Re: KENNEDY line and Native American Indians mentioned in an e-mail embedded at the end of Message 2 below: You've triggered my interest by the KENNEDY notation. My wife's paternal grandmother was JESSIE KENNEDY (b. 28 February 1899--died 28 March 1930 of pneumonia...buried in Peace Chapel Cemetery near Scott's Hill) and was part-Native American (visible in her photos). Jessie married FONZO EDGAR HENSLEY (b. 27 March 1896--d. 12 October 1969). JESSIE'S parents are JOHN JACKSON KENNEDY (b. in TN, 9 July 1847--d. 5 March 1937) and SARAH HENRIETTA "ETTA" O'GUIN KENNEDY (b. in TN, 30 October 1872--d. 27 March 1953) from the Scott's Hill area of Decatur County. They are buried in the Peace Chapel Methodist Church (the church is just a chapel now) Cemetery near Scott's Hill, Decatur County, TN. There are many KENNEDYS in that area today and one cemetery near the old Doe Creek school is almost all KENNEDY burials...I'm not sure if they're all related. Further tracing JESSIE'S Native American ancestry, her grandparents are WILLIAM H. O'GUIN (b. 7 June 1842--died 9 December 1883) and FRANCES SWIFT O'GUIN (b. 2 June 1845--died 18 September 1926...buried in the Scott's Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery). JESSIE'S great-grandparents are REV. ROMULUS SANDERS SWIFT (7/13/1818) and SARAH SALINA PAINE SWIFT (b. in NC, 24 July 1814--died 9 September 1906...buried in unmarked graves near Scott's Hill). They appear to be full-bloodied Cherokees in photos. REV. & MRS. SWIFT established the Scott's Hill Methodist congregation in 1840 when theirs ox cart broke down in Scott's Hill while making their way to Texas. The people were so good to them during their tenure at Scott's Hill, they aborted plans to continue on to Texas and remained to establish the church. Their photos and obituaries may be found in the JOURNALS of the Memphis Annual Conference (ROMULUS' in the 1889-1890 JOURNAL and SARAH'S in the 1906-1907 JOURNAL), located in the Methodist Archives of the Luther L. Gobbel Library, Lambuth University, Jackson, TN. Russell N. Gallimore, Jackson, TN Message: 2 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:31:11 EDT From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNWEAKLE] Speaking of Indians in Weakley Co. To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" My Williams family of Weakley also claims Cherokee lines. My grandfather, Lawrence Virgil Williams, was born in 1865 and claimed to be one-eighth Cherokee. His father, Lawrence P. Williams, came from N.C. through East Tenn. and was a skilled woodsmen as well as farmer. He died in 1905 and though the entire family accepts the Indian heritage as truth we do not know if it came from the Williams or Cashion line. I also have an uncle named Finis (Finis Buton Williams born in Weakley around 1911. It would figure that with NC so close and the Trail going through TN, there is more to this than some families want to admit. Bobbie W. In a message dated 8/11/2010 11:30:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: My family story included the Indian female but she wasn't an Indian Princess like most say. Our is based on a picture we have of my great great grandmother. On the back is written, "This is Mama and she was one-half Indian. Daddy's family disowned him for marrying her." I have no idea what her name was or definitely what my great great grandfather's name was. We think his name was Alford KENNEDY of Finis KENNEDY since my great grandfather named his two boys Alford and Finish and that would follow family tradition. It has been my great roadblock on that side of my family. My great great grandparents, which includes the part-Indian, died between 1870 and 1880 and my great grandfather, Cenus Hardy KENNEDY, was taken in by a Baptist traveling preacher named HALL according to what my grandmother told me but I haven't found proof of that too. Does anyone have anything in their family which would fit in with this? Leslie