Can anyone help me? I am lost, trying to find some information about my grandfather. I have the marriage papers where he married my grandmother in Polk County in August 1923. And I know he lived in Polk County, in the Ducktown (Buzzard's Roost) area. HIS grandparents on his father side was on the Trail of Tears and received a check from the government. His name was William McKinley Burns and he married Alwayne Brookshire, as I said. He worked for "the Copper Company", and came from Kentucky. He died in Kentucky in either 1931 or 1932 of TB. I don't know if it is because he was Cherokee or part Cherokee I can't find nothing. His mother was a Smith from Ducktown. I want to buy the 1900 census but I don't have the address to send my check, OR I will be in Polk county next week. Is there a place I can pick it up. Thank you for any help you might give me. Sincerly, Sonya Weaver Daniel