Crystal, I will send you all the web sites I have, pay attention to the links also! thanks again, I have little knowledge also, well beyond the war they had when they split off from the rest of the Cherokee! If I forget to do as I say REMIND ME!! After all I'm a man! LOL ! Neal Shrum block@thurston.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crystal Burleson" <cburleso@cybertrails.com> To: <STARR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:54 PM Subject: Isbell/Starr > To answer where I got that information, it came from p. 62 of "The > Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided" by Horace > R. Rice. He is writing about various families and says: "Although Dr. > Isbell went for white, he, like many central and southwestern Virginia > Cherokee, may have had both European and Cherokee ancestry. The Isbells > in Appomattox, Oklahoma, and North Carolina have Cherokee family > traditions. The Isbell surname is a traditional Cherokee family name > (Starr)." > Neal, you mentioned that you have always been interested in the Tsalagi > and the Chickamauga peoples. Do you know where I can learn more about > them? I am having a difficult time finding resources, even on the net > about them. Thanks. > > Diana, I don't have proof either that Adam was born in Virginia. All we > really have to go on is the 1850 census and I don't know why he wouldn't > have told the truth about it. I'm just, for now anyway, assuming that it > is true. It also has that his first several children were born in Ohio > and then a couple in Indiana before they moved on to Missouri. If you > look at a map of Botetourt Co. VA in 1770 (you'll find it at > <www.rootsweb.com/~vaboteto/bote-org.htm>) you'll see that that one > Virginia county included all of the southwestern part of Virginia, > nearly half of West Virginia on the south (until 1863), all of Kentucky > (until 1792), a good size chunk of southern Ohio (until 1803), nearly > all of Indiana (until 1816), and mostly all of Illinois (until 1818). > Interesting? I think so. I means that possible they could have lived in > an area and not moved at all and still have been in several states over > the years. HMMMMM? > > Gotta go. Tell me what you think. Crystal >