**NATIVE AMERICAN 10 COMMANDMENTS:
1.  The earth is our Mother; care for her.
2.  Honor all your relations.
3.  Open your Heart and Soul to the Great Spirit.
4.  All Life is Sacred; treat all beings with respect.
5.  Take from the Earth what is needed and nothing more.
6.  Do what needs to be done for the Good of All.
7.  Give constant Thanks to the Great Spirit for each new day.
8.  Speak the Truth; but only of the Good in others.
9.  Follow the rhythms of Nature; rise and retire with the sun.
10. Enjoy life's journey, but leave no tracks.

*TWO WOLVES
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on 
inside people.  He said: "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves inside us 
all.  ONE IS EVIL--it is anger, envy, jealously, sorrow, regret, greed, 
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, 
superiority, and ego.  THE OTHER IS GOOD--It is joy, peace, love, hope, 
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generousity, truth, 
compassion, and faith."  The grandson thought about it for a minute and then 
asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"  The old Cherokee simply 
replied: "The one you feed."

***PLEASE do not take the work at this website as the literal or factual truth 
about family lines--most of it was taken from the internet, without doing 
further research!!!!

**NOTE MOST OF THE CHEROKEE INFORMATION COMES FROM:  "Cherokee Lineages" by 
James (Jim) R. Hicks [jimh@dgsys.com}.

**Note:  This website is intertwined with my other website at: "Cherokee Chiefs and Other 
Important Cherokee People and Their Kin".

SPECIAL MENTION & SOURCES:  "Cherokee Lineages" by James R. Hicks and "The 
History of the Cherokee Indians" by Emmet Starr for the listing of my lineages 
of HENDRICKS, WOODALL, & POST; PATTY JEAN VANZANT & JILL DELENE SCHNEIDER (my 
cousins), and SCOTT HENDRICKS [website; sio.midco.net/lysco/hendricks]--
HENDRICKS LINE; SHIRLEY COTTINGHAM SPENCER (my sweet cousin), DEBORAH SWEET,  
& WILLIAM G. HUITT--HUITT LINE; KEVIN HEWITT--JAMES RUSSELL HEWITT FAMILY; JANE MOORE 
TEEHEE SINGLETARY--POST-TEEHEE LINE; HOLLY HOFMANN--STEELEY-POINDEXTER LINE; R. L. 
GUFFIN--POST LINE; BART H. DYE--DYE LINE,& MARCIA J. MONDIER PERGUIDI--DYE/MILLS 
LINE; MARILYN REESE--MCLAIN-REESE LINE; MARILYN GRAY--PRESTON LINE; LORRAINE WATTS--
MACKEY LINE;  PAUL RIDENOUR--RIDGE/WATIE/BOUDINOT & POLSON LINES; and many, many 
others that I do not have the space to list.  THANKS!!!

**Note:  The name HENDRICKS came from HENDRICK HENDRICKSON (HENDRIXSON) of 
Holland, The Netherlands; it was changed by the sons of ALBERTUS HENDRICKSON 
(HENDRICKS/HENDRIXSON) to HENDRICKS & HENDRIX (both used interchangeably).  
The HENDRICKS LINES are long and varied as many of them named sons with like 
names.  [I have not been able to go past WILLIAM H. HENDRICKS on my line; he 
may not descend from the Hendricks Netherland line!]  **The name HUITT was 
originally: HUET, HUETT, HUEITT, HEWITT, HUIT, HUET, HUGHITT; my HUITT LINE 
has not been proven beyond WILLIAM HUITT who married TACEY WILKINSON.  [THE 
INFORMATION BACK FURTHER WAS TAKEN FROM THE INTERNET.]  **The name POST was 
originally VAN DER POEST, POSTE, AND POST; this line has not been proven 
beyond: SAMUEL POST who married ALLEY BELL. [THE INFORMATION BEYOND THEM 
CAME FROM THE INTERNET.]  **The name Dawes is also Daws, Daus, Dauze, and 
Dause.

