Re: delilah whitecloud
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Re: delilah whitecloud
Jan Hamilton 3/11/09
This is what I got on Delilah whitecloud Reynolds A ship captain,after a trip to India found a stowaway on his ship.He could speak no English,all he could say that they could understand was,I Elitchey.They gave him the name Elijah.The ship captain took him home with him to South Carolina and reared him has there son.Elijah grew up and married in wake Forest,North Carolina to a daughter of chrokee Indian Cheif Lalla washer.They had two daughters Ollaw Lalla and Oba LLau.A couple from North Carolina by the name of Reynolds had no Children.To make a long story short the couple was given Delilah and they named her renamed her Deliah Whitecloud Reynolds She grew up and married Jorden Reynolds in wake Forest,North Carolina they moved to Kentucky as a married couple her real father Elijah which was from India not American Indian moved to Kentucky to be near his daughter and died in Whiteville Ky in 1883 I hope this is helpful information