Re: Osborne Indian Blood
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Re: Osborne Indian Blood
Lee Osborne 11/10/01
We may have located the Native Ancestor as being Martha Cothron, Who is definitely an ancestor. She is said by Ruth Ann Blevins to have been Cherokee (See Adkins Genforum).
She was 5 generations back from my grandmother, As my Mom had heard in the family lore. M. Cothron married Peter Skaggs who's family were called "The Long Hunters". They all had connections to Native Americans.
We are talking the 1700's so there may be no documentation, Yet Ruth Blevins seems to have all this written down in her possession.
I have heard the "3 Brothers" tale as well. Yes there may be made up stories in families. I have heard a few on my Watts side as well that I find are actually too "Stupid" to be real.
But the story on the Osburn side of my family seems to be panning out as truth.
There is also the Royal Line story in the family. This is being researched. On my Adkins side/Parker side. This is on LDS type files, FTW I believe. Which I do not trust anything of the sort. So it is being gone over with a fine tooth comb to verify.
But our family's "Oral History" has yet to be found wrong. As most of the stories we heard were found to be true. The only thing that we find in "Oral History" is that it is often found to be twisted around a bit, people do not remember it quite right, Or it is on the Maternal side. Such as with Martha Cothron and Peter Skaggs.
One doesn't always have the "Trunk in the Attic", and paperwork does not always exist on ancestors. Even with my Grandfather who died in 1946. He was buried in basically a pine box, Others back in the 1700's may have only been buried wrapped in a feedsack or something. So this is the reason why DNA is not always a help as you suggest. After a few hundred years one buried in such ways may not even be there anymore. And locating the graves, even those buried in the 1900's isn't always that easy as with my Grandfather.
I am not being "fecesious" here, Just showing that some of our "Oral Histories" are not always fabricated. And that sometimes the stories are the best way to find out Genealogical information.
It is highly unlikely that most researchers called their parents, grandparents, etc. liars. They usually start on the "Family Oral Histories" in their family research and find out whether or not they are true or not. And then Pass on what they have learned to those who told the stories.
Stephen L. Garen
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Lee Osborne 11/16/01
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Stephen L. Garen 11/16/01