This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sweat as a Cherokee Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdQBAEB/288.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Christy, My paternal grandmother was Easter Katie Sweat, married Joseph Thomas Johnson, had 13 children. She was full Cherokee, a chief's daughter. I have been searching and yours is the first reference I have found to Sweat as an Indian Surname. Do you have any ties in the Sweat line in Georgia? Easter was born in Alpheretta, Ga and died in Atlanta, Ga in 1927. My dad was her youngest child and she died in child birth with him. All I have with her name on it is his birth certificate, I have not been able to go back further than her and Joseph. Are there any connections here? Pam