William Conner (Cherokee)

• General Notes
  • http://www.bannerblue.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0019-0057.html
    
    
    http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/CONNER/2002-02/1013622165
    
    Check on the following website for the Life of William Conner called, Walking the Knife-Edged Path. Whether he's yours or not it's quite interesting. http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/connbiol.html
    This William was b in OH in 1777, probably in Lichtenau. His father, Richard, b 1718, possibly in MD, mar Margaret Boyer, a white woman raised in Indian villages after her capture by the Shawnee. He ransomed her for $200 and a promise to turn over their first born son. When son, James, was born in 1771, he was given to the Shawnee. Later they ransomed James back to the family.
    
    In 1980 I corresponded with Cleve Kinnear in Claremore, OK. He has a William Conner b 1818, KY; mar ca 1837 to Drucilla Davis; served in Civil War in Co. E, 1st Cherokee Mt. Rifles, CSA as a blacksmith. He died 1868 in Indian Terr. Ch were Caleb, Susan L, Nancy A, William Jr, James J, Mary E, Francis M, Margaret, and Thomas E.
    
    Hope something here coincides with your information.
    
    Carolyn Conner Dietz
    dietz.c@ghc.org
    
    http://boards.ancestrylibrary.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.unknown/1834/mb.ashx