Thought someone on the list might be interested in this so am forwarding it from another list even though it was in the Seattle Washington Times. Mickey in Iowa -----Original Message----- From: Norma Lewis <norie@localaccess.com> To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:45 PM Subject: Cemeteries - Desecration of graves >Here is our latest NW cemetery scandal! >Norma > > City's transfer of remains at tribal site blasted >| http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/rema_19990811.html >| >| by Florangela Davila <fdav-new@seatimes.com> >| Seattle Times staff reporter >| >| When the city of Blaine embarked on a plan last spring to replace >|its outdated and overloaded sewage-treatment plant, the Lummi Indian >|Nation was especially reluctant to give its approval. >| >| The construction would entail excavation on the tribe's 4,000- >|year-old ancestral burial grounds at the base of Semiahmoo Spit. >|As a national archaeological site, federal and state laws protect >|any artifacts unearthed there. >| >| It was with those laws in mind, explained tribal attorney Theresa >|Pouley, that the Lummi Tribe agreed the construction project could >|proceed. >| >| What no one can understand - not tribal, state, federal or city >|officials - is how 28 sets of Indian remains could have been >|excavated two weeks ago by a city-hired archaeologist and then, >|without any notice, transported in a pickup to a Denver >|archaeological office. >| >| "There was a process and procedures in place, and no one knew," >|said Pouley, one of two tribal representatives who flew to Denver >|last week to collect the remains. >| >| "It's shocking that this could take place. It devastated the >|tribe." >| >| Pouley said she's been instructed by the tribe to seek prosecution. >|The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle and the state Attorney General's >|Office are looking into the incident, which could involve violations >|of the federal Archaeological Resource Protection Act as well as state >|laws governing Indian graves. The latter is a class C felony, >|punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. >| >| Work on the $7.75 million construction project - partly funded >|with $3 million in federal funds - has been stopped for at least this >|week as officials from various agencies determine what should be done. >| >| City officials are at a loss. >| >| "We still don't have a clear understanding as to why that >|happened, why our consultant made that decision to do that," said >|Anthony Mortillaro, Blaine's city manager. >| >| The city retained Golder Associates last spring on an $80,000 >|contract. Before the excavation work began, the city signed an >|agreement with state and federal officials that stipulated what >|should occur if human remains were found. Work was to be suspended >|and relocated, and officials with the state Office of Archaeology >|and Historic Preservation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, >|Rural Development, as well as the Lummi Tribe, were to be notified >|immediately. >| >| "I don't believe there was any misunderstanding as to what was >|to happen," said Jack Gleason, rural-business and rural-utilities >|director for the Agriculture Department. >| >| But when the remains were unearthed July 26, apparently only one >|unanswered phone call to the Lummi Tribe was made, city officials >|said. >| >| City, state and federal officials also said they were never >|informed of the discovery. The tribe's cultural director learned of >|the discovery from someone else in the community. That prompted an >|on-site visit the next morning; the remains had been moved to Denver. >| >| "His rationale for that was that he felt personally responsible >|for the remains, and he didn't feel it was right to leave them in a >|storage locker," said Grant Stewart, the city's public-works director. >| >| "In the heat of the moment, this guy blew it." >| >| Archaeologist Gordon Tucker has since been suspended, said Steve >|Thompson, principal with Golder Associates in Denver. The city is >|still working with the firm. >| >| The archaeologist had planned to inspect the remains further in >|Denver. Pouley said the remains were still in the pickup truck when >|she got there. The tribe also has received three other sets of >|remains retrieved more recently at the site. >| >| Tribal attorney Pouley notified the state and federal agencies >|of the remains, and they issued an immediate 10-day work stoppage >|Thursday, saying the contractual agreement had been violated. >| >| "The MOA (memorandum of agreement) explicitly called for treating >|the human remains with respect. Transferring a sovereign nation's >|ancestors to Denver without their consent or knowledge does not fall >|under that definition," the state's historic-preservation officer >|wrote the Agriculture Department. >| >| The city, Golder and other officials held a meeting in Blaine >|earlier this week and apologized to members of the Lummi Tribe. >| >|Posted at 06:00 a.m. PDT; Wednesday, August 11, 1999 >| >| E-mail Comments to Editor : Opinion@seatimes.com >| >| Seattle Times: Table of Content >| http://www.seattletimes.com/news/ >| >| The Seattle Times: Search Archive >| http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/search.html >| >| The Seattle Times: Browse by date >| http://www.seattletimes.com/todaysnews/browse.html >| >| Seattle Times: Special Reports >| http://www.seattletimes.com/news/special/ >| >| Permission requests and information >| http://www/seatimes.com/general/info.html >| >| Copyright (c) 1999 The Seattle Times Company >| http://www.seattletimes.com/news/general/copyright.html >| > > >==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== >#4 Chain letters, gossip, non-genealogical notes, commercial ads, pleas for help, etc. are >PROHIBITED on this List. -sysop > >============================== >Share your family tree with loved ones through a FREE private website at >MyFamily.com! >Get started today at http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWText1

