My Great Grandmother Nancy Lawson was born in Hawkins County, Tennessee, July 1865. Not far away lived my Great Grandpa Pleasant Lawson, also born in Hawkins  County, Tennessee, in October 1862. They grew up there and married April 4 1882. They had children. Then Pleasant`s dad said let`s all go to Thornfield, Missouri. So off they all went. Grandma Leallie was born not long after they arrived there in 1893. Aunt Daisy was born in 1901. The kids all grew up and married. 
 Lealie married Joe Dilks and went to Oklahoma and had 11 children.  They then migrated to California by way of Arizona where they stayed for a couple of  years. 
 They both are buried in Madera, California.  Nancy and Pleasant stayed in Thornfield, Missouri. Both died after 1930 and are buried in Thornfield cemetery. Nowhere could I find Grandma Nancy registered as a Native American  but we all know she was!!! I will claim `Cherokee Blackfoot` cause my Granny  Leallie told me so and My Aunt Bobbie saw and slept with her when she was a little girl in Oklahoma when Grandma Nancy came to visit.  A sad thing I have found in my research, one of the questions on the census for Nancy was how many children have you born: 10, how many are living: 3. She was brave enough to  have
 another after that census.  I wonder how they all died!  Thank you Grandma  Nancy 
 Lawson.   
 !!!!update Aug 2006 I have been accepted into the Cherokee tribe here where I  now live . So have my Children and Grand Children. We must take time to learn  from our Cherokee Old Ones. For too many of us still pratice a culture of  strangers