Clarkston00

This is a copy of the charcoal drawing of

Nellie [Feathers] and Thomas [Clarkston].

Anyway that is who I was told that it is

and on the back of the drawing it has the names on it.

So You decide for yourself if it is authentic or not.

Deborah McCombs

This post-mortem "Obituary" was written and submitted for print by
Alma C. Hobbs in October 1995. I am told that Alma was quite a
researcher and kept a tremendous amount of notes. And, I'm sure she
was only repeating wh at she had been told, but the telling is not
always fact.

Research in the recent past has led us to believe that Nellie was the
sister of John Lawrence Feathers, of Englislh descent who had
property and paid taxes in the very early Lee Co, VA. He finally settled
and raused a karge fanukt in the northeast section of Tennessee,
which in reality is still the Cumberland Gap.

It is highly possible and even highly probably that we all have some
degree of Indian blood in our veins if we stem from at least one
Cumberland Gap ancestor. AND... if you stem from one, you probably
have a whole bunch to claim when the dust settles.

However, I am very concerned about the great many people passing
along Indian stories about Nellie. some even making her father Chief
Big Feathers, who was born 30-40 years her junior.