Hi Scott, Juanita and Anna! According to her death certificate, my great-great-grandmother, Matilda Catherine 'Tilda' House, was born 20 Feb 1854 in Arkansas.. She married Thomas Hemphill Peter 'Pea' Roberts about 1870 presumably in the vicinity Fulton County in north Arkansas where his family lived. Plesant Sidney Roberts, her first son arrived on 6 May 1871. Pea and Tilda raised their own family in the vicinity of Salem, Camp and Wheeling in Fulton County, Arkansas and Howell County, Missouri. However, sometime after 1900 (probably during the oil boom during the first World War), they moved to El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas where they lived until their deaths. Family legend had it that Tilda was an American Indian - Choctaw or Cherokee or whatever. She was supposed to have been adopted as a child and raised by a white family named Evans or maybe House - we're just not sure. Her grandson and my grandfather, Ernest Roberts, in a video taped interview in 1989, stated that his grandmother was a 'full blooded Indian' although he didn't know the tribe. The photos of her taken 24 Oct 1915 show her to be diminutive lady, but do not show any facial features I could characterize as 'Indian.' I've gone to the Rootsweb site where your query was posted and reviewed the queries each of you posted. While they are suggestive, they don't offer much to grab onto. Can any of you or any of those in the mailing list offer any firmer information? -- Robert W. King I'm an ingenieur, NOT a bloody locomotive driver! SnailNet: 19023 TV Tower Rd, Winslow, Arkansas 72959 BellNet: 501-634-2086 InterNet: robert@wildweasel.net Web site: http://www.wildweasel.net -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of scotadam@hotmail.com Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2001 01:47 To: HOUSE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: HOUSE This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOUSE/Price/Adams/Walker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFk.2ACIB/1227.1 Message Board Post: I saw your posting about name HOUSE ... My mother's maiden name was VERNELL (Nell) house ... parents Porter and Ira. From Henry County, Tennessee. I noted your references to Cherokee bloods. I am made to understand that there is also Chickasaw and Choctaw in my blood strain/ This group of Houses lived primarily in unincorporated area called "Hico" near Cottage Grove in northwestern Henry County. With two wives, the father of PORTER HOUSE had 18 siblings, few of which I never had the opportunity to know. Porter and Ira are buried in the Price family cemetery in Henry County's Hico/Cottage Grove, Tennessee I have AIDS and very much want to learn more of my past. Please feel free to contact me @ the email above. Thanks. children: Hamsel; Nell, Dalton, Donnie, Hilda <died as infant_ PERHAPS MORE good LUCK TO YOU ,... hope we can help each other; who knows ... we might be related \ ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog