Re: Roe Family in Ky./Chickasaw Indian
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In reply to:
Roe Family in Ky./Chickasaw Indian
John Hibbitts 3/05/99
David,
Family story in my family is that my gg-grandmother, Lucy Ann Roe Lemmon Prier was a Cherokee Indian, she was born 29 Feb 1828 in Greene Co., IN and was the widow of Abraham Lemmon and then married my gg-grandfather James Prier on 12 Aug 1855.We have not been able to prove this as her death certificate says she was of the white race, but back then there were only two other choices.An 1870 census of Crawford County, Illinois listed her father, Andrew Roe, born in VA and her mother, (I have no name for her mother) as being born in KY, but both were listed as foreign.Back then if you were american indian you were not considered an american citizen.I have pictures of Lucy Ann Roe and she certainally looks american indian and this trait has come down through the family.I think her father, Andrew, might be the son of John (Wroe) Roe and Sarah ____?Do you have any information that could help me?Oneita Brimberry