Lodusta Tidwell, the daughter of Indian John(Winnafred and Young Deer) and Lucretia Thompson was my gr. gr. grandmother. Her daughter Nancy Brown, was my gr. grandmother.

she married James Miller and I was named after her. My grandpa was Joseph Mayse Miller, they called him "Blackie" or "Bot" because he had dark skin.

Does anyone have information on "Young Deer"? He was Cherokee. that's all that I know. Nancy reported being 1/4 Cherokee for the Dawes Rolls, so that means that there must have been more Cherokee in her family line? does anyone know who it was? Also need information on "John Washington Brown" Lodusta's husband..thinking he had to have Cherokee? does anyone know?

by pure coincidence I married a 'Brown'. getting back to my roots.