This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LOWERY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/787.1424.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Sorry, I just caught the last sentence where you asked about Indian ancestry. I had always heard that George Lowery was from Scotland, from my grandmother, who would have been George's great-granddaughter (she has a photo of her grandmother, Elizabeth "Betty" Lowery), but one of the other Lowery researchers wrote this: " It >also appears there were at least 3 generation of George's. That is >interesting since George seems to be a favorite name in the Cherokee Chief >George Lowrey families. " And she wrote: "There was a Cherokee James Lowery who had a reservation/land grant in Tn >just above Chattanooga. Some time before they started rounding up the >Indians for removal he left with his family and did not collect any money >for his land. He just left. Others who did take the money were forced to >move to Oklahoma. With the money they were supposed to "start anew"." I have no idea how these Lowery's tie into the Sumner Co Lowery's or the Ill. Lowery's or if they really do or not. Sandy Key