Jan & David Faulkner wrote: > > Patricia, > > Welcome to the list. We have had others searching the Nevils line related > to Geo. Wash. Nevils and Mary Sutton but no information that Mary and her > family may have been Cherokee. What led you to suspect that heritage? > > Jan > > At 09:02 PM 12/16/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Seeking data on VA/TN family of MARY SUTTON, b. 5/10/1818, d. 7/1871, > >daughter of Thomas Sutton and Hannah Lawson. Mary Sutton was first wife > >(married 10/29/1840)to my great-grandfather, GEORGE WASHINGTON NEVILS, > >b. ca. 1810, d. 6/29/1913. WERE MARY AND HER PARENTS CHEROKEE INDIAN? > > > > > >==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > >Visit the Neville Heritage Society Home Page: > >http://www.prairienet.org/neville/ > > > > > > ==== NEVILLE Mailing List ==== > Please do NOT send attachments to the list. Jan, A cousin told me Mary Sutton, first wife of George Washington Nevils b. 1810, and her parents were fullblooded Cherokee. I don't have info to support this. I'll ask him where he got the info. He also said we were descendants of the Melungeons, but I don't know where or how. Cousin seems to have a lot of material, but I doubt if I'll ever see it. He had a typed document, probably from handwritten copy, about my grgrandfather, George Washington Nevils. Parts of it didn't agree with my information, and I really believe mine is correct. My dad visited his grandfather, GW Nevils, as a child. He inherited $100 from him when his grandfather died in 1913. There are descendants of this Nevils family that I believe would never admit to being part Cherokee Indian. Thru the years, comments have been made that there was Indian blood in my family. Melungeons: A doctor asked my niece once if she was a descendant of the Melungeons. Her traces of anemia indicated this, so the doctor said. Does that tell you anything? Pat O'Neal