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May 21, 2011 at 8:59 pm #4158
It has been a pretty good while sense i postedc here, first off i forgot my password lol.
Well i guess in getting the itch again with the geneology stuff. To bad i have all my stuff that i need at my fathers back in alabama.
So im wonderring if any of you may have info on a Ellesider Rogers or Rodgers born about 8/1832. is is supose to be half Creek and half Cherokee. She married Isaac Caleb Driggers born around 1822 in south corolina.
I have read different things on the internet that the Driggers last name was Melungeon .So is the surname Rogers or Rodgers also.
i very nice gentle man sent me a pic of Ellesider and Isaac and you can tell that she was Indian there is no dening that. the pic was coppied from a metal plate.
they say that Ellesider dad may have been Noah Rogers or Rodgers. This is from my mothers fathers side of the family but i have Rogers/ Rodgers on my mothers mothers side also and im wonderring if there is a connection. im sure that my mother has some indian in her from her mother and some spanish maybe. Her mother was a rogers her dad was Lafayette rogers im not sure but i think his grand mother was joahanna or maybe that was his mom. wonder if there is a connection with Ellensider and Joahanna? My mothers family were from Coffee and pike co al, so were her dads people the Stewarts.
any kinda help would be great. also am i right in thinking that the Melungeon people are a people that tri racial or in other words of three different races? if im wrong please exsplain it to me.
May 21, 2011 at 8:59 pm #35968What I’ve gathered about Melungeons is that there is no definite answer, as the term was used to describe different kinds of people in different places. Sometimes they were tri-racial, sometimes it seems they had a bit of Middle Eastern/Semitic admixture, some we know had a Saponi base that married in with others. There’s been a lot of hoopla, debate, controversy, but the best I can make of it, they’re all right, in their own neck of the woods.
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