WOW.....thanks for all this wonderful recent contact. I love reading all your notes back and forth. Some of you on the list are so well informed. It's such a pleasure to hear your notes. Thanks Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lovelace" <greglovelace@comcast.net> To: <lovelace@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [LL] Cherokee Blood > All, > > As far as I know, none of my line has any Cherokee blood. They were > in Spartanburg Co., SC in the early 1800s before moving up to > Rutherford Co., NC in the 1810s. There is always the possibility > that there was some intermarriage with Cherokees, but I have no > direct evidence of it. I do know that in the early 1900s, the > federal government, in an attempt to make amends for the uprooting of > the Eastern Cherokees, formed a commission, the Dawes Commission, to > investigate claims of Cherokee ancestry and determine if any > reparations were due to the descendants of those forced to leave > their ancestral homelands and move to join the Western Cherokees on > the reservation in Oklahoma. Many people, in an effort to get in on > the government gravy train, tried to claim Cherokee ancestry. Some > were successful, some were not. I do know that some of the > descendants of Barton of GA applied to the Dawes Commission, but I > think they were claiming ancestry through Barton's wife Ibby. Lou > Ann and Anne Haneghan can set me straight on that if I'm wrong. So > many of the claims of Cherokee ancestry may be traced back to the > possibility of getting a share of the reparations offered by the > government. > > Peace, > Part of the Tree, > Greg > > > At 12:35 PM 7/15/2010, you wrote: >>Mollie (Mary R.) Lovelace, daughter of William Ramsey Lovelace is >>noted in our family oral history as being Cherokee. I have never >>found a document to prove it, though the few photographs we have of >>her she does look as though she might indeed have been. >> >>I am not sure if the Cherokee came from her Lovelace father or from >>her mother, Ann Knott. >> >>Would love to know if any of the Barton clan has found records of >>Cherokee? Greg #1??? > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3006 - Release Date: 07/14/10 > 22:26:00 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message