Cherie Sharp

* Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on 23andMe who share a 22 cM segment on chromosome 1, consisting of Cherie Sharp and Eric Earl Holmes, her 5th cousin, and Ronny Riddle, her 5th cousin. (Eric Earl and Ronny are 5th cousins.) Their most-recent common ancestor is William Riddle, the 4x great grandfather of both Cherie Sharp and Eric Earl Holmes and 4x great grandfather of Ronny Riddle. Cherie is the daughter of William Sharp who is the 3x great grandson of the common ancestor William Riddle.

Very little is known about Ocuma, beyond the fact that she was married to John Melton and they had children. She is probably a sister of Doublehead. The names of her children are not recorded; Cherokee records mention only Charles, Elick, and Moses. The Lewis Melton who emigrated to Indian Territory after John's death may be a son. Rickey Butch Walker doesn't cite actual sources, and the book he refers to by William McDonald refers to the "legend" of John Melton. Walker and McDonald both assume all Meltons in that area were children of John, but it's equally possible they were the children of his brother or were totally unrelated and were not Cherokee at all.

Cherie, thanks for your response. Native American ancestry is challenging. And can be somewhat disheartening when family legends are disrupted. (Early on I discovered the Buffalo church marriage record of my emigrating ancestors, disrupting the long-held family tradition that they'd married on the ship coming over. They may have done something on that ship but they didn't get married on it. ) I do hope you'll consider joining the NA project. Maybe we can help you find more info about your ancestors.

Cherie, if you'd like to work on Native American profiles, please join or at least communicate with the Native Americans project. Much bad info is on the internet about early Native Americans including about the people for whom you've recently added profiles. The NA project seeks to find and document accurate information about these individuals. Chances are that profiles already exist for the Native Americans you've recently been adding. And as you know, wikitree is a one-person-one-profile web site. No duplicates. Also, the Native Americans project has high standards for sources; we don't accept other online trees or FamilySearch pedigree resource files as sources for profiles of Native Americans. Nor do we accept the work of Don Greene. Please work with us towards accuracy. Thank you.

Cherie,

I have merged the 2 Jeremiah Dial Profiles. It is now Dial-611 and we are both profile managers.

Thanks for helping make that possible.

Lola

Hi Cousin Cherie!

We're fourth cousins once removed! Cherie Sharp and Janet Spivey are both descendants of Nancy Wilkes. All the best, Janet

Hi Cherie,

The profile you mentioned is one that I created: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Russell-19060 The seamless blah blah link is the addition of a background image. The blue marbling you see on the edges of the page is the background image. Anytime I create a profile I add an image to spruce it up a bit.

Thanks

Thank you, Cherie for self-certifying for the Pre-1700 badge. Now it is time to pick a project for the 1700's profiles. Please ensure adding location data, and DOB, DOD, with sources to the profiles.

I suggest, California leader is Alison Andrus. or Virginia leader is Liz Shifflett

Visit the project to learn how to join. After joining, please add the project tag to your profile to receive project activity updates.

Here are Active projects: Projects.

Questions? Just ask I'm happy to help :-)

Mary - Voluntary Coordinator

Hi Cherie

I'm not related to Richard Gay....just helping out.

Thank you for your reply. All information leads to good information.

Ron Pearson