Re: Hannah Hale -
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Re: Hannah Hale -
Lindsay 12/09/11
Keep it mind, it was not Choctaw Indians Hannah was with.She was with the Muscogee Creek, so I doubt the Choctaw would know much if anything.I have a lot of contacts who are descendants of Muscogee Creek - which all descended fro Hannah are.One guy has been researching her for over 20 years. No one other than that Hale Organization and your cousin had any additional information.I've read everything I can find posted on line.I've been researching this all year, have bought the books, etc.There is very little documented about Hannah - just the same story repeated everywhere and none of it mentioning her white family other than one book referenced her going to visit them when she was in her 30s and they didn't want to let her return to the Indians, but she wanted to go back.It didn't say where they were that she visited or what relationship they were.And there is another account that says Far Off actually went with her and tried to live with her and her white family since the Creek men lived with their wives families anyway.But it said he didn't like living among the whites and finally told Hannah she could stay or go back with him, whichever she chose but that he had to leave.She went back with him.And that was the only account of that story I'd ever come across.Mostly everyone just posts the account Hawkins gaveBut you'd "think" that having Hannah taken by the Indians as a child would have been a serious enough thing in the family that her white relatives would have told that story down through the generations or written letters about it, or like you said - wrote something in the family Bible, something. She gave all her children "white" names, so I'm assuming since she was taken away as a child she was naming her children after white relative names she knew like Samuel, which makes since with what the Hale Organization guy said that her dad was named Samuel.She didn't name one of her sons John.So I'm paying attention to the little things like that too. You'd think when she visited her family, especially if Far Off went withher, that her children would have accompanied her to visit their white relatives.Why no one has any family stories or history about that is odd.I know if one of my chilren had been kidnapped, everyone I know would have heard about it and talked about it and it would have become a family story passed from one generation to another. The Hale family didn't do that. Most of us only even know about Hannah from what Hawkins wrote. And thank God at someone did write something about her so we'd have any information at all.It's even worse on Far Off's side.We don't know anything about his family history beyond his parents either. I have no idea who his grandparents were and haven't seen that anyone else has any information on that either.None of my Muscogee Creek connections know any more about it than we do.They're all trying to dig up more information on their families as well.Your cousin might be interested in the site I belong to - SE Muscogee Descendents, but she won't learn anything new there about Hannah. They know less about her than we do because they're researching other Native families than ours.She can register to view the site at this link:
http://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=s&htx=m&siteid=vgdjAIhttp://www.myfamily.com/isapi.dll?c=s&htx=m&siteid=vgdjAI