3.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Lizzie: Thanks for retelling Osceola's story. My grandmother taught it to me and I've always believed more people should know it. My grandmother was Zella Macaw Styles Wilson. Her grandmother was said to be half black, half Creek and was said to have married her husband, an Irish trapper, to be able to stay in Creek territory after the removal - by Georgia Governor Troup, a cousin to "chief" McIntosh and a cousin to Andrew Jackson. (My grandmother was a descendent of a Red Stick clan - Panther clan - and had no kind words for Mr. McIntosh.) Though my grandmother started our family's geneology and was better at it than I, I still haven't confirmed her grandmother's descent. Sometimes I suspect she may have borrowed someone else's name. Nobody in my family (a Southern white family) ever wanted to talk about the fact that an ancestress may have been half black - possibly a descendant of an escaped slave, though the Indian side was always acknowledged. Finding the stori! es my grandmother told me stated in very similar words by others IS my confirmation of the oral history I have as a legacy to my grandmother.