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From: kay allen <>
Subject: [CHOCTAW-SE] Re: looking for choctaw ancters
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:47:57 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <20020303201446.1964.qmail@web21210.mail.yahoo.com>


kay allen <> wrote: my grandfather was james charles dorsey, he was born oct 9,1900 and died in jan 1972. we were told that he was choctaw, but we don't know alot about his family. he was married the first time to savannah mancel and they had two daughters: emily agnes dorsey and eloise idella dorsey. savannah mancel died and he married my grandmother vena (curtis) young, and they had 6 children, james charles dorsey, jr, mary magdalene, jesse thomas, shirley dean, mattie mae then my mother audrey lee. we only knew my grandfather's sister sally and her family.my mother said she remembers hearing about an grandmother hester, but we don't know if that was on grandfathers mother or fathers side of the family. i believe his mother's name was mary and his fathers name was john dorsey.he lived mostly with aunt eloise in lecompte,la., in rapides parish after my grandmother passed away in 1961.looking for any info, thanks kay


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