Pocahontas, John Smith, The Bolling family, supposedly anyhow.
There is a glitch if you google Benjamin Bolling/ Pocahontas their is a dispute whether Ben was a decendent of Pocahontas.
If he was, Poca was my GGGGGGGGGG grandmother(Great 10 times) , if not then no.
My Aunt spent years tracking down family info here is a story she found, pretty cool. It is about my Great Grandma's (Mary Ann Martin/ Tackett) family, her father William Martin and older brothers were killed in the civil war.
WILLIAM MARTIN AND FAMILY HEAD FOR NEBRASKA
Around 1850 Nebraska opened up land for homesteaders, so William Martin and some other people loaded up their wagons and like pioneers before them searching for a better way of life, headed for the land of their dreams. After a long hard trip, which I have no details of; they came to Johns Creek in Pike County, Kentucky.
Boats were still coming to Pikeville,KY when William decided it was time to follow his dream, so he loaded his wagons with all their earthly possessions and headed for the river. Here all was loaded onto a flat boat. It was then pushed into the river and they were on their way. The boat was pushed along with long poles and the water helped them along. The boat was heavily loaded and it was hard to keep them on a steady course. I don't know the route they were to travel, but as they got close to Cattlesburg and the Ohio River, the boat ran aground on a sand bar. The boat broke apart and people, animals, and household goods all went into the river. One of the young sons (Mary Ann's brother) Meredith told his children that he was so scared. Cows bawling, pigs squealing, and water everywhere. He said his father put him on his back, got another child under his arm and swam to shore, which was not too far away. William's wife (Annie Davis) was holding on to the baby and some diapers with one hand and holding a piece of the boat with the other. The bigger boys were helping to look for stock and household goods, Sylvester (William's oldest) was getting his wife and baby out. All lives were saved, all household goods were lost, One cow and four horses were killed. William and some men walked the river bank all night hoping some things and the stock would come ashore, but nothing did.
Some how they ended up in South Point, Ohio, where William and his three oldest sons (Sylvester, John T, and Jacob D) joined the Army. In March of 1862, while fighting for the union(North) all four were killed in the battle of Shilo in Tennessee. They are supposed to be buried on the left of South Point, Ohio on Route 52, as you face toward Huntington, West Virginia, in an old church yard, the only four graves there. A grandson, William who is deceased now, said he saw the graves once, but other family members have tried to locate them but couldn't find them.
Williams’s wife, Annie (Davis) Martin returned to Rock House Fork of Caney Creek, in Pike County Kentucky, from South Point, Ohio. Where she gave birth to Mary Ann, Who grew up and met her future husband James Tackett.
Although this story is tragic, it makes me appreciate my life and how had these events not occurred, Mary Ann would have probably never married her future husband James Tackett in 1879. Bringing to life Annie (Tackett) Anderson, and all her descendants including me.
