Sorry, I cannot help your search. But, perhaps, you can clear up something for me. What does the term "Black Dutch" mean? My father's family called themselves Black Dutch.....is this a clue to their origin? I'd appreciate hearing from any and all on this subject. Bobbie Turner Beasley bebe@simplynet.net -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth or Julia Wilson <eggfarm@swbell.net> To: Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com <Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 3:52 AM Subject: Quanka Tal or Tall Wolf, Ward, Pickard/Pritchard/Priddy/Pritchett,Wiley in IT >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 > >