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From: Thelma Faye Prince <>
Subject: Re: RE JOSEPH SORRELLS-ARKANSAS
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 21:09:58 -0400


bwise wrote:

> The Sorrell I am looking for lived for a while at least in Tennessee,
> and
> could have been married to a Cherokee Indian woman. I am in touch with
> Neale
> Sorrels, who wrote in to this exchange, and it looks as if our
> families are
> related. We believe that William Sorrels, born 1-28-1823 in Tennesse
> and
> Joseph Sorrells, born about 1826 in Tennessee are brothers and Frances
>
> Sorrells is a sister or at least close kin and Lewis and Henry Andrew
> Jackson Sorrells are also closely related, maybe Brothers. Almost all
> of
> these people named a son William, so it is likely that the fathers
> name was
> William. Neal reports that this father died at the age of 41.
>
> Does anyone know of any cherokee Indian marriages? This family was in
>
> Missouri in 1845 and in Arkansas in 1850.
>
> Bertha Wise

Bertha, I have the address of a descendant of Henry Andrew Jackson
Sorrells, b. Feb. 1839, Missouri, d. abt 1920, Love Co. Okla. He came
to Ok abt 1860, and Married Elva Paralee Moody on 18 March 1874, Cooke
Co. Tx. {This is what the letter says. David Bennett, 2124 Grape Court,
Okla-City, OK73129. This correspondence came in 1986). His wife was b.
1851, TX and she died abt 1918 In Love Co, OK. He says Henry's first
wife was 1/2 Chocktaw, 1/2 white. It is not clear which wife Elva was,
but only her name was given. All the children of Henry and Elva, 10 of
them were born in Leon, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. David
thought Lewis Sorrels of 1850 Crawford Co. AR. census was or might be
Henry's father, but Lewis would only have been 16 when Henry was born,
so could have been his brother. If you cannot find David Bennett at that
address now, let me know and I will send you copies of the letter and
the family group sheets he sent me. Thelma Prince

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