-----Original Message----- From: Barbara <[email protected]> To: Kathy Noah <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 8:58 PM Subject: Re: Harmon and Dorcas Lewis >Hi Kathy, > >I guess 3 of the Lewis children died young....James the twin,Margarett >and Lucinda. I wonder what happened to Phebe Lewis? I bet she was named >after Dorcas's mother,Phebe Griffith. > >My line >James W. Prater/Phebe Griffith >George Washington Prater/Sarah Prewitt >James Monroe Prater/Nancy Emily Dalton >Oscar Allen Prather/Fannie Moore >Vina Belle Prather/William Edwards >ME > >I have a list of George W.'s and Dorcas siblings. Do you need one? There >were 10 children.I believe our Praters came from Tazewell to Morgan >Co.in the mid 1840's.My branch moved to Lewis Co.after the Civil War. > >Do you know anything about our Praters marrying Cherokees? Another >"cousin" told me that Dorcas looked native American.Have you ever seen a >picture? I noticed in No.Carolina there were a group of Cherokees with >the surname Griffith in the 1800's. Another mystery to explore! > >Write soon. >Barbara Edwards > Hi Barbara, Yes I would like a copy of your Praters and Lewis. I could then match it to my info. Phebe J. married a man last name Wood, thats all I know on her. I do have a picture of Dorcas, alittle one, which I've been frantically looking for since we moved in July. I put it in a safe place and forgot the safe place, just like a woman. I don't think she looks Indian. My dad looks Indian, high cheek bones, black hair and his skin color is brick red, like an Indian. He has blue eyes, this is a story he was told from his mother Dora Lewis, that they come from a tribe of blue-eyed Cherokee's. I heard that story all my life even when my grandmother Dora was alive. My dad says I look more like his side of the family, the Lewis's. I don't know about the Prater line and the Cherokees. I just recently received info from a Prater cousin, Peggy Sue Wilson, on the Praters, havent diguested the who scope of family info. Good luck on the Cherokee research. My husband is Cherokee and I'm doing research on his family line, the Vernons. I have copies of his family's Indian papers from Georgia before they left for Ok. His Ggreatgrandfather spent 13 years in El Reno prision for being a rennagade Indian and clubbing a few wifes to death. If I find Dorcas Lewis picture I'll send you a copy, need to send John Wills a copy also, he's a cousin to all this also. Take care Kathy Noah