>>3933654Your reading comprehension is miserable and your understanding of the history of the southeast is obviously lacking. People didn't move cross-country alone. Whole kin groups moved. There are blocks of families that intermarried between themselves for generations all over the place. Tracking their geneology gets very complicated very fast, because many names are passed down multiple times to one generation of cousins, unofficial adoptions took place when a parent died and the kids went to live with aunts, uncles, or grandparents, and then you have the aspect of polygamy and wife-sharing that was common among both mixed border families and mormons (I descent from both)
I mentioned the story of that 4th great grandmother to illustrate that my known family history is *not* some glorious "cherokee princess" mythology. Instead it's a story of slavery and a lot of stories of people denying their ancestry after the war for various reasons (one brother fought for the south while his other two brothers fought for the north, the union brothers fled to Oklahoma after the war because of the Klan, the confederate brother stayed with the confederate-aligned family who were left alone by the Klan.)
I'm Scots-Irish too, but my Scots-Irish ancestry is specifically two families with very similar stories; one, Martins who sought refuge with the Cureetuk mixed families because they were on a "list" prepared by the English for execution as rebels, and another for being on a "list" prepared by patriots naming him as a Tory. Their lines ran together two decades later when those previously seperate isolate populations both moved west from Georgia during the same migration (spurred on, importantly to note, by increased agitation with NC colonists. Mixed blood families were often the first to migrate into "Indian territory" as it was (illegally) opened up, because they were fighting their own identity battles along the gradient from the colonies into the wilderness.)
