I'm looking for any info that might help me put together some answers re: the ancestry of my gggg grandfather, Abijah RICE. He was b. @ 1794 in what is now Cocke County, TN. He was a tanner by trade, and he enlisted in the War of 1812 in the state of KY. By 1818 he was in IL and MO Territories. According to our family tradition, he was Cherokee. He is described on his enlistment papers as having "grey eyes, black hair and a dark complexion." He lived among the Shawnee and Delaware in MO and took a Cherokee wife. Any info would be greatly appreciated concerning RICEs of this vicinity or about Cherokees in Cocke Co. Thanks, Doug Powers