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From: "Mark Taylor" <>
Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Mark's great grandmother-in-law
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:00:50 -0500


Hello Izard List,

Guess I ought to introduce myself at this point. I'm Dona Taylor (yes,
another Taylor but I married into this family, can you believe it?!) Yes,
George, this is for you too. Anyway, I'm Mark Taylor's wife. I feel as if
I know many of you personally. Mark talks about his friends on the Izard
list a lot. All good, so don't get worried! In fact, you all are the
friendliest list I've seen.

I understand that Mark has asked for some help of you good people to find my
great grandmother. She is very elusive. I believe he teased you with a bit
of the "family story" and so I feel somewhat obliged to "tell it all"....

My grandfather, a wonderful man whom I love(d) dearly, told his children and
the grandchildren that lived near him that his mother was Cherokee. I've
no reason to doubt his word but I can't get my hands on anything that will
"prove" it. The story he tells goes like this.... My great grandfather
(John, so I won't have to keep typing great grandfather) married Columbia
Ann Henegar (my great grandmother, etc.) when she was 14 years old. Just
found out today that my Aunt has a copy of the marriage cert. Yea! Anyway,
according to my grandfather John bought her. Possible he bartered for her
or paid a bride price for her. At the time, he was working a store in
Tishomingo, OK (IT back then) and told Columbia Ann that she should pick a
name from the people who came into the store. Interestingly enough, on the
1900 Chickasaw Nation, there were Henegar's who were Merchant/grocers in the
Tishomingo area. I "assume" that that is where her surname came from. John
taught her to read and write - he was a school teacher at one point. There
first "home" was a dug out cave with a room added onto the front! Can you
imagine!

Now, since you good people excell at finding ancestors, let me tell you what
I have done so far. I've check the Dawes Rolls and other Indian Rolls. We
have a possible lead on the Guion Miller Roll of a John A. (John's middle
name was Abraham) Fox (yep, that's his surname) from IT that applied and was
rejected. He applied in Stilwell, OK (IT?) and the app said he had six
children. It's possible that this could be my John and therefore, my
Columbia. I'm not holding my breath though. We've had plenty of near
misses in this ongoing saga. Let me see, I've checked census data - not
much in IT. No birth records exist. The marriage license may give me some
info. I'm not sure where to go next. If she's Indian, she may not be
listed anywhere on anything. If she's white, I haven't been able to find
her. I have her death cert but it doesn't help much. Gives her birthplace
at Fort Smith, AR (she was born in 3-1870) but I didn't find her on the
census for 1870 or 1880 in Sebastian County. Nor any Henegars. I've been
told she may have been born in Stonewall, IT.

To make a long story even longer, I have a "cousin" that has given me names
of supposed siblings and swears that Columbia is not Indian. Well, at first
I believed her, but with Mark's proding, I have done some checking and find
all the children except two accounted for. Of course, not many of these
children have the same mother and father.... The two unaccounted for are
one that this cousin told me was an infant and died and the infamous
Columbia Ann. There is one child, Columbia's sister (possibly) whose name
was Martha Tennessee Henegar. She has a different set of parents altogether
and may not be in my line at all. But, how many Martha Tennessee Henegar's
could there be in the world?

Okay, so now that I have taken up waaaaaay too much of your time and have
either confused all or bored all, anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks for listening, I feel much better now, <sniff>
No really, thank you and please take care.

Blessings,
Dona Taylor (Jake "the Hammer"'s gggranddaughter)
-----Original Message-----
From: <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 7:25 AM
Subject: RE: [ARIZARD-L] Battles/Taylor Connection


>Mark,
>
>Well.....of course we want to hear more! ;-)
>
>Rosemary
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Taylor [mailto:]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:29 AM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Battles/Taylor Connection
>
>
>Bernie
>
>We've checked the Miller rolls and might have found her husband, John
>Abraham Fox. We've sent off for the full application to see if it is our
>John but haven't gotten the app yet.
>
>Can't get any census info because OK wasn't a state until 1907. Almost
>everything is in the possesion of the Oklahoma Historical Society and we
>haven't been able to go up there and search thru their archives. We had
one
>researcher volunteer to do some looking but she assumed, even though I made
>it clear to her, she assumed we were trying to find her on the Indian
rolls.
>We don't care where we find her, we just want to find her somewhere. When
>she didn't find her right of way, she bailed out. Bummer.
>
>My wife's grandfather told the story of how his mother was "given" (sold?)
>to her husband and how she picked her white name. Its very
>interesting...wanna know more?
>
>Mark Taylor
>
>
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