My name is Robert daniel david Myers descendant of Kenneth eugene Myers and Charlotte Ann Peery. I was born in Jackson memorial hospital, Dade city, Florida. The hospital is now a sherrif department. My mother Charlotte met my father Kenneth in Norfolk Va., while serving in the navy, USS Talbot County (LST-1153),they married and settled in Evansville,In., Ken & Shaddy(nickname given on her family side)moved around alot living thoughout many states ,ohio,kentucky,penn,west virigia,and fla. but my father Kenneth would always return to Evansville,In., he grew up living on the banks of Pigeon Creek where it empties into the Ohio River at Evansville, Indiana at the famous horseshoe bend of the Ohio. He lived there with his father William Myers and Mother Vivian Golden Sutton and several other childern. He and his brothers and sisters where placed into Hillcrest Children's Home in Evandville,In.after there mother Vivian Passed away in dec 2 1955 . My father told me stories about his
father had told him about how he drove a team of horses acoss the river into henderson Ky. during the 1917 blizzard,and how he drove a boat up main street in evansville during the 1937 flood, kenneth father william was a carpenter and a fisherman and owned a fish market at 416 olive street in evansville ,In.He later settled into sweeter projects, evansville, in. 661 sweeter where he became
ill with cancer and passed in june 17 1971.
My main goal is to try to find out about intermarriages between myers and cherokee, There are about 730,000 people who identify themselves as Cherokees in the United States. I been told that family members where cherokee and one point in time, but have no proof ! "He is half me and half her,In a way, he is a definition of living in two worlds." In 1902 there were officially reported 28,016 persons of Cherokee blood, including all degrees of admixture, in the Cherokee Nation in the Territory, but this includes several thousand individuals formerly repudiated by the tribal courts.
The only connection I could come up with intermarriages between myers and Cherokees is though the old settles roll where it listed Tahlequah Carter, as of my g g grandfather greenberry myers married
Martha Carter .
INTERACTION WITH OTHERS
Because of the long history of intermarriage, and because of the nature of the division of land in eastern Oklahoma, Cherokees have long been used to interacting with non-Cherokees. In fact, Cherokees always seem to have been willing to accept outsiders into their ranks, some might say, too willingly. Tahlequah, for example, appears to have a large white population, but much of that population consists of old mixed-blood families, and many of them are officially tribal members. There are also Indians from other tribes who have moved into Tahlequah: Creeks, Kiowas, Osages, and even Navajos. Some of that is the result of intermarriage, some is not. Cherokee, married people of European descent and so were “mixed bloods” even before 1800. This early inter-marriage also means that a full blood ancestor would be several generations back for people living today-thus debunking many full-blood grandma stories.
Greenberry as a given name seems to have been in honour of one Colonel Nicholas Greenberry (1627- 1697), Indian fighter, politician and Governor of the State of Maryland. Early 17th century. Greenberry was a early settler in that state, having come over from England. so with this infomation It's more easier to think that Greenberry was not a Cherokee name as I have been told my search continues as to who my g,g,g, grandparents where! I know that Greenberry and his wife Martha Carter may have the middle name starting with a or m that I've found though her children's cemetery records where it list her middle name as a on one of her children's and m on another of her children's records futher research I found out that Greenberry and martha had lived in Spencer co. ind. and may have been married in 1876 there. on Martha cemetery record of which she and her husband Greenberry and many of there children's,and many,many more Myers are buried including my father and his father at locust hill cemetery located in Evansville ,Indiana. Martha father is listed as Wm. Myers on her cemetery record
also I suggest that greenberry and martha where from Spencer Co., Ind is that there son Walter Sylvester was born there
was born in Spencer Co., Ind May 20 1879
Joseph William myers whom is the son of Greenberry Myers and Martha Carter, used William austin myers birth cer. and switch identity he is buried in locust hill cemetary under the name of William Austin myers ,when st.Marys hospital burnt in Evansville back in 30's all of the records were lost. he became to old to work being a poor man he still needed to support his family ! when his wife vivian golden sutton became to sick and died in dec 55 he place his childern of 6 in orphanage hillcrest in evansville with his childern birth records being lost in the fire the orphanage gave them new birth records . he out lived 4 of his 5 wives