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This information supplements my message #4312 on this board.
From information in my correspondence with Lo Moss Moore, deceased, formerly of Hurst, Texas, verbatim, as she received it from Don Wilson (now deceased; see further info below about him):
Per Don Wilson's letter: “Great Grandmother Nancy Elizabeth Cannon said she was ¼ Cherokee Indian. Said her mother was named Huldah Hood (or Hoad). Believe she may have said her great grandmother or grandmother and in passing down the story lost the grand.” [Census shows wife of Russell E. Cannon, father of Nancy Elizabeth, as Elizabeth – could Elizabeth be a 2nd wife of Russell E.?]
“Nancy E. b. 1832, could not read or write. Spoke little – recited and sang ‘From the Hills of Habersham to the Valley of Hall’ for her small grandchildren.
“She sang a Cherokee Indian song to the tune of ‘Away Over in the Promised Land’ – Her grand daughter, Bertha L. Powell, writes it as it sounded:
‘Heigh-Hi Ho Nitchie Natchie
Poly Go She Previe an She [another typed version gave it as: Poy go she provie an she]
Prag a Natif Flow’
“Nancy E. said she married at 15 ‘for a home.’ Census dates vary three years concerning her age, no real proof which is right.
“Married 2) she said 1850 near Pendleton, SC. She is listed in 1850 Gordon County, GA, census, a widow [Nancy Wooten], living with her sister, Huldah Rich, who was also a widow. Huldah Rich also married a Powell, Cyrus Powell, brother of George Marion Powell. They were sons of Josiah and Seely Powell, living 1850 in Gordon County, Ga., with a place of birth listed as SC.”
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Lo Moss Moore wrote me [CG] in a letter of 26 Aug 1993 that Don Wilson, descendant of Nancy E., died in 1979.
Donald Curtis Wilson, b 7 May 1922 in Ellis Co., TX; m 15 June 1940 Mary Bonita Halford. He was a son of Jesse Elijah Wilson and Bertha Lee Powell. Bertha was the daughter of Harleston Lafayette Powell and Savannah [unknown]. Harleston was the son of Nancy Elizabeth Cannon. Nancy married (1) Miles Wootten or Wooten & appears to have a daughter, Mary, b c1849, with him, and married (2) George Marion Powell, and had children Milly O. b c1851, Lilly A. b c1854, Victoria Clementine b 1855, and Harleston b 1860.
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