Hi Richard, That's very interesting, thanks! I am not a Brashears researcher but several of my close fellow researchers are/were, so we discussed them quite a bit. The families that I am familiar with were Choctaw and Creek. They were originally French Huguenot who fled to England to escape Catholic persecution. Robert Brasseur was in Virginia by 1650 and moved to Calvert Co., MD by 1658 and established himself and his family among the "elite" and wealthy forefathers through the ensuing years, with descendants moving down through PA and KY until they eventually reached Natchez, MS. Benjamin Brashears received a Spanish grant for land near Russum, MS. If you make the trek down the Natchez Trace, the site of Brashear's Stand is one of the historical points located just above Jackson, MS. It was advertised as "a house of entertainment in the wilderness" to travelers in 1806. You can see a portion of the old trace, sunken wagon road, nearby and the MS Crafts Center is located nearby, also. It's really a very scenic area around a huge reservoir. One of Benjamin's sons, Turner Brashears, married a Choctaw Indian woman and was a Choctaw interpreter for Benjamin Hawkins. This family was very involved in Indian trade and the government factory houses along the MS/AL border areas, dealing with Choctaw and Creeks, mainly, but also some Chickasaw. I don't recall reading anything about a Cherokee connection in this bunch, but I only became familiar with these lines that were in Creek/Choctaw country. Regards, Evelyn Richard wrote: I am not up with your conversation, but my great grandmother was Margaret Brashears. I have not researched her further back than she married my great grandfather Lester Blackman in 1876 in MO. He was from NY state and I think she was from the southeast . I think some of the Brashears in this area went to Ind territory Oklahoma turn of century,.. I suspect them of Cherokee.

Evelyn, Thank you very kindly for the nice information about the Brashears. This "could" fit with mine ,.. you mention them being French ,... the man Lester Blackman , my greatgrandmother Brashears married was French (also!). I think he was 2nd generation in America, his father listed as not speaking english on the fed census inquiry. I did not intend to say that our Brashears was Cherokee (only of the possibility). Brashears was my father's line,.. (Reagan, Barndard, Husky, Emmert, Ogle) was my mother's line that is Cherokee/Euchee Creek. The "skeletons" have really came out of the closet with this genealogy business, I think my relatives just did not know their family very well. I recently find in my father's mother's line (Moore) is her aunt was member of Dalton Gang , according to Emmett Dalton's book about the hard cases. Emmett gives her as Eugenia Moore , .. I have some letters and I think one from Eugenia from I.T. to her family (my father's grandmother) here in MO. I think it is good that we do not (R.I.P.) let them be forgotten. Thanks for your help. Richard (B.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evelyn S. Leslie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:56 AM Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Brashears > Hi Richard, > That's very interesting, thanks! I am not a Brashears researcher but > several of my close fellow researchers are/were, so we discussed them > quite a bit. The families that I am familiar with were Choctaw and Creek. > They were originally French Huguenot who fled to England to escape > Catholic persecution. Robert Brasseur was in Virginia by 1650 and moved > to Calvert Co., MD by 1658 and established himself and his family among > the "elite" and wealthy forefathers through the ensuing years, with > descendants moving down through PA and KY until they eventually reached > Natchez, MS. Benjamin Brashears received a Spanish grant for land near > Russum, MS. If you make the trek down the Natchez Trace, the site of > Brashear's Stand is one of the historical points located just above > Jackson, MS. It was advertised as "a house of entertainment in the > wilderness" to travelers in 1806. You can see a portion of the old trace, > sunken wagon road, nearby and the MS Crafts Center is located nearby! > , also. It's really a very scenic area around a huge reservoir. One of > Benjamin's sons, Turner Brashears, married a Choctaw Indian woman and was > a Choctaw interpreter for Benjamin Hawkins. This family was very involved > in Indian trade and the government factory houses along the MS/AL border > areas, dealing with Choctaw and Creeks, mainly, but also some Chickasaw. > I don't recall reading anything about a Cherokee connection in this bunch, > but I only became familiar with these lines that were in Creek/Choctaw > country. > Regards, > Evelyn > > Richard wrote: > I am not up with your conversation, but my great grandmother was Margaret > Brashears. I have not researched her further back than she married my > great > grandfather Lester Blackman in 1876 in MO. He was from NY state and I > think > she was from the southeast . I think some of the Brashears in this area > went to Ind territory Oklahoma turn of century,.. I suspect them of > Cherokee. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >