This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZcB.2ACE/346.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am researching my maternal gradnfathers family. His grandfather was a John Ford who fought in the Civil War. John had a daughter named Frances (sp?) who married Robert Carver. My grandfather said that his grandmother was an Indian, so I assume that John or Robert married a Cherokee. Any help you could offer is appreciated.