Sam P. Hawkins (b. 1827) married Anna Stroud (b. 1829) in North Carolina. Sam and Anna were Cherokee. Sam was a council member and Anna was the daughter of a Cherokee Chief. Their family began in North Carolina with the birth of their first two children, daughters. Then they moved to Georgia and lived several years while having six more children born from Fannin County to Paulding County. To this marriage eight children were born: Carolina Elizabeth b. 1849 d. 1-31-1936, Martha Matilda b. 9-11-1850 d. 7-3-1938, William Henry b. 1853, Mary Jane b. 4-11-1855 d. 3-15-1929, Ellinore Caldona b. 1858, James Anderson(George) b. 2-13-1863 d. 1-24-1941, Emma E. b.8-31-1865 d. 1928, John Milner b. 8-12-1868 d. 12-9-1943. The family lived in Georgia and some of the children married there. Finally all of them moved west. Some of them came to Indian Territory in the 1890's while some of them were in Texas at that time. Martha Matilda was my great grandmother. She married a Mr. West first and shortly afterward married Joseph Taylor on 4-1-1877. They had two children: Susie Elmira b. 1-25-1878 d.11-21-1916, and Callie Elizabeth b. 12-22-1881 d. 3-5-1962. Both of those girls were born in Grayson County, Texas. Joseph died and Martha married Jasper William McCalip. They had three children: Walter, Oscar, and Nellie Jane. The whole family moved to Indian Territory around the Stonewall, Pontotoc County area around 1900. Nellie Jane was born in 1889 in Bowie, Montague County, Texas. She was my grandmother. She married W. O. "Bud" Blackwell on May 6, 1905 in Stonewall, Indian Territory, and they had eight children. Five of those lived to be adults. The oldest Willie Mae (born 8-12-1908) was my mother. Willie Mae married Luther James Thompson December 3, 1930. They had only one child, JaNell Deane born December 27, 1946. JaNell has one child, Tonya Gayle born December 26, 1972.