Hi, I don't know if my g-g-grandmother Christiana's surname was Jones or Janes, her marriage document is the only known record containing her name and the flowery, back-slanted script is difficult to decipher. I have never found her in any census records. Christiana Jones/Janes was born about 1832, (three possibilities, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas). On Dec. 19, 1863 she married William Samuel Fredrick in Pocahontas, Randolph Co., AR; the record states she was 31 and he was 43. She was William S. Fredrick's third wife. They had a daughter, Mary Ellen Fredrick b. 1865. Christiana died some time before 1872 when William Samuel married his fourth wife. They were living in either the Little Black Township area of Randolph Co., AR, or in War Eagle, which at that time was in Madison Co., AR, when she passed away, but I haven't found any record of her death or where she was buried. Her granddaughter Georgia Pond Bowman states the surname was Jones, and that Christiana was half Cherokee. Georgia has very old-style pictures of Christiana in traditional Cherokee dress, as well as a formal picture of her in a fancy (but wrinkled) dress and expensive jewelry. My grandmother Lillie Maye Mays Simpson had the same formal dress picture. She also told me when I was young that her grandmother (Christiana) had been half Cherokee and had died from a stab wound to the back. The picture of her husband William Samuel Fredrick shows a man very well attired, definitely no wrinkles, even sports a pinky ring and pocket watch. It was known he was a farmer and raised race horses. Does anyone know of a Jones family with a maternal Cherokee line? I would like to find out where the sad-eyed lady in the old photo came from, and what happened to her. Have a good day, Merrie