I am the great great? grand daughter of Mary (nettie) Kyer. My father's name is Gordon Samuel Arnold. He was born in Ohio. He tells me a story of Mary (whose photo I have) about being Blackfoot Indian in origin. She was in a relationship or married -don't know which -to a French Canadian fur trapper. He would get drunk and beat her. One day he came home to beat her, and she stuck a knife in him. They locked her away in a hot box type jail thing and she escaped to New York. There she met Samuel Richetello. my number is 417-894-2431 and my email is
bpronia@hotmail.com. find me on facebook under Becky Pronia. She had 11 siblings according to dad but ancestry site is only saying there were 5 siblings. Also kyer was supposedly an English name given to her. Her Indian name was more like Nettie Jane Kayuk.. Kayuke.. don't know... he would tell stories of how she let her hair get very long, and would let it down and go camping in the woods naked. And how a neighboring tribe came their farm to burn it down and her mom turned a huge cast iron kettle over top her and one of the boys to hide them. dad is turning 70 this year and not well. I hope you can reach me soon.