This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WARD, FIELDS, DELAWDER, MASSIE, NELSON, MCNIGHT, COOPER, WINGAD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wdB.2ACE/217.1 Message Board Post: Verna Louise WARD is now 85 yrs old and lives in California. She is the daughter of William Walter and Minnie Louise (COLEMAN) WARD. Verna is the only of their 3 children who is still living. She says she was told that her father's mother, Elizabeth (Lizzie FIELDS) WARD was born (in 1872) to a native american mother and was adopted as a child. Elizabeth FIELDS was raised in Lawrence county, Ohio. Verna, now blind, vividly remembers seeing a photo of Lizzie as a child with her native american mother. Is it possible to find documentation of a native american adoption that took place in 1872? Please contact Mary K. Ward, 1432 Yeardley Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23225. Ph 804-232-9338. Thanks.