"I, too, am a direct descendant of GWB and Nancy Bushyhead. In Samuel Blackwell's (their son) 1896 Citizenship Application to be admitted to the Cherokee Nation, he stated, '...Mother was only three years old when her mother and my Grandmother died, ...my mother was taken when Grand mother died by an old lady by the name of Mollie Brooks,... Mrs. Brooks having none of her own, but my mother retained her name Nancy Bushyhead, until her marriage with my father Washington Blackwell, I do not know the exact date of my mothers marriage to my father, but mother was never married but the one time...' If you want to discuss this family further, please contact me at [email protected]. I would be happy to exchange info."
