This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Effie Willie May Simmons(Maiden name) Perry Elliott Coulter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FEC.2ACE/909 Message Board Post: I am trying to trace my Mother and Father and their Ancesters My Mother was a Cherokee Indian and my Father Perry's Mother was a Cherokee Indian, her maiden name was Susan Smith, she was married to Pierce Coulter, my Father's Father. Pierce was white. Susan and Pierce died together in 1903. My Father was put in an Orphans home at age two. Something happened to Effie's parents and she lived with a Mills Family for a while but she kept her name.I think she was on the 1910 census as Effie Simmons. Perry and Effie had five children, Elliott Perry, Corine Margaret, Elizabeth Mary,(died in 93) James Samuel(me), Harry Allen. We range in age from 80 to 67. Perry died in 1937 and my Mother remarried some time later to a Bill Sowells and had a baby girl which killed her in childbirth. We do not know her name or where she is. If anyone has any info. on these people please let me know. Thank You!