When I began working the Sellers lineage of my mother, I found where one of the cousins, Nathaniel Sellers married a Schrimpshire girl and her sister married an Indian Chief Dennis Bushyhead. I have several of those branches !!! In the Sellers case, the Sellers and Andersons already had Indian blood in their line from their grandmothers of North Carolina 1700s. The Scrimpshire father, Martin, had married a Gunter who was full blood Cherokee and they all resided in Guntersville Alabama. One of the Gunters married a McCoy girl but then I found one of my Fenn grandfathers did also!! Mrs Fenn then named a son Travis and he married a girl only known as ?Mary?. which might be another clue.

Then I looked for the parents of Martin Schrimpshire and found his mother was listed online as ?Edith Kona Edna Vann? - lo and behold another famous Cherokee name, which is where I need to study their hometown known as Big Joe Vann?s Spring Place in Georgia.

My own grandfather Cecil Fenn Carter said they were Cherokee and I managed to locate his sister Carrie in Choctaw Nation Oklahoma.  Carrie's husband Ben Johnson was born in Indian Nation, Texas but his mother was an indian from Alabama and his father "denied" her the right to join the Rolls. Ben's mother was America Mills of Alabama, who signed an affidavit that she was full blood indian, but her husband had always called her a white.
My grandpa Joe Stephens was married to a Sara Mills.

Carrie and Cecil had a brother, Frank Jr., who called them "half" siblings so maybe Mr. Carter was the father of them - we will never know !  There are many Carter families online researching their Cherokee blood.  What we do know is that William Fenn born 1855 in Tuskegee Alabama married Anna Lou Stone in 1893 and she left him about 1900 to remarry, but she joined her family in Macon Georgia.  Anna's Uncle Charles Stone named his sons Tecumseh and Osceola.Also when I studied my daughter's Westbrook family, I found their great great grandfather named a son with his second wife, Osceola.