This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/1042.1045.1068.1078.1 Message Board Post: I am not sure of any relation, but my gggrandmother was Catharine Wells Ivy, she was born in Henry Cty, VA in 1830. Her parents were Joel Wells and Sarah Tarpley Wells from Pittsylvania Cty, VA. We always heard that through this line we were related to Cherokee. Catharine married Nelson Ivy and he died early, not sure how. We thought that he was our connection to the Indians, but not sure. Catharine and Nelson moved to Surry Cty, NC. She later married some man by the last name of Niston. We met some of the Niston's but they did no know or favor the Indians. Our family is also related to the Johnson familieis in NC and probably received some Cherokee blood there. The physical characteristics are more than evident in our family. I did not see a Effie Wells but they could still be related. I pulled a family treemaker genealogy report once off of the internet by Christine Bullock and it is the lineage of Barnaby Wells and his family in the Henry/Pittsylvnia counties of VA.