Daughter of John Andrew & Sarah Weatherman Matthews. Wife of Richard Henry Hill married March 5, 1846 in Taney County, MO.
Story has it that Mary was full blood Cherokee Indian.
She was an orphaned child found on the Trail of Tears by her parents, John & Sarah.
There is no documentation of this nor is she listed on the Dawes Rolls. This is a story given at a Hill Family Reunion in Oregon. It is the only plausible story that I've ever heard. The time frame and location that her parents were traveling from Illinois to Missouri coincides with documented Trail of Tears routes. They would've traveled sometime between 1832-1834.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/northern.html
Native Cherokee DNA does not show up on DNA tests as Native American.
I tested myself and my grandmother. Several other descendants have been tested as well.
http://first-americans.com/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/
https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm
looking at the facial structures of Mary and her son Wiley .. there no denying they were Native American .. but we will never be able to prove it.
Arkansas Death Index shows her dying in Crawford County.. not Sebastian County as previously stated
Story has it that Mary was full blood Cherokee Indian.
She was an orphaned child found on the Trail of Tears by her parents, John & Sarah.
There is no documentation of this nor is she listed on the Dawes Rolls. This is a story given at a Hill Family Reunion in Oregon. It is the only plausible story that I've ever heard. The time frame and location that her parents were traveling from Illinois to Missouri coincides with documented Trail of Tears routes. They would've traveled sometime between 1832-1834.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/northern.html
Native Cherokee DNA does not show up on DNA tests as Native American.
I tested myself and my grandmother. Several other descendants have been tested as well.
http://first-americans.com/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/
https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm
looking at the facial structures of Mary and her son Wiley .. there no denying they were Native American .. but we will never be able to prove it.
Arkansas Death Index shows her dying in Crawford County.. not Sebastian County as previously stated
Daughter of John Andrew & Sarah Weatherman Matthews. Wife of Richard Henry Hill married March 5, 1846 in Taney County, MO.
Story has it that Mary was full blood Cherokee Indian.
She was an orphaned child found on the Trail of Tears by her parents, John & Sarah.
There is no documentation of this nor is she listed on the Dawes Rolls. This is a story given at a Hill Family Reunion in Oregon. It is the only plausible story that I've ever heard. The time frame and location that her parents were traveling from Illinois to Missouri coincides with documented Trail of Tears routes. They would've traveled sometime between 1832-1834.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/northern.html
Native Cherokee DNA does not show up on DNA tests as Native American.
I tested myself and my grandmother. Several other descendants have been tested as well.
http://first-americans.com/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/
https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm
looking at the facial structures of Mary and her son Wiley .. there no denying they were Native American .. but we will never be able to prove it.
Arkansas Death Index shows her dying in Crawford County.. not Sebastian County as previously stated
Story has it that Mary was full blood Cherokee Indian.
She was an orphaned child found on the Trail of Tears by her parents, John & Sarah.
There is no documentation of this nor is she listed on the Dawes Rolls. This is a story given at a Hill Family Reunion in Oregon. It is the only plausible story that I've ever heard. The time frame and location that her parents were traveling from Illinois to Missouri coincides with documented Trail of Tears routes. They would've traveled sometime between 1832-1834.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/northern.html
Native Cherokee DNA does not show up on DNA tests as Native American.
I tested myself and my grandmother. Several other descendants have been tested as well.
http://first-americans.com/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/
https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm
looking at the facial structures of Mary and her son Wiley .. there no denying they were Native American .. but we will never be able to prove it.
Arkansas Death Index shows her dying in Crawford County.. not Sebastian County as previously stated
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