This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sanders, Salmon, Walkingstick Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BVB.2ACI/933.3 Message Board Post: Hi...I am descended from James and Elizabeth Salmon Sanders. I have in my research heard that James and Elizabeth's son, John L Sanders was also referred to as John Walkingstick of the Cherokee. The kin in my family who shared this info says it's because James and Elizabeth Salmon Sanders have been noted as the parents of both John L Sanders and John Walkingstick and since it is highly unlikely that there would be two John's in the same generation...think they are one in the same. Have you heard this story and if so do you have any information as to how and why he became a "Walkingstick"??