William Parker and Martha Pleasant Anderson are my grgrgrgrgrandparents.
In our family we have much info on William but little on Martha. We are told that they were already married when they came into Haywood Co. and then settled in Transylvania Co, N.C. We are told that Martha was born in NC and her mother was named Nancy Anderson.a
Records seem to indicate that her father was Henry Massengale who was a very prominent farmer and politician in Tennesee. He settled in what was then still part of the Cherokee Nation. Many of his friends apparently had White wives and also Indian wives.
My guess is that Martha was Henry Massengale's daughter by an indian wife and that's why she kept the maiden name of Anderson.
Does anyone have an information?
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