This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/AST.2ACEB/342.2 Message Board Post: My grandma was Josie Slaven, she was Half Cherekee,she married my grandpa- George washington Dowell in Waterloo Illinois about 1895. He was raised in Springfield MO WHEN LOST FROM HIS WAGON TRAIN.