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Vance,
That is “strange” how our families although hundreds of miles apart share
such name interaction/exchange familarities. My Rixeys sold some of “my”, “their” bloodkin to Colberts,whom eventually “mixed” with that strain…
Like the land Colberts sold to you Richeys…..MMMMMM????
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Vance:
Your Chickasaw Colbert download is very interesting.
There’s a story in our family that the Colberts who owned Colbert’s Ferry in MS saw Jackson approach to get his militia across the river. Colbert admitted he charged Andrew Jackson double or triple the price he charged everone else protesting Jackson’s treatment of Native Americans. Jackson signed the contract and said the government would reinburse Colbert but he was never paid for ferrying the army across the river. This was his way of telling Andrew Jackson that he was a scoundrel and he knew Jackson knew what it meant.
And!!!!! my 2nd Great Grandfather, George W. Risner. b 1816 TN lived next door to the Colbert Chickasaw Family in Bryan Co., OK in the mid 1800’s, then the Choctaw Nation. I have a Great Uncle named after the Colberts – Atwood Colbert Risner. The Risners and Colberts were very friendly but I have found no direct relationship by marriage, as yet.
When I was in Mississippi on the Trail, I stopped at a little State Park building and began talking to the ranger there. He had files in the back room that included a family history of the Colburts in the eastern states but not much on families west of the MS. I remember his name was Johnnie. This was not too far from Colburt’s Ferry.
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