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/460 Message Board Post: My GRANDMA WAS JOSIE SLAVENS DOWELL. SHE WAS HALF CHEREKEE. SHE DIED IN SPRINGFIELD mO AT 53., IN 1924.SHE HAD DIABETES AS MOST OF HAVE. My grandpa was lost from a wagon train, he was George williard, he was 9 years old. He was raised in Springfield Mo.