Posted By: Mary Harris Johnson
Date Posted: Apr 27, 2009
Description: Back Grant & Balzada
Front Eb, Lennie Mae & Balzoura
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Owner: Mary Harris Johnson
Dorothy Campbell - Apr 27, 2009
Mary,
Some great photos. Thanks so much for sharing with us all these wonderful photos.
Billie Harris - Apr 27, 2009
Wonderful photo, but I'm confused. Are these all siblings? Sitting is Ebenezer (born ca 1770), Lennie Mae and Balzoura (born ca 1868). In the back is Grant (born ca 11779) and Balzoura (born ca 1886) -- per the 1880 census for Andrew S. and Nancy (both born ca 1836). When was Lennie Mae born? If this is "Cash Up's" second family, was he married before he married Nancy?
Do we have Andrew and Nancy's genealogy on the site somewhere?
Dorothy Campbell - Apr 27, 2009
Lennie May was born Nov 13, 1892 , the daughter (only child) of Balzoura and James William Webb.
Balzada was born Feb 12, 1877 in Bell Co, TX & died April 11, 1955 at Riverside CO, Hospital in Riverside, CA..
Billie Harris - Apr 27, 2009
Just found some information on Ancestry and it says Lennie Mae was a Webb so that answered my question. Thanks, Dorothy.
Grant was born 1879 and died 1940, Sarah Balsoura was born 1872 and died 1953. Ebenezer was born Jan. 25, 1876 and died Nov. 26, 1955 in Los Angeles.
Another question. If these were the children of Nancy McDonald, who was the mother of James, Almire, John, Campbell, Sherman and Effie shown in the 1880 census with Balsoura, Ebenezer, Balzada and Grant and, of course, Andrew and Nancy?
And did Nancy have some Indian blood? The ones in the photo do look like there's some Indian in them, at least to me they do.
Mary Harris Johnson - Apr 28, 2009
Sarah McDonald was the mother of the first family. Three months after Sarah's death Anderson married her sister, who had been living with them.
Resa Miller - Apr 28, 2009
I agree, someone must have been Indian, at least part. I have Indian blood in 2 lines on my dads side but haven't found anything on the internet to verify it. Only other family members that said it was passed down by word of mouth. From what I understand, a lot of people tryed to keep it quiet. I guess not everyone looked on it favorably. My ggrandmother Louisa Delilah Lewallen Watts moved from Tn. to Cherokee Co. Ok. with her husband and children. There was quite a few other Watts' there and lots of indians.
Great photo.
Billie Harris - Apr 28, 2009
Resa, somewhere in the information I've found on the Indians, I remember vividly one with the surname of McDonald. When I have a chance, I'll look for that and post it. May not have anything at all to do with this particular family, but I know I've seen it before.
Mary Harris Johnson - Apr 28, 2009
We haven't been able to find the Indian blood either. We think it comes from the McDonald's. I only have seen a picture of Nancy McDonald and she sure looks like she has some in her blood.. Maybe someone out there has a picture of her sister Sarah McDonald. There was a John McDonald way back that had something to do with the "Trail of Tears"
Larry White - Apr 28, 2009
Sarah and Nancy's mother was Lakie Jeffers and father was Allen Mcdonald (as far as I know)
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Dorothy Campbell - Apr 28, 2009
Family of Balzada Lewellen Anderson & Robert Dowling Anderson.
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Mary Hubbell - Apr 29, 2009
We haven't figured this out: We have found the following comment from 1999 at usgenweb/scott co:
LEWALLEN, BURKE, REED
I am researching my families connection to the Cherokee Nation. I am told that NANCY LEWALLEN, daughter of JOHN LEWALLEN and DELIAH REED, was of Cherokee descent. NANCY LEWALLEN married HAYDEN BURKE who led a number of wagon trains out west. I was told by my uncle that a chief named JOHN (?) knew her and was trying to get him to regester our family in the Nation rolls. Chief JOHN has since passed away. If you can help me at all I would greatly appreciate it.
Suzi Sweeney
John Ross was the Cherokee's chief during the Trail of Tears and Civil War. His mother was Molly McDonald. Nancy Lewellen died in the Choctaw area of OK in 1879 which was before it was opened to white settlement.
We haven't found a connection, yet.