I am forwarding this message from another list - perhaps someone can help her find her Anna. -----Original Message----- From: Brenda G. Kent [mailto:wt211@victoria.tc.ca] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:16 AM To: CHEROKEE-SURNAMES-L@rootsweb.com Still looking for any info on the Watkins name. This person that is my great great grandmother was named Annie or Anna Watkins (sometimes spelled Wadkins) and one of her close female relatives married a Cherokee fellow. This couple had children. Anna herself was born in North Carolina moved to South Carolina and then ended up in Blue Ridge Georgia area. Her first husbands last name was Sisson...but her second husband (my great great grandfather) was a Bradford and he was 15 years or so her junior. They had children and then Annie died in Oklahoma as the family were moving westward. The story of the Cherokee person marrying into the family held to this day. Anyone know of any woman who was a Watkins...who married a Cherokee gentleman and then had children and were living near Georgia? I know this is quite the long shot...but I wish to know my Cherokee side. thanks Brenda Kent (great great granddaughter of Annie Watkins Bradford).