Posted By:	Jody McKenney Thomson
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	Subject:	Re: native american tannehills
	Post Date:	October 26, 2011 at 09:33:45
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/tannehill/messages/206.html
	Forum:	Tannehill Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/tannehill/

Bob: It has been quite a few years since you posted your message to this Forum. I hope you are still at the same email address. I have a copy of an old photo of Nevada Caledonia (aka Dona) Tannehill, daughter of Jessie Tannehill & Matilda McKenney. The person who sent me the photo said that Dona was teasingly called 'old squaw' and that she had some Native American ancestry. I have searched the McKenney side for some evidence of NA ancestry and found no hints of it. I am wondering if it could be from her Tannehill side. I also have wondered if she got the nickname because it was thought she "looked" NA. Dona's Tannehill ancestry would have been John & Phoebe Tannehill to Alfred Tannehill & Nancy Dalton all of Logan County, Kentucky and Jesse Tannehill & Matilda McKenney of Illinois and Missouri. The link that you have provided Ninian & Lillie Blackfish Tannehill is no longer working. I would be interested in reading of what is known.