Mary Belle Easley had 13 children, my father one, Walter Scott Merritt, born approx. 1930. My father Walter indicated we had indian (Blackfoot). A picture. passed to me from my dad revealed a lady with cery long braided hair, on a women. known to be his mother, Mary Belle Easley, as he had written. in my first daughters baby book, approximately. 1984. However, my. father looked much Indian, or. possibly. Mexican.