Tracing Our Family Roots
Step by Step
Branch by Branch
Making a genealogy webpage...
Researching each surname
Locating them on census records
Ordering certificates and licenses
following the path of our elders along their journey naming each of their children usually after someone very special and dear to their hearts We get to know each of them, one by one.
Learning about Martin Weatherford's Creek Connections.
Locating my grandpa Carter's sister, Carrie, in Indian Nation
Line Creek was our favorite childhood swimming hole and it was quite historical for the Creeks.
Grandma Cochran's DeathCertificate. Grandpa had to turn the machines off.
Dad's cousin Dorline heard that their great great grandpa John C. Wright was Indian per her communications with another cousin Martha Hawes. Our John Wright married Catherine Weatherford, a daughter of Charles and we all know that Chief Red Eagle was a son of Charles Weatherford.
Martha had tons of genealogy from her mother Laura Little Hawes who researched the Indian Princess in our descendancy.
Center of this picture is our common grandmother Lattie Little of Kentucky and family lore is that her father JohnWright Little refused an Indian Land Allotment. John was the son of Hiram , who was the son of Jonas. The Little family is recorded and discussed in the History of Kentucky, and the History of Green River, as well as the DAR.
Grandma Lattie Lattie's mother was Catherine Crigler and her mom was Catherine Roby, all in Kentucky about 1800.
Another of Dad's great great great grandfathers Archelaus Parker served in the American Revolution and had his connections to the native americans as well, including Starr, and his son Wanton Parker migrated through Michigan Territory to Iowa Territory and is mentioned in the History Of Iowa.
Mom's Grandpa McClain's death certificate must have been filled out by one of his children because where it says Mother, they added Lorena, his wife and the dates are mixed up and the location of Dublin Church Cemetery which is in Dublin, not in Prattville. But that was a difficult time for all since he had been hit by a car.
Lorena had a great grandmother Lavinia Sellers, who had a cousin Nathan Sellers, who married a cherokee Scrimshire, residing in Pine Level, near Dublin, and they named a daughter Louvenia. The Scrimpshire families lived among many indians and married indian chiefs, many recognized by the author Emmett Starr.
Lorena's mother was Alice Lorena Stephens and when I began researching her lineage, I was contacted by a cousin, Clyde Stephens, who authored a book about the Stephens Family of Ramer and sent me copies of pages confirming his research of the Stephens having an indian grandmother. Clyde said many migrated into Florida, then into Panama, starting a banana plantation in the 1800s.
When I studied the indian rolls at www.accessgenealogy.com, I found several of these cousins had registered, including the first wife of Charles McClain's father. Charles' daughter Emily McClain married into the Fenn/Carter/Stone lineage and I found where our John Fenn had a sister named Letitia. Lettie married Thomas Rich and that family is on the indian rolls as well - but not my great great grandfather John Fenn.
