Jared Sewell in Columbia is doing 41 things including…

trace my Cherokee ancestry

6 cheers

Jared Sewell has written 2 entries about this goal

I'm getting close, I know I am...  — 5 months ago

It is either in the Van Buren County Arkansas Line of “Turney” or it is in the VBC Arkansas Line of Dollar or possibly it is in both family lines. There is some evidence of Choctaw in the Turney line as well as Cherokee.

This may be the saddest and most difficult of goals I will ever undertake...  — 5 months ago

Particularly as it involves learning as much as possible about the trail of tears where the last known full blooded Cherokee matriarch in my family is said to have died. I can only imagine the worst until I know more and so maybe it will help to know more, maybe not. Also, the trail of tears happened in 1838 and being 170 years removed from the event, it seems as though I may be chasing shadows from the start!

Jared Sewell has gotten 6 cheers on this goal.

 

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