This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Allen, Cotten, Blackmon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/579.574 Message Board Post: Is anyone researching the Allen side know of the Allen's listed below? My gg-grandmother had 2 children supposedly out of wedlock or either married a Choctaw Indian and below is the only man of Indian ancestry in the census at that time. My g-grandmother never knew her father's name as we were told that the custom was to never "say" the "husband's" name. My gg-grandmother was Mary Jane Cotten (but may have used the name Blackmon due to family incident-disowned her father) who was married to an "unknown" Parker (had son, Elias) and after he left she "married" an Indian. 1880 Catahoula Parish, LA, Ward #8, p. 36, enumerated 6-23-1880 Allen, Sam Indian M 25 Laborer Born MS, both parents born in MS Allen, Sally Indian F 45 Mother *Unable to read/write Makes Baskets, born in MS, both parents born in MS Allen, Melissa Indian F 6 Orphan Born in LA, both parents born in MS