[email protected] wrote: > > A book entitled "Jacksons White Plumes" by Charlotte Adams Hood chronicals the > exploits of a Richard Ratliff who lived among the Indians with slaves. He had > an Indian wife and he and two of his sons known as the "Whooping Boys" helped > Gen Jackson and David Crocket during the Indian wars of 1813-1814. He > furnished them with supplies and his place served later as a post office for > the region. He was suspected of being an escaped Tory but Jackson strongly > defended him. Anyone know who this gentleman is. He and a son Richard Jr. who > also married an Indian disappeared about 1835. Did they go on the Trail of > Tears? > > ==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== > If you'd like to search the List archives, please visit > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Type in Ratliff and go from there. We do indeed have some Cherokee cousins named Ratliff who found themselves in Oklahoma. A powow held this past year was to gather all the Cherokee Ratliffs still in the east to the reunion. They had all the Ratliff given names but were not too successful. These cousins were all descended from men named Ratliff who were traders in the Cherokee Nation. Gary Radcliffe