Headstone has the wrong date of death. The headstone was placed years after his death.
May be part American Indian 1/4 or 1/2. Very hard to read on the Census. Source Joyce Evans.
8-3-2000 E-mail from Arlie Strong, "William Elisha Evans was also my great grandfather, mom an her brothers and sister and grand dad Norton said that grandmother Caroline (Evans) Norton was one half Choctaw that her mother Ester Lavina Jane Maddux was full blood. Grand dad Norton told me that they also said, William Elisha was black dutch and according to our Cherokee Nation black dutch is Cherokee, but I had never heard how much Indian blood he had. They told me it probably would have been quite a lot for him to claim to black dutch."
Arlie is Deputy Chief with the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, and Pastor of an Assembly of God Church.
May be part American Indian 1/4 or 1/2. Very hard to read on the Census. Source Joyce Evans.
8-3-2000 E-mail from Arlie Strong, "William Elisha Evans was also my great grandfather, mom an her brothers and sister and grand dad Norton said that grandmother Caroline (Evans) Norton was one half Choctaw that her mother Ester Lavina Jane Maddux was full blood. Grand dad Norton told me that they also said, William Elisha was black dutch and according to our Cherokee Nation black dutch is Cherokee, but I had never heard how much Indian blood he had. They told me it probably would have been quite a lot for him to claim to black dutch."
Arlie is Deputy Chief with the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, and Pastor of an Assembly of God Church.
Headstone has the wrong date of death. The headstone was placed years after his death.
May be part American Indian 1/4 or 1/2. Very hard to read on the Census. Source Joyce Evans.
8-3-2000 E-mail from Arlie Strong, "William Elisha Evans was also my great grandfather, mom an her brothers and sister and grand dad Norton said that grandmother Caroline (Evans) Norton was one half Choctaw that her mother Ester Lavina Jane Maddux was full blood. Grand dad Norton told me that they also said, William Elisha was black dutch and according to our Cherokee Nation black dutch is Cherokee, but I had never heard how much Indian blood he had. They told me it probably would have been quite a lot for him to claim to black dutch."
Arlie is Deputy Chief with the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, and Pastor of an Assembly of God Church.
May be part American Indian 1/4 or 1/2. Very hard to read on the Census. Source Joyce Evans.
8-3-2000 E-mail from Arlie Strong, "William Elisha Evans was also my great grandfather, mom an her brothers and sister and grand dad Norton said that grandmother Caroline (Evans) Norton was one half Choctaw that her mother Ester Lavina Jane Maddux was full blood. Grand dad Norton told me that they also said, William Elisha was black dutch and according to our Cherokee Nation black dutch is Cherokee, but I had never heard how much Indian blood he had. They told me it probably would have been quite a lot for him to claim to black dutch."
Arlie is Deputy Chief with the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory, and Pastor of an Assembly of God Church.
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