[Totsuwah]

My family is the Wrights,Peytons,Burtons from Virginia to Monticello Ky area, I’ve already noticed some “kin” on here, cant wait to open some doors! Ive always been told I have Melungeon, Chichamauga Cherokee, and Scotch Irish! What a mix!Thanks for letting me join In, Aho!

[anitabingamon]

Hey Totsuwah!

I think you may have posted me before, but your Wrights and Peytons sound like my line. I tried posting you back but had some computer issues and couldn’t post you back. Don’t know if you got my post or not.:confused:

My dad’s mother was a Logan, whose mother was a Meeks, and whose mother was Elizabeth Wright, who married Hiram Meeks. That is how I am related to the Wright Line that we share. My grandmother had photos of whom she called “my people,” who were in NA dress. My mom always tried to tell me that those pictures were of the type, where tourists pose with the Indians for a few dollars, but as my husband is also into his Lakota/Sioux heritage, has a book where the pictures look familiar to me – something that tugs at the memory. I have a cousin who was my grandmother’s favorite, whom Granny showed those pictures to, also. Unfortunately, Granny’s pictures may be in the hands of one of her two older daughters, who has an iron grip on them and is unwilling to share, which is a shame.

I have often wondered if Hiram Meeks was Blackfoot instead of Elizabeth, because I cannot find a thing on Hiram. Just a thought 😉

Anyhow, how did your visit to KY go? I hope you found out a lot or enough to keep you going in your genealogical search. That was sad, your grandfather not wanting to tell you he was Indian. But his fears were pretty legitimate, since during the time of Andrew Jackson, it was illegal for slaves or Indians in Virginia (that I know of for sure) to have any personal properties or rights like voting. Although things may have gotten more legally lax after the Civil War, the “stigma” of not being White took a long time to go away. In some areas, unfortunately, that attitude towards mixed bloods like you and I, still lives.

My mom’s family, who claimed to have some Cherokee blood claimed not to know what they were or where they came from, and just recently, we are making discoveries on that side of the family tree. While growing up, I encountered real and pretended ignorance about where my Mom’s dad’s family came from as well as some pretty wild tales which have been proven not to be true – at least for the Hall branch of the family. I am still trying to find out where the Cherokee on the Moseley/Mosely/Mosley side of the family comes from, and no luck – yet. 🙁 I may look on my Alford/Halford side of that branch 😀

I don’t get on this site very often, except when I have some replies to some of my posts – busy with other things. It is good to meet another cousin 🙂 .

Best wishes on your findings. Hope you had a good trip.

Anita B., aka “Sparrow”

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