-----Original Message----- From: ron stone [mailto:blueoak@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:05 AM To: Mike Bolding; MILLER-L@rootsweb.com; Maryacats20@yahoo.com; kwebb14880@hotmail.com Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: James "Walking Jim" Miller Mike, It's good to have some mail from you waiting. Please let me make some corrections to a bit of your information... or at least I believe them to be correct. First, I believe the name was Ailey Adaline Miller Bolding ... Ailey the first name rather then Adaline. Second, I think I sent Mark a copy of a narrative from Aunt Alice about her grandmother Ailey. It looks like you have read it or heard of some parts of it from your comments here. Ailey's sisters are mentioned by name in that narrative , and so is the brother who was so unfortunate as to accidentally kill his stepmother with the batted ball. As I recall , Ailey was originally engaged to Joe Woolbright. He was in the Confederate Army and was reported killed in action. Ailey later married Andy. Lo and behold , Joe shows up.. rumors of his death having been greatly exaggerated, to take a phrase of a famous wit... Joe Woolbright then marries one of Ailey's sisters. Names are in the narrative by Alice. They (Joe and the sister) relocate to Texas. That is where the missing brother recognizes sister . I wish I could get to the material in my crashed computer, to add some more. Your brother Mark and I were in contact with another Bolding descendant out here, her name is Betty ... and I am having a senior moment as to her last name for right now .. but I know Mark and Betty corresponded, so he would have it. Alice said that Ailey told her that her father Jim or James Miller was a full Cherokee if I remember it right. The first reference to him having a nickname , i e.. "Walking" was when Mark scanned and sent me the tintype about the time we first made contact. I haven't run into that nickname in any of the OK Boldings I have contacted otherwise. I think you should look at the 1860 census for Franklin Co, and the same for 1850, if I don't miss my guess, there are Miller and Bolding families there that we would recognize. I will have to stop with this one reply tonight as it is late as all get out here. I will look at all this correspondence and see if I can chime in on some of the others too. I was amazed at how much you have sent and I will read it and save it to a floppy so that I can look at again and so it doesn't get lost in another crashed computer. thanks .... ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Bolding <mbold1@hotmail.com> To: <MILLER-L@rootsweb.com>; <Maryacats20@yahoo.com>; <kwebb14880@hotmail.com>; <blueoak@ix.netcom.com> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:15 PM Subject: James "Walking Jim" Miller > I am looking for other desecendants of this man Jim MILLER. It > is believed this man was at least one half Cherokee Indian. It is > believed that Jim miller was born in Tenn while it was still Indian > Territory Jim had at least 3 Daughters and one Son. One of the daughters was > named Adeline Ailey Miller. Dhe was born in the state of Georgia > in 1843. Its not know for certain but believed she was born in Gainesville > Ga. I have an old tintype picture of Walking Jim Miller > would be glad to send a scanned photo of this man. Interested in > all inquires. Will respond. Adeline Ailey Miller was my Great Great > Grandmother I also have some scanned Photos of her and her husband > Andrew "Andy" Pickens Bolling/BOLDING. Walking Jim's second wife was > believed to have been named Telithia Campbell McKenny MILLER Seeking > Adeline Millers three Known sibilings and their descendants One > Brother and Two Sisters. Its know that one sister lived in or around > talaquhah Cherokee Nation Headquarters around 1885 or so. And the other > daughter married and resided in Texas names unknown. The second sister > owned with her husband somekind of layway or motel and diner for > travelers some where in texas possible named midland or something like > that. Whereabouts and name of the brother is unknown he ran away from home > while young he thought he'd killed his step mother with a thrown baseball it > is believed. He once visited the sister in Texas it is > known in the meantime all names of all of them have been forgotton. > Walking Jim's Father was named James also he married a Lucindia Browning. > Please contact Michael Bolding at mbold1@hotmail.com > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com >