Re: VIANNA REBECCA FAIRCLOTH, Decatur Co. GA
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Re: VIANNA REBECCA FAIRCLOTH, Decatur Co. GA
Karen N. Eitel 9/19/01
Karen,
About "Cherokee Indian" blood in our Faircloth family. Not one drop. Sorry 'bout that. I know that there is a current craze going round with a hankering for Indian ancestors but our Faircloths were too busy fighting them to get around to marrying them.
As for the Cherokee bit, over the years I have heard THOUSANDS of folk claim they were descended from "an Irishman (always one of three brothers from Ireland--why always three?) and a "Cherokee Indian Princess". Never
mind the fact that the Cherokee Nation did NOT have "princesses" or any kind of royalty. And never mind the fact that they were actually a small tribe in numbers. If they had married off as many squaws as folk today claim, they would have had to number in the hundreds of thousands and there would be no white folk today. We would all be Cherokee. You don't hear of anyone claiming Seminole or Muscogee (Creek) Indian ancestry. Only recently have some begun to claim Choctaw out in Mississippi. But this is a recent phenomonon. Even folk whose ancestors never ever lived anywhere close to the Cherokee territory will claim this. Among the 185 emails I have tonight, I have already read three wanting to know about their Cherokee ancestors. My Mama's first cousin did this Indian bit. When I showed her the records and proof we were white, she switched from her mother's family and made her husband's grandmother an Indian!! Concocted the most awful spelled name imagineable! Then tried to get a federal grant for being "Indian". There is a bunch in southeast North Carolina who have been trying to get recognition as an "Indian" tribe but the federal government has said no. They include negro Faircloths in Sampson County as well as some mulatto (negro and white mixed) Faircloths. Not one of these Faircloths have a drop of Indian blood. But folks have gone around and told them that if they "join", they will get big chunks of money. At least one white Faircloth joined the move for an Indian tribe in South Alabama. None are really "Indian".
My answer is: be proud of your English heritage and honor your real ancestors.
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