Dear Sisters and Brothers, Here is something new at the National Archives. Use the below link to search the on-line NAIL. It's called the Wallace Rolls. Please read: Wallace Roll of Cherokee Freedmen in Indian Territory, 1890. 1 multi-page document from this series has been digitized. The digitized document is a schedule of names of Cherokee freedmen created by Special Agent John W. Wallace. Individuals on the schedule were entitled to share with the Shawnee and Delaware in the per capita distribution of $75,000, appropriated by Congress in October 1888, and issued under the supervision of his office. These records are held by NARA's Textual Archives Service Division Old Military and Civilian Records Unit (Washington, DC). Search Hint: To retrieve the multi-page digitized document, select the "NAIL Digital Copies Search Form" and enter Wallace Roll in the first Keywords box. http://www.nara.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=standard.txt&id=demo&pass=&OK= OK Peace be with you. Helen

Rucker was born in Danville March 4 1881,need the birth record to determine his mother & fathers names & birth dates. Rucker was my Uncle, he was of afro-american descent.

There is an interesting archaeology/genealogy report at http://home.dmv.com/~eheite/index.html "Delaware's Invisible Indians" and "Mitsawoket, the Community on Pumpkin Neck" There is good information about how the Native American/Moor people show up in the records. I found one Seeney in this report. James H. Seeney is mentioned as a church trustee on a deed in 1892 in Cheswold. When I looked up Cheswold, Del. on the Infoseek Map site, I found that there's a Seeneytown nearby. Go to http://infoseek.go.com/Facts?pg=maps.html&sv=IS&svx=liu_maps Enter Seeneytown, De in the search. Marge Green

Am looking for information/connections to SEANEY-SEENEY-SENEY families from the Kent County, Delaware, area. Thought to have Delaware Indian connections and were sometimes called Moors.

Hello, I had a computer problem and lost some things. If I owe anyone a look-up please let me know. Helen

Heya Listers and Regina, especially: I was looking at your message and enjoyed the way you wrote it. As a Tony Hillerman fan and a writer of articles for insignificant magazines, I was impressed with the way you put the words together. Of course, no matter how you put it, the life of a researcher for Native Americans is a tough one. Tom

Heya the list, I have been through every Native American roll in existence. My MORGAN family fell from the sky to Turtle Island. No one wrote anything down, and they threw away the family bible years before I came along (if there ever really was one) My only hope is to find someone not embarrassed to admit they are a relation. There are these stories, see, that would curl your hair. If you ask I will share, but I warn you they are not for the faint hearted. Some of them might even be true. Thanks for all advice and good intentions! Regards, Regina _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Hello List, I just subscribed to the list the other night. The next day Helen put a message on the list saying she would do look ups. I sent her the information I had on Annie Victoria KNIGHT. The next day she sent me the information she found on Annie KNIGHT. I could not believe in two days I had all the information I needed. This is wonderful and thank you, Helen. You are great. I also want to explain, the person that asked me to research Annie Victoria KNIGHT is a distant cousin. She does not have a computer. When she receives this information, she will be delighted. Thank you again. Sincerely, Ginger Pensel

Hello, I have received a bunch of request. Just to let you know I am working on them. For some reason I think about a billion people said "O, Helen has research to do, I think I'll go on line now." My computer is new but, I can't help it if everyone and there brother is online. I will try to get to all of your names soon. Peace be with you brothers and sisters~Helen

