General Notes

Custom Field:<_FA#> One record has her first name as Serena. It is said that Surrenna is inscribed on her headstone.@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
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One reference suggests she was born in Tallapoosa Town, Coosa, Co., AL.
Tallapoosa Town (most likely a Creek Indian village) was a part of the
Creek Indian Territory. Coosa Co., Alabama did not become a county until
1832.
Serena was a Creek Indian left with the Rushing family, the girls parents
were being marched to Oklahoma and did not think Serena would survive, so
they left her with a family to care for her.  She was raised in the same
family as Barron Dekalb whom she later married.
When you walk inside the gate of the cemetery a few feet, look to your
left. Serena's grave is very short, indicating she was small. She was
full-blood Indian.