Hello all, I am looking for information on my gr-gr grandfather, Quanka Tal or Tall Wolf, a Cherokee, and father of Betty Pickard/Pritchard/Priddy/Pritchett, wife of Willis Washington Ward (b.1845), parents of Julia O'Retta Ward-Johnson-Wiley-Carter (b.Jan.11, 1881). This information comes from oral family history. I have an elderly cousin who remembers seeing Betty and Washington one time when he was a young boy. He tells me Washington was part NA (maybe Choctaw) and Black Dutch and had very dark complexion. Betty was better than 3/4 NA, her father being full blood Cherokee and her mother half white and half Cherokee or some other NA. There were 6 other children born to this couple. Julia's twin was Dovey Janetta Ward (married to Frank Morton), May Ward married Henry Akers, Riller (don't know what this is short for)married several times (Ferguson is the only one I know of) Maude Ward married Jim Ogleman, Jeff Ward and Steve Ward. One of the boys was a banjo player. Julia married first to a man named Johnson. She was carrying his child when he was killed and lost the child. She then married William Martin Wiley of Polk Co., AR and they had 5 children. William Jackson Wiley (my grandfather), Roy Abe Wiley, (changed his name to Mike), Corneilous Toke Wiley, (the Toke was named after one of Julia's family members. We called him "Neely") Carrie Alice Wiley, (married J.T. "Perry" Winters) and Jess Wiley. Wm. was mean to Julia and she believed he would kill her, so she took the kids and left, walking 20 miles to Mena, AR. She then married Frank Carter and they moved back to IT, with her children and they had 2 children, Tom and Flora Carter. I believe Flora married a Metcalf and they moved to Oregon or Washington State. My cousin said Betty and Washington Ward lived near Lone Wolf when they went to see them. He was in the Masonic Lodge and was a Grand Master at one time. I would appreciate anything anyone knows about this family. Thanks, Julia Cox-Wilson