Hi Gene, My computer crashed a few months ago. My son was able to retrieve one of my large files but I am still scratching around working to fill in the many blanks. I don't remember writing to you before but that could be my memory glitch. If you wrote and I did not answer, I apologise. There are as many opinions on old Nathan Kirkland as there are researchers and as varied. Cheesquire, 105 NC & his wife Naca, 100 NC are listed on the 1870 Cherokee Co. NC census in the Cheoah Twp, PO Valleytown on 7/12/1870, as # 102 living with Jesse Featherhead 65 NC & children. All are listed as Indian. #/s 29-32 are some of my Millsaps relatives # 54-69 are my Williams, (my ggg gps are here) Millsaps & Kirkland/Giles relatives. #96-97 Millsaps, Hooper. # 108 & 110 Williams & Caringers. # 69 are John Jackson (the Bushwacker) & Julia Ann Giles Kirkland. Julia is my gg aunt, the sister to James Madison Giles, my gg gf. James M. Giles son Thomas E. married Sarah Caroline Kirkland, dtr of Jesse. Giles & Kirklands on my gf, George W. Giles side. Williams & Millsaps on my gm, Mary Williams Giles side. I have seen all the Cherokee Applications pretaing to this Kirkland heritage. Nowhere & no one says Nathan is also known as Cheesquire. It was never said as such til Paul Long saw a drawing that was "suppose" to be Cheesquire . The drawing was most like the copy we have that is "suppose" to be Nathan except it is reversed. Paul wrote a "supposition" because of the likeness, could they be one and the same person?? I refuse to believe that all my relatives who lived in that area at the same time of Cheesquire would not have know their own gg gf lived so near them but was known by another name. He was not named a chief in any of the NC history books. The monument was placed to Cheesquire many years after his death as an honor to him. It was placed by a couple of local Cherokee Co. men. I had a copy of the article that was written in the Graham? Co. newspaper. Only God knows where it is now. In one of these many boxes would be my guess. Please let me know how you come in this line. I work at including as many of Nathans decendants as possible in the Kirkland file. Also any lines connected with them. I hope this helps. Blessed Be, Jo Ann Giles