This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Raper, Rapier Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/606.1578.1584.1591.1 Message Board Post: I am just now looking into the Raper/Rapier line; my mother (now deceased) had spent many years on it. The given names Riley, Dison, William, Thomas, and Benjamin (3/4 Cherokee) seem to be the males; and this line goes back through TN and SC (NC?) until you get to the Trail of Tears in 1838. Our Rapers apparently hid out and did not go West. There are some Indian names as well (Aquah, for one) associated to the females, as 2 Rapiers (or Napiers) apparently married 2 Indian girls at one time. There is also the name McDaniel (an Indian) involved. If any of this means anything to anyone, I'd appreciate a response. Thanks.