This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chaney, Canady, Damron, Reed, Saye, Springfield, Goad... Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kIZ.2ACEB/1099.2.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I descend from L. Paulina Frances (Fanny) Goad and Hezekiah Chaney. The family tradition was that one of the "grandmothers" was a full-blood Cherokee. Susannah Jester was the most likely candidate but that appears to be untrue. (Her mother was a Spencer.) However, one of her brothers did marry a full-blood Cherokee! That may be the root of the "tradition" in my Chaney lineage. I was told that JamesHenry Goad's wife was named Alice May/Mae Hill but the person who provided the info listed no source. I show Floyd's twin as Boyd.