Cathy, Who knows, maybe he did have Indian blood. My Indian story, concerns my Daddy's Indiana family. That elusive GGGrandmother I can't find before 1865. I do have a picture of her, and I guess she could be some part Indian, but the only relative who actually remembered hearing her asked abt it, heard her deny she was any part Indian. She is Daddy's mother's mother. Well, on his Dad's side they never claimed any Indian blood at all. Now, some of the daughters of this GGGrandpa passed down the tradition that they were Indian. I don't know his wife's last name, and she was most likely from KY. The funniest part, is Mama never claimed any Indian blood at all, and she could have passed for one, or an Italian, or Jewish, or any Mediterranean heritage. Someone asked her once if she were Gypsy! Someone overhearing it said," No Mrs. Basham is Italian." Which she was NOT. LOL She said she was English, Irish, and Dutch. Well, were she here, I could tell her she was English, the Dutch was German, and I have not found that Irish yet, unless Bryan is one. She was my Taylor, and she thought her grandpa came from England. He came from Alabama! I looked again for your Thomas J. Taylor. I looked for Thomas, Jefferson, TJ, T, and I went to Ark and looked there. I went back and checked Stewart Co TN again. So far no luck. He may have just got left out. I will think of something else to try. Carleen