Dorice- one of the Dawson researchers I had sent the information to still had it! YaaaHoooooo! No more digging frantically for me- I am going to go ahead and post this to the list in case there are other Central Texas family researchers who tie in somewhere- Becky Cockrum > Samuel Dawson, their earliest known ancestor, was born in South > Carolina, 1784. He met and married Polly Ann Rogers who was a daughter > of John Rogers and Anna Pruitt. Polly Ann's father, John Rogers, was of > Scotch-English descent and a Tory Captain for the British Army who > fought in the Carolinas in the Revolutionary War. After the war he > settled in Tennessee and was called "Hell-Fire Jack" by the Cherokee > because of his flaring temper. He lived about twelve miles south of > Calhoun, Tennessee, on the Hiwassee River. A wealthy Indian Trader, he > had boats plying on both sides of the Hiwassee and Tennessee Rivers. > Captain John Rogers married three times to women with Cherokee blood: > Elizabeth Emory, Anna Pruitt, and Jennie Due. From his first marriage > descends three of the Cherokee Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation of > Oklahoma. Chief John Rogers Jr., Chief of the Western Cherokees and > Grand Saline: Judge Charles Coody Rogers; Chief William Charles Rogers, > last chief of the Cherokee Nation. One fo the five children from his > third marriage was Talahina or Tiana Rogers who was married to Sam > Houston, the president of the republic of Texas and the sixth governer > of the state of Texas. > Hell fire Jack,s second wife, Anna Pruitt, also known as Alsey Vann, was > half Cherokee and called "Sinee" by the Cherokee. Captain John Rogers > and Anna had only one child, Polly Ann Rogers, who was born in 1787. > Polly Ann and her mother both spoke Cherokee fluently. Polly is > pronounced "Wa-Wli" in Cherokee because ther is no "P" in the Cherokee > Alphabet. > > This is just some background info.