**My Cherokee Lineage begins with SUSANNAH [SOE-KIN-NEE/Sokinny] Unknown, an 
orphan, full-blooded Cherokee Indian from Hightower, GA, the Cherokee Nation 
East, who married WILLIAM H. HENDRICKS, SR; they migrated with their family in 
1832 after GOLD was discovered in GA and moved to Indian Territory (OK).  Both 
are buried at the HENDRICKS CEMETERY at WOODALL (sw of Tahlequah) Cherokee 
Co., OK. **Hightower (Etowah or I'tawa') was the name of one or more Cherokee 
settlements: one, which existed until the Removal in 1838, was upon Etowah 
River, about the present Hightower, in Forsyth Co., GA.

FAMOUS PEOPLE AT THIS WEBSITE:

Cherokee Athletes:  Alex A. "Sonny" Sixkiller (Football); Sam (Samuel Jacob) Bradford-
-OK Univ. Quarterback, Heisman Trophy Winner;

FAMOUS CHEROKEES: CHIEFS: John Ross, William Potter Ross, John Rogers Jr, 
William Rogers, John Bowles Sr., **Dennis Wolfe Bushyead, Bloody Fellow, 
Doublehead, Hanging Maw, Nettle Carrier, Old Tassel, Standing Turkey, 
Attakullakulla, Moytoy I & II, Old Hop, Oconostota, Dragging Canoe, Blackfox,

CREEKS: Chief William H. McINTOSH JR. and family, which includes famous artist 
ACEE BLUE EAGLE (Alexander C. McIntosh); and Artuami Ccache (Sachpa) Armstrong 
(McIntosh), the adopted son of Chief William H. McIntosh, whose descendants 
include the Tiger Family of Artists:  Jerome, Johnny Tiger Jr., and Dana Tiger; and 
Alexander Lawrence Posey (poet, journalist, humorist) and his cousin William "Thomas" 
Gilcrease (founder of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK);

**Chief Dennis Wolfe Bushyhead married Eloise Perry Butler (a descendant from 
the Perry Line); OTHERS FROM THE PERRY LINEAGES:  *William Jennings Bryan, 
*Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, *Commmodores Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew 
Calbraith Perry, *Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the *Wright Bros.:  Orville and 
Wilbur; *Lizzie Borden, *Marilyn Monroe, *Poet Edgar Lee Master, and *Major 
Gen. Nathanel Greene.

**The mother of Commodore Oliver Hazard, Sarah Wallace Alexander is a 
descendant of Sir William "Braveheart" Wallace, whose ancestry is included at 
this site.  Other Wallaces descendants of "Braveheart":  Lew Wallace (Gen. & 
author of "Ben-Hur); David Wallace (Gov. of IN); William "Bigfoot" Wallace 
(famous TX Ranger).

OTHER CHEROKEES (all finished): REV. JESSE BUSHYHEAD, MAJOR RIDGE, JOHN 
RIDGE, JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE, ELIAS BOUDINOT, BRIG. GEN. STAND WATIE, JOHN M. 
ADAIR (Rough Rider), SEQUOYAH (Guess); John N. REESE Jr. (WWII), 
Diana "Tahihina" ROGERS, John Hellfire ROGERS, WILL ROGERS (famous humorist), 
Houston B. TEEHEE, NANCY WARD (Beloved Woman of the Cherokees); Abraham 
WOODALL (Judge of the Canadian Dist., (Cemetery in Warner name after him) who 
married Bell & Sam Starr, Willam H. HENDRICKS Jr. (Senator of the Tahlequah 
Dist., Cherokee Nation), Margaret "Peggy" HENDRICKS who married Andrew WOODALL 
[WOODALL SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY named for them.]

CHEROKEE ARTISTS (finished): Talmadge DAVIS; Billy DOWNING;

FAMOUS POST KIN (all finished): Charles W. (C.W.) Post (Post Cereals, Emily 
Price Post (Etiquette), Wiley Post (famous aviator), and Stephen Post (co-
founder of Hartford, CT).

OTHER FAMOUS POSTS (all finished):  Melville Davisson Post (mystery writer); 
Isaac Post and wife Amy Kirby Post and daughter Mary Post Hallowell, and 
Amy's sister Sarah Kirby Hallowell Willis (all 4 with the anti-slavery 
movement and women's sufferage movement); Wally Post (baseball).

FAMOUS POST POLITICIANS (all finished):  Phillip Sidney Post (US Rep/IL); 
Jotham Post Jr. (US Rep./NY).

