Why do I say Donald Panther-Yates goes off half cocked? The following is an excerpt from a web page titled "You will never find the Truth" that Donald Panther-Yates had posted to the internet. This page has now been removed, but it can still be found in the cashed archives of the Google search engine. Donald mixes in just enough truth to make his unfounded and unsupported claims sound almost believable. Donald's erroneous statements associated with a picture of Moses Looney Sr. follow: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- FIG. 18. MOSES LOONEY (1780-1855) is shown in Masonic regalia in this rare photograph taken shortly before his death in Lawrence Co., Alabama. He married Sequoyah's niece, Mary Guess. He descends from Robert Looney of Ballagilley, Isle of Man, a member of the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish mercantile family Luna. Robert Looney brought his entire family to Philadelphia in 1732 and they became one of 70 families in a major settlement of the Virginia uplands under Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan in 1735. The Looneys were prominent in Tennessee history for building forts, making roads and commanding armies. John Looney, Moses' cousin, died a Cherokee chief. Photo courtesy of Wanda Looney Buss. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- What's truth and what's make believe? It's really hard to tell when reading Donald's statements. I do know that there has NOT been anything found to support the statement that Mary Guest (not Guess) who married Moses Looney Sr. was the niece of the famous Cherokee Sequoyah. On top of that, how do you like the statement that Robert Looney of the Isle of Man was a member of the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish mercantile family Luna? Where in the world did he come up with that? You can probably figure out why he has now taken this web page down. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Johnson" <JohnsonL@flash.net> To: <LOONEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [LOONEY-L] Moses Looney > I don't trust Donald Panther-Yates brand of genealogy. He makes statements > about family relationships without any evidence at all. He goes off half > cocked. >