This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CelesteHolly51 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.lawson/6754.1.2.1.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This is from the Guion Miller Rolls where descendants applied for Cherokee Funds. Most did not get the funds/reparations for broken treaties with the Cherokee as they were not living on Cherokee lands in 1835 and/or were living among/as white since before 1835. ABE HOOKER living VA, born 1871 Wife LILLA or LILA Father EPHRAIM Hooker and Mother NANCY PACK Paternal Grandparents were Gabrel and NANCY Hooker Maternal was ISHAM PACK Abe was living on Peters Creek in Patrick Co., VA and was age 36 born in 1871.. He applied along with his wife. Wife LILLA SAVANNAH , age 26. She was "Cherokee we suppose through the FRY and SHELTON families." She claimed through her father Samuel H. Fry. (There is a Samuel H. Fry who applied with a note by his name to refer to Lilla's file number ) Abe and Lilla's children were JOHN DILLARD Hooker born 1902 and ARTHUR REED Hooker born 1904.. Abe said he was the son of EPHRAIM and NANCY Pack Hooker. He said his father was "an old soldier" who had died in 1896 and his mother still living "gets a pension from the state." His grandparents were listed as GABE and NANCY Hooker on his father's side and ISHAM PACK on his mother's. . "the Hooker family is said to have gotten their name from the Cherokees. I think they go back near 1700" When asked where his grandparents were born he said Patrick Co, VA and that:. "These were old hunters in the Blue Ridge Mountains." Abe's brothers and sisters were all married and listed as : Eliza Ann Goin Leanner Slate Bethanah Gammons Lucinda Gammons William A. Hooker John m. Hooker Maybe some of this is helpful, Celeste Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.