I'm predominantly Scottish, Irish, and Cherokee Indian with a little Osage thrown in and probably stuff I don't know about.
My father's paternal grandfather, John Osborne, came to Oklahoma from Liverpool, England at some unknown date and became a cowboy and married an Indian woman. My family from that angle was related to the Rogers and the Glendinings. Both the Rogers and the Glendinnings were associated with Frank Phillips, the founder of Phillips Petroleum, and other personages related to northeast Oklahoma. The most famous Roger was Will Rogers, a famous comedic cowboy, actor and political satyrist. It is also possible that I may be related to Scottish nobility through that line.
My father's grandmother was an Indian. I don't really know much about her. I need to spend some time in Pawhuska and Tahlequah and look up the family history in the tribal records.
My grandparents on my mother's side grew up in central east Oklahoma near a small town south of Muskogee and were very rural.
My grandfather, Carl Reynolds, was born a farmer and was considered well off for the area growing up. His family had a full team of mules and a car. As my great grandfather was very silent about his past, there is little background knowledge beyond that, but based on the Surname of Reynolds and some of the words my grandfather used, I would say that he was predominantly Irish with possible Scottish blood.
My grandmother was a Mabry, but her mother was a Starr, and the Starr Clan has a tumultuos history. During the days of the Old West, the Starrs were mostly outlaws, and we are related to Belle Starr by marriage and probably other notorious outlaws both legitimately and illegitimately. The clan trace its roots back to Major Ridge who had sold out the Cherokee for what he thought was a means to save the Cherokee people and, consequently, whose actions helped to lead to the Cherokee Trail of Tears. He was also the uncle of General Stand Waity who was one of the most successful confederate generals (I wonder how many Americans even knew that Native Americans had fought and died during the Civil War on both sides.) Though the Starrs I am also descended of other interesting people; one being Ghigaugh, who was a former slave who eventually came to have the veto power of a full council. The Starr name can be trace as far back as the 1600's during the time of Cromwell. The father of John Starr was an Irish infantry captain under Cromwell.
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I might have some Native American in me. It probably would have been Cherokee or some obscure tribe in or around Georgia, some time in the 1700s.
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I like to say I'm half-Polish, half-mutt. My mom's family came to America the century before last from what was then Russia. My dad's family seems to be a mix of English, Irish, French and who knows what else.
Do I get points with those up North for having a French Canadian grandmother?
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from what was then Russia. My dad's family seems to be a mix of English, Irish, French and who knows what else. 