FAMOUS HENDRICKS POLITICIANS (all finished): Abraham (Abram) (1805-78); Abram 
W. (1822-87); James B. (1840-1919); John (1791-1866); Scott (1878-1960); 
Thomas (1773-1835); THOMAS ANDREWS POST, VP of the US; William (1782-1850); 
William Jr. (1809-50); and William Chalmers (1825-92).  [My Ancestors]

FAMOUS POINDEXTER POLITICIANS: George (Gov. of MS); Joseph Boyd Poindexter 
(Gov. of HI);


[*Indicates that the Lineage is finished.]

***MY KIN PRESIDENTS: *Harry S. Truman; also Post>Rudd>Wood>Fillmore=*Millard 
Fillmore (13th President); and BARACK OBAMA JR.  MY HUSBAND'S KIN PRESIDENT: *George 
Washington: Preston>Worrell>Berry>Washington.

OTHER PRESIDENTS KIN TO GEORGE WASHINGTON:   [For more information on the 
Presidents' CHILDREN, go to: http://www.presidentschildren.com/list.htm] 
*Thomas Jefferson, *James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, *William H. 
Harrison, *Zachary Taylor, *Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, 
*Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, *Benjamin 
Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin 
D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, *Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., *George Bush, and *George W. 
Bush.  

OTHER PRESIDENTS: *Abraham Lincoln; *Thomas "Woodrow" Wilson; *William 
Jefferson "Bill" Clinton; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Presidential elect: BARACK OBAMA (my 
distant cousin).

VICE PRESIDENTS: *Charles Gates Dawes; Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney;

FIRST LADIES: *Martha Custiss Washington, *Dolley Madison; *Hillary Rodham Clinton; 
Michelle L. Robinson Obana;

POLITICIANS:  *Patrick Henry; *John W. Williams, US Sen TN (1815-1823); *Hugh 
White Lawson, US Sen TN (1825-35, 1835-37, 1837-40); *John Sevier (1st Gov of 
TN); *Alice Mary Robertson (US Rep of OK); Sen. John Edwards of NC; Sen. John 
Warwick Daniel, VA; **Barack Obama, US Sen. IL (my kin); Sen. John Glenn (Astronaut);

CONFEDERATE STATES:  *Jefferson Davis, *Robert E. Lee; *Col. John Singleton 
Mosby "The Gray Ghost;"

PIONEERS (all finished): Daniel BOONE; Jesse CHISHOLM, Amelia EARHART, Charles 
GOODNIGHT (my kin), Sam HOUSTON, Gen James WHITE (founder of Knoxville, TN), 
and William H. HENDRICKS and wife Susannah (Sokinny) Unkn, early settlers of 
the WOODALL area in the Cherokee Nation, IT (OK) and HENDRICKS CEMETERY in 
Woodall, OK (sw of Tahlequah, OK) named for them; Rev. Samuel Austin WORCESTER 
(missionary with the Cherokee Indians); Meriwether LEWIS, William CLARK, 
SACAJAWEA of the Lewis & Clark Expedition; Brig. Gen. Joseph L. MARTIN (worked 
with the Cherokee Indians); William DAWES Jr. (rode with Paul Revere); 
Johnny "Appleseed" CHAPMAN; William "Buffalo Bill" CODY; William CLAIBORNE 
(Surveyor, Sec. of VA)(my ancestor); John Howard PAYNE ("Home, Sweet Home"); 
Richard Jordan GATLING (gatling gun); Simon Girty (frontiersman & renegade);

Alamo Defender: Andrew Jackson KENT.

EXPLORERS: Henry Hudson, Explorer of NE US and Canada (Hudson Bay, Hudson 
River).

