Posted as found on the web: Regards, ///Steve Looney/// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.melungeons.com/articles/may2005e.htm Cooper, Mary (about 1809-1834), married Thompson Sinard, great-grandson of fullblood Cherokee woman known as Leek and James Sinard of North Carolina, a descendant of the Huguenot religious dissenter Chevalier de Sinard, who came to America via Ireland. The Sinards were lapsed Quakers and among the first settlers of Buncombe Co., N.C. James Thomas Sinard died in Collinsville, DeKalb Co., Ala., about 1850. Harriet L. Sinard married William Henry Atkins. There was a connection with the namesake for Big Wills Valley outside Valley Head, and Little Wills and Little Wills Creek, both the north branch and the south branch, which meander across Little Wills Valley and through the town of Collinsville. William Webber, also called Redheaded Will, was the son of a Cherokee woman, the mother also, by Kittegunsta, of Ostenaco, and a British officer named Webber. He came from Nequassee in North Carolina. His half-sister was Margaret Siniard, who married a Lamb. Some researchers have Margaret as the daughter of Anawaika (Deerhead). His brother may have been Archibald Webber, and he was somehow related to Blackheaded Cooper, Mary Cooper’s father, also recorded as a Chickamauga chief. The Webbers intermarried with the Vanns, too. Sarah Webber married John Brown. Chief Will’s daughter BETSY WEBBER married CHIEF JOHN LOONEY. Their daughter ELIZA ABIGAIL LOONEY married DANIEL RATTLING GOURD. Another daughter, ELEANOR, married GEN. ELIAS (STAND) WATIE. Yet another daughter, RACHEL, married JOHN NAVE, the grandson of Daniel Ross and Mary McDonald. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------