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This is interesting as Needham M.Cowart, b.1746 in Johnson Co.,N.C., d. Barnwell Co.,S.C. 1818, had for a first wife, an Ester Phoebe BLOUNT, b. about 1760, m.in Johnson Co., N.C., d. about 1793. There has always been an oral tradition in the family that E.PHOEBE was at least part Native American, if not full Native American.
I think I've heard Cherokee mentioned, but her having come from N.Carolina, one would have to think it would be more likely that she was Tuscagora. (See the connection with this tribe and Chief Tom Blunt/Blount.) The Cherokee didn't live in N.Carolina, not that that absolutely rules out her being Cherokee, it just seems more likely that she would've been Tuscagora with the name Blount, but perhaps it was just because the Blount family was so close to that particular tribe, and the fact that the chief in that area eventually changed his name to theirs.
E. Phoebe's Lee descendants from her marriage, and most likely some Blount relatives (definitely some Cowarts) migrated to S. Carolina, Barnwell Co., then Georgia (Early Co. was a big one), briefly, and then on to Hancock Co., MS on the Gulf Coast, where some stayed but others moved up into south central MS, and still others moved into Texas.
It is just fascinating to me that yet another family name, Blount from my ancestoral lines, in addition to several Lee and Cowart lines, has this same tradition of a Cherokee ancestory for a Blount. Could be a coincidence, but makes me wonder.
Perhaps the best approach will be to see what, if any, connection there is between your Francis Marion Blount and our E.Phoebe Blount Cowart of N.Carolina, and go from there. At least that way we might be able to figure out the oldest common ancestor about whom the question of native American ancestory might apply. Hope this makes sense.
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