In a message dated 7/8/10 12:54:52 AM, jimmie.ryan@verizon.net writes: > I would not put it pass any of our > Loveless (Lovelace) clan if they were not more Cherokee blood then your > grandpa cuz Lou Ann, just look at where Lucinda was born in North Carolina > and the tribes around Rutherford. > Yes, my grandpa did also have Cherokee blood, but I have yet to pinpoint where it is. I think it is from his mother whose maiden name was Brooks and the Brooks are illusive. Can't find the exact link to our Brooks, although I have found several families in the areas of both GA and AL where our Lovelesses were. There's kind of a funny story in regard to the Cherokee in my grandpa's family. Grandpa's brother married a girl who was 1/8 Cherokee. At the time my grandpa was 18 and he was against this "mixed marriage". I have a copy of a letter he wrote to a cousin in TX saying that. Yet, when I was about 12 my grandpa told me that he had a Cherokee grandpa. I can picture the scenario of this 18 year old ranting about his brother's "mixed marriage" and his mother taking him by the ears and telling him to hush his mouth because he was also Cherokee, probably an eighth as well. I wish that when I was twelve I had had the sense (or the courage) to ask for more information. The question came about because I had asked my mother what nationality we were and she told me Black Dutch, but she had no clue what that meant, so I asked my Grandparents. They told me it meant we were Cherokee. My grandmother told me she had a Cherokee grandmother (I have found her) and my grandfather told me he had a Cherokee grandfather (the illusive one). However, the message that came through to me loud and clear that day was that they really didn't want to talk about it, so I didn't pursue it. Bad mistake. The other funny thing about this, is that my grandfather was having such a fit about his brother marrying a girl who was 1/8 Cherokee and then he did the same thing. This tells me that he had definitely learned of his own heritage and had changed his mind about "mixed marriages". Lou Ann