I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. I often get messages from other genealogists who are confused by the case of Lawrence (Alloway) Howery. And to be fair, the confusion is understandable—his life story involves adoption, name changes, and multiple family households. With some luck, this post can serve as a one-stop explanation. The next time someone asks, I’ll just send them here...
The person links below are to FamilySearch. Other links are to sites with additional information. American Revolution These men fought to liberate the thirteen original colonies from England between 1775 and 1783. Capt. Andrew Grant James Kenney California Gold Rush William Howe Horse thief Civil War Clergy Rev. Elmer Phillip Howery (?-1921), Methodist minister Colorado Gold Rush William Adams...
My dad was part Indian. Just what tribe and how much has been a matter of debate as long as I can remember. It seems as though there are a dozen different stories floating around my extended family. At some point I figured out the stories about Indian ancestry are concentrated around Rachel (Roberson) Horn, my grandmother’s grandmother. Rachel herself does not seem to have been Indian. The...
Rachel Roberson has consumed a lot of my genealogical research time. She is supposed to have been Indian, or perhaps part Indian. I’ve wanted to find some answers but now years of research have given me so much information it seems almost impossible to say anything helpful. She was Rachel (Roberson) Horne (1847-1944), my grandmother’s grandmother. More exactly, my father’s...
According to a tradition current among some of my cousins, my great great grandmother Rachel (Roberson) Horne (1847-1944) was Pawnee. I don’t think so. Nothing else points in that direction. I asked my grandmother Evelyn (Horn) Miller one year at Powwow about our Indian ancestry. She said she had always assumed they were Pawnee. A few years later she told her daughter Fern she had lately...