Heya the list, I am still hoping to find the missing link in my family to prove whether or no the story of Native blood in the family has any truth to it. I have little to go on. My great uncle told me he was teased as a boy for being "Indian". A cousin went to the dentist and was told she had "squaw teeth". When she questioned her father she was told "Ain't nuthin to be proud of". I have been unable to find any other MORGAN families in the area related to ours. At least none that will admit they are related. Here is the line as I have it. I hope someone can shed some light. Thanks, Regina Wilber Clay MORGAN, Sr. + Martha RIGGIN b.c. 1872 b. 26 Nov 1869 Wilber Clay MORGAN, JR. + Eulah May NELSON b. March 1892 b. 4 Oct 1894 d. May 1951 Lawsonia, Somerset Co. MD d. 17 Feb 1937 Lawsonia, Somerset Co. Mildred Marie MORGAN + Harold Burdett CULBERTSON b. 20 Aug 1921 b. 28 Oct 1905 Crisfield, Somerset Co. Milford, Illinois d. 28 Nov 1990 d. 8 Sept 1975 Somerest Co. Big Stone Gap, VA Be kind to your Mother (Earth) _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Hello Helen: My American Indian ancestors didn't go west, so they wouldn't be found on the Indian Rolls, unless some of their relatives went west; but I don't have even the siblings names of Martha O. DENTON and William SCOTT. I am interested in all the DENTON, MASSA and SCOTT names you run across. I don't have any proof of my American Indian ancestry, except that my Grandmother had black hair in her old age and she had the high cheek bones; plus, she would pick certain herbs to use as medicine. We lived in a house with no electricity, no running water, and an outside toilet. Using quart-sized milk pails, we carried our drinking and cooking water from a neighbors and the spring down in the commons. We had a couple of big barrels under the eaves of the house to catch the rain water that we used for bathing and laundry, after skimming the mosquito larvae off the top of the barrel. Grandma was one-quarter Indian blood - who knows what tribe - the way the Indians were chased off their ancestral homes and couldn't even keep their true identity, being merged in with other tribes and given the other tribes name, so your true tribe was covered up and forgotten generations later. Family tradition says that we were from the Miami tribe - but like the Miami Indian genealogist in Peru, Miami Co, IN told me - we couldn't be Miami, because the Miami Indians weren't from VA. My brother told me he thought we were probably Delaware Indians. That makes more sense to me, too, because some of them had settled in VA and the surrounding area after being chased away from their original homeland. Below are my American Indian ancestors: Martha O. DENTON, b abt 1800, VA; need parents, siblings, and tribal affiliation William SCOTT, b 1785, VA; need parents, siblings, and tribal affiliation Harriet MASSA, b abt 1790, PA; living ibn Silas and Mariah JONES' household in the 1850 Census ( Mariah Jones was a daughter of William and Martha Scott). Harriet is possibly a sister of William or Martha. William Scott, according to Kemper's 1889 "History of Delaware County, Indiana", was in the War of 1812. He acquired 160 acres of land and settled in Delaware Co, IN in 1836. He was a farmer. This is where he died 15 Jun 1860. William SCOTT and Martha O. DENTON married 13 Apr 1820, Greene County, OH. Yvonne Grimmer, one-sixteenth American Indian mailto:ygrimmer@jps.net ============================================================ ----- Original Message ----- From: Helen West <jhwest@ptialaska.net> To: <NATIVEAMERICAN-DELMARVA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 11:00 AMnames Subject: Re: Your names > Dear List, I would like to ask for people who know that they are Indian, > weather they can prove it or not, to give me the person's name. Please use > Caps for surnames. Then the approximate year of birth or marraige. Since > this is a subject very near and to my heart, I want to help others. Many of > us have stories we know to be true and are scorned by others. > > Now, down to work, I have access to the NAIL, as well as ancestry.com which > is more helpful than you know. So please send me your names and birth dates > and I will look for them in the Dawes Rolls, etc. Love and Peace to > all~Helen >

searching for any information about: Hester ROUGHCORN b 1779 in (probably Frederick) MD she married Daniel SHANER before 1798 and the family moved to westmoreland county, PA before 1807. need any info re: the ROUGHCORN name, Hesters parentage, HOW to try to search for her native roots in that time period.... thanks! che zuro whiting

Dear List, I would like to ask for people who know that they are Indian, weather they can prove it or not, to give me the person's name. Please use Caps for surnames. Then the approximate year of birth or marraige. Since this is a subject very near and to my heart, I want to help others. Many of us have stories we know to be true and are scorned by others. Now, down to work, I have access to the NAIL, as well as ancestry.com which is more helpful than you know. So please send me your names and birth dates and I will look for them in the Dawes Rolls, etc. Love and Peace to all~Helen

