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I’ve been interested in some things I’ve read on the net that suggest the Saponi may be Blackfoot connection I and thousands of others have heard from our elders.
Like many people who lived in the late 1800s, my great-grandmother Elizabeth McGuire told her children that she was half Blackfoot or Blackfoot Cherokee (the story is told differently).
She was born about 1838. I’m not sure where, but she was an orphan in what’s now Phelps County, Missouri in 1850. Phelps would be on the trail between Ohio and the southern counties of Missouri where a lot of Saponi seem to have ended up.
Can anyone help me put the clues together?
Jim
Jim:
I did not want your query to get lost as it got bumped down with other folks (like me) asking questions. I did a search and found another person who regularly replies to this forum with the same name in her line, McGuire.
Brenda
Can you help?
Cindy
I’m afraid I can’t be of much assistance on the McGuire surname. There was in Pike Co. Ky James Collins md Rachel McGuire 1851. South Eastern Kentucky seems to be a hot spot for the migeration of people with the Saponi idenity around the trun of the 1800’s. Some settled there for a while along the Big Sandy River on border between what is the Kentucky/ West Virginia border today. Many of them left the area about 1835-38 migerating to Missouri.
Crystal was involved in a study of the Saponi settlements in the area of Kentucky and Ohio. She is the one to answer this inquiery.
Brenda
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