*"MAYFLOWER" Passengers:  Myles STANDISH; William MULLINS, his wife Alice, son 
Joseph, and daughter Priscilla who married John ALDEN (who was the cooper for 
the "Mayflower"); Henry SAMSON; George SOULE; Richard WARREN; John HOWLAND & 
wife Elizabeth TILLEY; Isaac ALLERTON;

ROYALTY: Mrs. Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson married Edward VIII, Duke of 
Windsor; Sir Winston Churchill;

MOVIE STARS and ENTERTAINERS (all finished):  Glenn Close, Cary Grant 
(Archibald Leach), Clu (William Martin) Gulager, Dina Merrill (Nedinia 
Hutton), Cliff Robertson, and Brooke (Christa) Shields; Descendants of Daniel 
Boone:  Charles Eugene Patrick "Pat" Boone, daughter Deborah "Debbie" Boone 
Ferrer and daughter Gabi Ferrer, and Jessica Corbin (granddaughter); Richard 
Boone, and Randy (Clyde Randall Boone); Pat Boone's wife Shirley Foley and 
father "Red" Foley; Clooneys: Betty, Rosemary, and George; Ferrers:  Jose and 
sons: Miguel and Rafel; Robert Duvall; Marilyn Monroe; Lee Wiley (Jazz Singer); 
William Bradley Pitt;

OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE (all finished):  Barbara WOOLWORTH HUTTON, Edward (E.F.) 
HUTTON, Norman ROCKWELL, F. W. WOOLWORTH, Eberhard ANHEUSER & Adolphus BUSCH 
(Anheuser-Busch Brewing Co.); Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW;  POCAHANTAS & 
husband John ROLFE;

FAMOUS SPORTS FIGURES (all finished):  Andrew AGASSI and wife Stephanie 
(Steffi) GRAFF; Lon (Lonnie) WARNEKE (baseball);

0UTLAWS (all finished):  CHANEY: Alfred (Alf), Frank, and Matthew; DALTON: 
Bill (William), Bob (Robert), Frank (Franklin), Emmet, and Gratton; HITE: 
Clarence, Wood (Robert); JAMES: Frank & Jesse; RINGO, Johnny; STARR: Belle & 
Sam, Tom, and Henry; YOUNGER: Jim (James), John, Bob (Robert), and Cole 
(Thomas); FLOYD, "Pretty Boy" (Charles); COOK: Bill (William Tuttle) and Jim 
(James) [my kin]; FRENCH, James "Jim" Kell Sr.; HILDEBRAND, Samuel "Sam"; 
MILLER, Mose; MURRELL, John Andrews; GOLDSBY,Crawford "Cherokee Bill;"

LAWMEN & LAWWOMEN (all finished):  POST, Tatnall Holt, Sheriff IL Dist., CN, 
IT 1849-51 (my kin); FOSSETT, W. D. "Bill" & daughter Mary Frances "Mamie" 
Fossett Miller; BALLARD, WILLIAM "BILL" Deputy Marshal; BENGE, George 
Washington, Deputy Sheriff of IL Dist., CN, IT (1873-75); COCHRAN, Jesse Jr. 
(Sheriff); REED, James Edwin "Eddie/Ed" US Marshall (son of Belle Starr);  
Sheriff Jesse SUNDAY (Cherokee Nation, Marshal's Service); Samuel SIXKILLER 
(Deputy US Marshal); Wyatt Earp & his brothers;


MY FAMOUS CONNECTIONS:  Hendricks>Woodall>Terrell>Adair>Rogers>Houston; 
Huitt>Dye>GOODNIGHT>TRUMAN, CHARLES GOODNIGHT, VERYL GOODNIGHT (sculptor); and BARACK 
OBAMA JR.; and Wiley POST (aviator) my ancestor; 
Huitt/Sullivant (Sullivan)/Claiborne/William CLAIBORNE of VA Colony.

MY HUSBAND'S FAMOUS CONNECTIONS:  
Preston>Worrell>Berry>Washington>Custis>Lee/Taylor>Davis; also 
his step-father Theodore (Ted) Starr: 
Worrell>Starr>Younger>Dalton>James>Boone>Lincoln; and kin through the 
Preston>Goodman>Mackey>Mosby Line to Col. John Singleton Mosby "The Gray 
Ghost" CSA, Civil War.

**Both my husband and I are related by marriage to *Meriwether Lewis & William 
Clark of the Lewis & Clark Expedition; I am related through marriage by my 
Poindexter Line who married into the Meriwether Line [William J. Poindexter b. 
19 Jan 1772 married Judith Thompson b. 1779 who was the daughter of Waddy 
Thompson and Mary Lewis; Mary was the sister of Meriwether Lewis]; my husband 
is related through his Berry Line>Washington Line>Warner Line.