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Ok, since I’m stuck on my family line (Wimberley) that is supposed to have the ‘Blackfoot’ connection, and because I keep getting surprised by being told that lines I assumed to be Anglo are surnames that in other families often have NDN connections, I’m just gonna go fishin’ and see if I get lucky.
I’m wondering especially about the ancestry of the wives.
MY MEEKS
Mary Ann Meeks born Tippah MS 1825/6 married Thomas Jefferson Hughes in 1845.
Her parents: Nathan Meeks (b.1802) SC married 1822 to Sarah C. Jones (b.1801, GA)
(Sarah is daughter of William (b. 1775, GA and died in TN) and Mary Jones)
Nathan is son of Nacy Meeks (b.1768/9 VA) married in Surry Co, NC in 1790 to Frances Holt (b.1770, SC)
Nacy is son of William Meeks (1725 VA, died SC) m.1750 in VA to Molly Noblin
William Meeks is son of William (b.1699 VA) and married in 1724, England?
You’re begining to scare me now, Hana!
Sure, the Wimberley/Dance’s could be NDN.
So ARE certain lines of MEEK/MEEKS, HUGHES & JONES.
Don’t rule out the NACYs either, altho I don’t know for certain where that leads.
Remember the “RULE” ………
There’s never just one Injun in the haystack.
🙂
Bill; I wonder if there’s a Virginia connection of these Meeks to the Meeks of Drennon’s Lick Creek of Henry County Ky. I once traced a sideways route in their genealogy to the Poythress family.
These Meeks were neighbors of the Greens and Roberts families. Both Greens and Roberts are Native American but just what tribes is still yet to be determined which points, in my opinion, to a very early migration from their tribes.
Dan.
Originally posted by Bill Childs
You’re begining to scare me now, Hana!
Sure, the Wimberley/Dance’s could be NDN.
So ARE certain lines of MEEK/MEEKS, HUGHES & JONES.
Don’t rule out the NACYs either, altho I don’t know for certain where that leads.
Remember the “RULE” ………
There’s never just one Injun in the haystack.
🙂
Well, darn it, I believe my Grandpa about those Wimberleys, and you’ve said enough about like marrying like, especially back in those days when everyone knew your Pappy, making it that much harder to pass…. (Another clue for me is that none of this folks did like settling down. MOST of them seemed to be born, live and die in 3 different states — and this was true even when they had a highly ‘successful’ progenitor, like my Zachariah Wimberley, who apparently had no siblings or parents :rolleyes: ) I’m just analyzing the characters, putting together the socio-political info… ok, jumping to conclusions!
Ps. you forgot Emery and Gregory, both of whom appear out of nowhere, both from Indian Territory. That’s another thing… they seem to go into or come out of indian territories BEFORE any treaties are signed. The Hugheses do it in SC, the Wimberleys, Vaughans, Birds and Mays are early into northern NC from VA. My Hugheses and Jacksons and Moores may be Tradin’ fools… but what about the rest? Or am I just blowing smoke, here?
Btw, the Wimberley relative I met online who’d been looking for Zachariah for 26 years and never considered NDNs or other FPCs, wrote me back once about the upcoming prez election and once more to say that none of her other family cronies, including one named Jerry Lewis, had ever HEARD of such a thing as an Indian in the family tree (though she said it much more genteely), then stopped responding to my email. 😮 😎
(Think I’m jumping to unkind conclusions there?)
Originally posted by Dan Akin
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These Meeks were neighbors of the Greens and Roberts families. Both Greens and Roberts are Native American but just what tribes is still yet to be determined which points, in my opinion, to a very early migration from their tribes.
Dan.
I think it was Bill who mentioned there being Greens in my family tree, I think by way of the Vaughan line.
(Btw, this is way too recent but… you reminded me that my great-grandma in Texas on the Gregory line, had a close ‘friend’ named ‘Black Eye’ Roberts, who was supposed to be Native-American. Apparently she was a friendly lady… and I’m trying hard to find her exact marriage date and my Grandma’s exact birthdate.
Have been wondering if there is a reason that poor Grandma could never gain her father’s favor, and for why Great-Grandpa insisted that we, his only descendents, call him ‘Uncle,’ instead of Grandpa or anything like that. Never seemed to like us much. I just thought he was a mean old man, but maybe he had his reasons. It’s too bad there’s no one around to ask, but the up side is, there’s no one to be hurt by my finding out, either. )
Originally posted by Dan Akin
I once traced a sideways route in their genealogy to the Poythress family.
These Meeks were neighbors of the Greens and Roberts families. Both Greens and Roberts are Native American but just what tribes is still yet to be determined which points, in my opinion, to a very early migration from their tribes.
Dan.
I’ve started to see Poythress on sideways routes, too. And hear about Greens.
Nacy may Not be the father of our Nathan Meeks, who married Sarah C. Jones, as it turns out. Some family researchers have tried for years to make the connection, as he is nearby and may be some kind of relation. But… having just gotten a family book with some pics…. (Yeah it’s not proof). there are photos of Sarah Jones and her daughter Mary Ann Meeks. (none of nathan, unfortunately.) Sarah looks like a typical English or German round-faced, small-featured, flat and soft faced woman with pale skin. Her daughter, however, has strong bones and features, and much darker skin, very unlike her mother — presumably like her dad. And I find myself wondering, again, why we have another relative with those features, whose parentage we can’t trace despite nearby folk with the same surname, and some 20 years trying. (But again by folks who seem unlikely to have considered NDN ancestry.)
Very early migration from our tribe seems likely.
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