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From: "April" <>
Subject: Re: [NativeAmericanDelmarva] Hair that doesn't turn gray?
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:26:21 -0700
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> Hi April,
> Couldn't help seeing that your husband is part Cherokee, Monacan
> and Black Scotts.
> Is your family members of the Monacan Nation?
>
> Maybe your cousin,



No they aren't...not many are even interested in finding their roots...I
started looking into my husband's family in 1977 but never got very far
until recently...he had a gggrandmother Elizabeth McCanleby Herron who was
said to been a full blooded Monocan who was adopted...her husband Garrett
McCauley was suposedly full blooded Cherokee also adopted...the pictures
that I have seen bear the indian blood in her...but I can't be sure of
him...he had a full beard...did indians grow beards?...I am ignorant of such
things...the names included in the line besides the McCauley and Herron is
Ross, Craig, Shifflett, Brown and Fisher... these are the main names that
reoccur frequently...how do I find out more...the area the first two came
from or atleast grew up in with their supposedly adopted families was the
Randolph County area of WV...the descendants are scattered from there to the
present day Augusta County VA....I would really like to know more....the
phyiscal features and coloring for the most part is as follows...the men
under six feet or just at...barrell chested...big toothed and long round
faces...spindle legs with bellies...tendency towards heart disease and
diabetes and arthritis...dark complexion that tans beautifully...near black
hair with red highlights...mainly brown or green eyes...out doors men for
the most part...the women are small and dainty when young with the dark hair
and eyes....they get rounder as they age.. prolific breeders...my husband is
one of 17...My mother in law can sing to me a beautiful song in an indian
tongue that her grandmother would stand on the porch and sing...and it is
truely enough to bring goose bumps to hear...the melody is like none
other...she said that Polly could be heard a long ways off when singing this
tune...these are and were mountain people...moonshiners...hard living people
of the earth who have many superstitions and legends...the more I learn the
more I want to learn...the oldest ones have died off and I only have paper
records to look to now....

April in VA

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