This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Manson, Everett, Holland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DhB.2ACE/826.1.3.3.1.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for replying to my message, I just about gave up hope. Ü My gg grandma Zepora was born on July 24, 1898 to parents Lena Rollett & Nathaniel Brown (according to her birth certificate) I know that her parents were born or lived in Oklahoma, I'm just not sure where. I cannot find any information on the two of them. Anyway, Zepora had 7 children born in Marshall, TX. I do recall her telling me when I was a little girl that there is a lot of Native American blood in the family. I think she told me at one time, that it is Cherokee. She always had this long straight black beautiful hair which she kept in a bun on her head. She was married to a Brown whom she had her first child with Born Abena Brown-Wynn.(she was also born Brown there is talk in the family that she married her cousin, or other distant relative) She then later met, and married George Everett and they had 6 children Beatrice Manson, Addie (Bernice Brazil), Curtis Everett, Tellis "Ted" Everett, G! eorge Everett and Lee Everett. My g-uncle Curtis went on to play in the Negro Leagues with the Kansas City Monarchs. The only thing I really know about the Browns is that they are related to the Hollands. According to family talk, The Hollands were the slave masters, and the Browns were the slaves. We own the Plantation I believe in Carthridge, TX where we have theHolland-Brown reunion every year. I hear it's pretty big, and everyone I know in California who has family out that way knows about it. As fas as the Strickland name, this is my father's name. I am not married yet. His family according to my knowledge was born out in Oklahoma too. (I think) I really don't know about that side of the family. Let me know if anything here helps!! Hope to hear from you soon.. take care Ü