In a message dated 6/14/2003 5:51:52 AM Mountain Daylight Time, annerhai@adelphia.net writes: > I'm not a descendant of that line, although there may well be a connection. > My line is through Betsy Walker, said to be full-blooded Cherokee. Her > daughter Elizabeth married Edward "Ned" Leatherwood, and they had a daughter who > married my 4gr-grandfather Benjamin Hyde. His son John Aaron Hyde was born in > what was then Burke County (probably now McDowell) and settled in Swain > County where he farmed and raised his second family which included my > gr-gr-grandfather Samuel Hyde. > > Thank you for your response to my post and for clarifying your connection to Walker and Leatherwood. Phyllis