Re: Cherokee In VA?
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Re: Cherokee In VA?
Elizabeth Ferguson 7/17/12
My father's parents had 14 children in all. Two died as infants, and of the remaining 12, 6 died from diabetic complications. My dearest aunt died in 2007, at age 99, of Alzheimer's, andjustplain old age. My eldest uncle, b. 1896, was the healthiest, but died in his late 80's. My father d. in 1988, at age 90, of a stroke.
The Fuller's were not Cherokee, even though they lived in Pendleton, SC among many mixed-blood families (Adair's, McCoy's, Thompson's, etc.). However, my grandfather Fuller's mother had a small bit of Creek, according to family lore.
Our Cherokee blood came through the Abernathy side of the family. It was not the earlier Abernathy's, but one of the allied lines that was the source. It could have come from David Abernathy's (father of Joseph. T.) wife, or one of the Mobley, Coleman, or Roe ancestors (all of whom had individuals who claimed N.A. blood). in any event, my grandmother Abernathy could not have been more than 1/4 Indian. My entire extended Fuller-Abernathy family know that they are part Cherokee, but some of my more narrow- and shall I say bigoted (not Fuller surname) 1st cousin's in AL, still deny it. The AL Abernathy cousins say they are "Black Dutch," which of course is a cop-out for being actually part indian. That is interesting, as David Nathaniel Abernathy's line has twice as much indian as my Joseph Robert's, asdavid N.'s wife, Millie Epperson had Cherokee blood as well.
I can remember my father saying: " Yore Gran'mother wuz Chair'kee. Now, the Ab'nathy's wuz preachers, an' they come f'om Tennesse, an' 'fore that, N'oth Calina."
OCF
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