This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOUSE, HEILIG, CROWELL....WE ARE AFRICAN AMERICANS/CHEROKEE/GERMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFk.2ACIB/670.770.1 Message Board Post: I have African Americans with surname House in my family. We are from Rowan and Cabarrus County, N.C.; Joel House was my great grandfather, and according to the Cabarrus County, N.C. census of 1850 he was a free man, a carpenter. Other House family members live in Rowan, in Gold Hill townships ever since the 1870s at least. Joseph