This waaaayy out on a limb but I'll throw it out anyway. Awhile back a distant relative asked if my grandmother's family had Native American relatives. I said I doubted it because most of us are fair skinned, freckled and have either brown, dark brown or red hair and then forgot about it until now. My grandmother's maiden name was Piercy and if you let your imagination run wild Pierce could be pronounced Pierc E. She also had long black or very dark brown hair. Now her grandfather came from either Caldwell or Burke counties. Her mother was a Mauney (various spellings apply). Grandma was born in 1899 the last of her parent's children. No one ever mentioned anything about Native Americans but given the generation they wouldn't have. Well, enough on this goose chase. Cynthia Bolick Gilbert