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From: "Al Allison" <>
Subject: Re: [TXFALLS] FYI-Lumbers/Lumbers/Lumberson's/Lumbertons
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:22:05 -0600
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>From NC Cherokee reservation site: Lumbee Tribe, Robeson County, NC. Area:
70 acres. Tribal enrollment: over 47,000. James Hardin, Executive Director.
Lumbee Tribe, PO Box 68, Pembroke, NC 28372, phone: (910) 521-8602, fax:
(910) 524-8625. The Lumbee ancestors were mainly Cheraw and related
Siouan-speaking Indians who have lived in what is now Robeson County since
the 18th century. The Lumbee people were recognized by North Carolina in
1885, and have been seeking federal recognition since 1888. Over 12 bills
have been introduced to recognize the tribe. In 1956, a bill was passed by
the US Congress which recognized the Lumbee as Indian, but denied the tribe
full status as a federally recognized Indian Tribe and did not entitle them
to BIA services as provided to other federally recognized tribes. The Lumbee
have also been called the Croatan of Robeson County, the Indians of Robeson
County, and the Cherokee Indians of Robeson County. The Lumbee Tribe is the
largest tribe in the state, the largest east of the Mississippi River, and
the ninth largest in the nation. The tribe takes its name from the Lumber
River.



----- Original Message -----
From: "darjean" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TXFALLS] FYI-Lumbers/Lumbers/Lumberson's/Lumbertons


> Hi,
> just some information that could help...
> Last week on the History Channel showing/talking about a Native American
> Tribe living in a region somewhere either in N.C. or S.C.
> that were attacked off and on during and after the Civil War by a group of
> Confederates accusing them of Helping Union soldiers get
> back to their lines, spying and other things.
> The name of these Native American's Tribe were Lumbersons or
> Lumbers/Limbers...
> and were slowly and gradually being killed off until a 17 year old became
> a leader and fought back. (the young leader's name
> escapes me, and I thought I could remember it)
> They dressed as other white settlers and lived like any one else of the
> times.
> I also read it on the internet in one of the Cherokee Native American
> pages.
> It gave the whole history of them including some genealogical family
> surname information.
> Good Luck!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Allison" <>
> To: <>; <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:14 PM
> Subject: [TXFALLS] Surnames Wright, Freeman, Meares, Dennis, etc.
>
>
> For what it's worth re this family group: Benjamin Freeman III arrived in
> the Carolina Section of Falls County in the late 1870s with his grown sons
> Jackson Marion (and family), Joseph Hays, and Benjamin O, his daughter
> Jenny, and Dwight Hays Meares, his son-in-law by his then deceased
> daughter
> Martha, and their son Forest Meares. They were part of the so-called
> "Lumberton Party," an extended family of 70 that immigrated from Lumberton
> NC in the early 1870s because of the devastation wrought by Sherman's
> March
> (first to New Orleans, then Washington County, Texas, then Falls County.)
>
> In their descendent lines, I have no Isophrena, but that means little,
> since
> I have no information on Benjamin O. Freeman's descendents.
>
> Given the YDNA comment on the Freeman's ancestry Perhaps of significance
> is
> the fact that Lumberton (Robeson County, on the South Carolina border) is
> reputed to have been an Native American area well into the nineteenth
> century. Benjamin Freeman's father and grandfather both owned land in the
> swamps of Robeson County, but I could find nothing about their origins. On
> the 1870 Robeson County census, Benjmain Freeman III's occupation was
> listed
> as "District Teacher."
>
> Benjamin's children Joseph Hays Freeman and Jenny Freeman marrie into the
> Lea family. They wee in-laws to Isaac Dudley Wright and his wife Mary Lea.
>
>
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