Correction
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In reply to:
Re: Susannah Cloninger Johnson
Phyllis Kinzalow 9/12/10
Speaking of getting the names mixed up. Jacob Cloninger, Sr. didn't marry Margaret Leinberger. That was Junior. Jacob, Sr. married Elizabeth Clemmer who, in actual fact, was not a Clemmer. Her father's name was William M. Hancock. It's possible that he (Hancock) was partially Cherokee, but I have no information on him so I don't know. He was out of the picture when Elizabeth and Molly were probably still just toddlers and they were raised with their mother's first husband's name. Even if he was, Jacob, Sr. and Elizabeth still would not have had any full-blooded Cherokee offspring since Jacob was definitely not Cherokee.