Pictures to Share

[Patty]

I've set up a web page with some pictures that I have of my more Indian looking ancestors. I don't have a clue if they actually have Indian ancestry or not, but I thought I'd share some pictures anyway.

I can't put my hands on a picture of my Dad or paternal Grandma right now, but they both have the Asian eye fold characteristic. When I find those pics I'll put them on the site and repost the link.

Our family lore says we are descended from Mary Polly Boone, who was the Indian 1/2 sister of Daniel Boone (there is no official documentation of this, but there are tens of cousins that all learned the same story).

Mary Polly Boone Couch had a daughter named Mary Polly Couch, who married John Campbell of Wallen's Creek, Ashe County, NC. I am directly descended from 3 of their 14 children (that I know of---could be more since I don't have lines on 9 of the 14 and all my Campbell's kept intermarrying)

Hope you like the site! :)

Patty

http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~pattyb/MyPhotos

[vance hawkins]

good to make your acquaintance Patty,


Your ancestor in my opinion (for what that's worth) is American Indian, from that photo. Reminded me of my grandma Hawkins and great-grandma Richey her mother.

vance

[Patty]

Thanks Vance, for sharing your opinion with me. I've contacted a Cowan cousin who is sending me 15 pages of information on our line of Cowans. I'm looking forward to seeing what she has to share. :)

[smparham]

Patty,
Thank you for sharing your pictures. I agree, your family certainly look like they are American Indian. You are so lucky to have so many treasures.
Shirley

[Patty]

THanks Shirley :)

The pictures are pretty recent discoveries. Some of them I've been sent by generous researchers and newfound cousins I've found on the internet.....Some of them are pretty close relatives but due to divorce, or other situations I've never met them.

Actually, that's how I ended up trying to trace my family tree to begin with. My immediate family was always kind of isolated. We didn't really know "our people".

There were too many blank holes and vague references. In grade school one of my teachers had us do a family tree and I was always curious about certain lines because of the answers I DIDN'T get from my grandparents.

According to my grandparents, nobody knew anything about certain ancestors' history and we are Scots, English & Welsh, and well yeah, we might have a little Indian in us, but nobody knows anything about that stuff!

Guaranteed to make a kid curious!

[Dan Akin]

Patty;
I have often wondered at any Native American connections in the Boone family.
Living here in Boone County Mo. I know that many Boone descendants have settled here and many continue to live here.
I would like to share a few things I have heard and read, but understand that I offer no documented proof of what I write. These are just legends.
Nathan Boone, in the Draper interviews, said that his father, Daniel, had been part of the Wautaga settlement and had leased land from the Cherokees. Also, during this time, he is reported to have hunted buffalo with the Cherokees and created friendships with them. (I have seen this written in Boone biographies.)
I also have heard a story, which may have no element of truth, that Jemimah Boone, the daughter of Daniel, had struck up a relationship with a young cherokee by the name of Hanging Maw.
After Boone moved his family to Boonesborough in Ky., Jemimah and two of the Callaway girls were out gathering reeds, by the river, to make baskets, just like the Indians used to do, when they were captured by Hanging Maw and some of his Shawnee friends.
Jemimah is reported to have dressed the long hair of Hanging Maw at this time. After the girls were located and rescued by Daniel Boone and his friends they were married off immediately to men at Boonesborough.
The legend states that the girls turned up pregnant not long after their capture.
Jemimah married Flanders Callaway. The Callaways are an old Virginia family that also have legends of Native American descent.
In the War of 1812, here in Missouri, the descendant of Jemima's first daughter, Captain James Callaway, was killed in battle with the Sac and Fox on the Loutre River in Montgomery County. Callaway County Mo. is named in his honor. In the Callaway County history Captain Callaway is described as having black eyes and black hair and was "erect as an Indian."
I have actually met a man here at the historical society that claims he is descended from two of Daniel Boone's brothers and their cherokee brides and I have read that Daniel had claimed to have been "married in the Indian way several times."
Now I know that the Boone's fought with the Indians and some of them died, but you can also find history books that tell of the Boone's Indian friends. An example of this is the visiting Daniel did in his later years with the Shawnees at Owen's Station in St. Louis County Missouri.
I know this could be like opening a can of worms, and I don't mean to offend any Boone descendants in any way, but there are some connections to the Boones with my Native American families. Without the facts, though, this just makes for an enteresting story.
Dan.

[Linda]

Jemimah is reported to have dressed the long hair of Hanging Maw at this time.

That's an evocative image. Sounds like something you'd see on the cover of a Harlequin romance. Maybe I have already . . . ;)