This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CROCKER, BURGESS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ue.2ADI/177.180.184.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Now I am puzzled!!! The Crocker & Wilson family is believed by many that I have contacted, to have been Cherokee Indian from NC. I have found no record of them in NC and Piercy only is shown in the 1850 IL census. Some believe she returned to NC or died. I had them check the death records for Crawford Co. and there is no record of her death, but that was very early for death records also. Some have told me they believe that Alfred died in NC or on the trail to Illinois. Jesse's brother Simpson Crocker and his family moved to Pomona, Kansas and later their sister, Elizabeth Amada Crocker Hill moved there also. She had lived in Colorado, so they moved around a lot. Eliza, being in IT, that would have been Oklahoma Territory where the Cherokee Indians were taken from NC. It would not have been that far for her to go to Texas, most of the family had moved somewhere else. Jesse had another brother William who fought for the North and the South in the Civil War. Zilpha Moria had a child born in NC, then in IL she married Oliver Hazard Bishop and they moved to Colorado. The son born in NC, was Burden Crocker and he died in the Civil War. Brother Richard died between 1855-1860 in Clark Co. IL., so as you can see they moved or died, so it would not have been impossible for Eliza to go to Texas. Have you gotten a copy of the marriage record? Keep me posted. Carol Shaw