David Boles asked for information about John Cartlidge and William Wright. I don't have the Rupp's History of York County, to which I suppose you refer, but John Gibson's History of York County Pennsylvania (Chicago: Batey Publ. Co., 1886) indexes three references to Cartlidge : 1) p29:INDIAN AFFAIRS--John Cartlidge and James Hendricks "being interpreters and both skilled in the Delaware tongue" served as interpreters at the conference with Conestoga, Gawanese and Delaware Indians held at the meeting of the Provincial COuncil held June 16, 1718. Considerable detail is given about this conference, its significance and outcome. 2) p35--INDIAN AFFAIRS--Before York County was opened to settlement, John Grist and others settled there without any warrant or legal right. The Indians complained. "The Governor, with the advice of the Commissioners, judged it necessary for the quiet of the Indians , and to prevent such audacious behavior for the time to come, by a warrant under his hand and seal directed to John Cartlidge, Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, residing at Conestogoe, to warn and admonish John Grist and his accomplices forthwith to relinquinsh the land whereof they had taken possession. In case of their refusal the warrant required the Justic to raise the possee comitatus and to burn and destroy their dwelling houses and habitations." After Cartlidge so informed Grist, Grist traveled to Philadelphia to complain, where he behaved "in a very insolent and seditious manner" and was committed to gaol (jail). He later agreed to move and was released. 3) p48---PENNSYLVANIA- MARYLAND BORDER WAR--Championing the rights of Maryland was one Thomas Cressap. Maryland Governor Ogle complained to Governor Gordon (of Penna) that Cressap "was in great fear of other injuries from the behavior of the magistrate [i.e. Cartlidge] and other circumstances, and that some Indians said they were offered a good reward by one Cartlidge, of Conestogoe, to drive Cressap off his laand burn his house." This took place about 1732. William Wright is indexed to five places: 1) p181: REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE--Served as a private in the 30th Reg., (First Penna Reserve Corps), Company D--3 years service. 2) p186: REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE--Could not locate Wm Wright, but there is a William Waight [a typographical error?] on the roll of the 36th Regiment, Company C. Apparently a different man, as this unit also had 3 yrs service. 3) p327:SUSQUEHANNA AND YORK TURNPIKE--William Wright was elected one of twelve managers for the Susquehanna & York Turnpike Company on 7/23/1808. [It is not clear exactly what their duties were, but presumably they oversaw the construction]. The turnpike was a macadamized road from the river to York, which served as a toll road for many decades. 4) p499:BEGINNING OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD--"A kidnapping case at the borough of Columbia, in 1804, incited the people of that place to protect the colored. Race. The leader in this word was WILLIAM WRIGHT, A GRANDSON OF THE QUAKER EMIGRANT, WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS THERE. This plan was designed to allow escaped slaves at that early day protection from the 'slave-catcher', who came from Maryland and Virginia after them. This is what gave rise to the expression, "underground railroad," first used by one of the owners of human flesh, who could not find his game and declared there is an underground railroad somewhere." 5) P596: FOUNDING OF THE TOWN OF WRIGHTSVILLE--"Notwithstanding the early settlement of the locality, and the prominence attained by the ferry, the town was not laid out until 1811, and later. The part of the town known as Wrightsville containing 101 lots, lying between Hellam Street and Limekiln Street...was laid out by William Wright in 1811, and by him conveyed to Jacob Kline. Hugo Schroeder (Delmar, NY) hugoschro@aol.com ==== PAYORK Mailing List ==== POST - PAYORK-L@rootsweb.com UNSUBSCRIBE, PAYORK-L-request@rootsweb.com if DIGEST Mode, PAYORK-D-request@rootsweb.com

Looking for information on Isaiah Culver b-Abt 1755 in Virginia?, m-?. Enumerated in the 1800 USC of Washington Co,Pa as follows: m-45 yrs + - Isaiah f-26-45 yrs - wife-no name given m-10-16 yrs - Philip [my GGGG-grandfather] f-10-16 yrs - Anne m-under 10 yrs - John I belive Isaiah's wife may have been an Iroquois Indian [ told to me by my G-Aunt Wanda] If anyone is searching the surnames listed or has any information, please E-mail. Catherine Moss

does anyone know whether or not the name of SCURRY is Indian? I have always heard that my gggrandparents were Cherokee. Is there an Indian name that means SCURRY or would that have been their actual name? thanks

My grandmother's name is Rose Baker, she sometimes used the name Fuller,, I don't know why, But she was cherokee and i am trying to find her parent's names or her birth date and death date,, She married Albert Clarence Edward Condon, in maryland, date unknown, My father was born 1925, so i am thinking it had to have been sometime in the early 1910's or so,, there were several children,, Does anyone know this name or even possibly the condon name,, thank's, Debbie k's, Debbie

Hello. I am searching for Native American ties for the following families. Stanley, Thomas,Joseph,Sr. and Jr., Nathan and Julius Crews, Elizabeth Hilton,Catherine Moore, Mary--father,George Hall, Hannah--father,Abraham Sutton, Bessie--father,Gaston or Henry The Stanleys began in New Kent Co. VA before1689 and migrated to Guilford,Surry,Rowan and Davie Counties, NC. The early Stanleys were Quakers. Thank you and hope someone can help. Gerri Ann Stanley Lockman

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