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I know that many of you don't believe that the names Hilton and Helton are interchangeable. We have an ancestor Daniel Smith Hilton b.1788 in NC who was on the Cherokee Rolls.
According to Helton family tradition, his grandfather (Thomas the Indian) married a Hilton girl and took her name. We believe this to be Beecham Hilton's daughter, or as the Moravians called him Beecham Halten. The reason being is that Thomas Hilton named a child Beecham. This Hilton family was in NC and moved to Terrible Creek VA and then back. They had four or five sons that fought in the Rev. War.
Daniel Hilton did go west out of East Tn and Mouse Creek. We believe he married the niece of Major John Walker a known Cherokee leader. Daniel went west with the Treaty Party on the first boat in 1829. His grandson said they could not own the treaty because the Indian were so angry (John Ross and the removal of 1838) that they were killing their own people. We cant find Daniel until 1850 census in Blount Co. TN.
During the Civil War Daniel said he had 14 sons to fight in the war. This seems to be when our name changed to Helton. Daniel Smith Hilton b. 1788 NC is buried in Rockwood TN as a Hilton. We are now Heltons. Anyone interested in working on this bit of Information to find Beecham and the connection in NC please have at it. I have been posting some of the 120 applications that involve the different Helton lines on the internet. This is first to stimulate some honest and good research. The second is to encourage your lines to DNA test at the Helton DNA site. Our line of Hilton/ Heltons DNA have came back Native American.
Blessings to all, Mike Helton rchoutmin@aol.com
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