I am trying to validate my family native American heritage.My great great grandfather was
Myles Carey (not sure abot spelling of first or surname), he was a stage coach driver for Pony Express. And may have had some run ins with the law (not sure what type of laws he might have broken). He came from the
Tennessee Valley. His daughter,my great grandmother, stayed on the reservation with her children for awhile in the latter part of the 1800's. During a separation from her husband. My great grandmother's name was Mamie
Carey(again not sure about spelling) born sometime around the mid-1800's. My great gradmother married, Peter
Washington Ward and they had three children, Arthur, Roland, and
Estell. After Mamie Ward's husband died she and family moved to Waycross,
Georgia. My mother is the daughter of Roland
Ward and Annie
Austin. Her name is Ruth
Ward she was any ophan by age three. She lived with her grandmother Mamie
Ward in
Rising Sun
Maryland. Mamie had to other childern Vera and Leroy I don't know their father's name. In
Maryland Mamie became Mamie
Boddy.(not sure of spelling of name.) Mamie died in August 1937 in
Rising Sun,
Maryland. My mother is 87 years old and know nothing about her heritage, Mamie felt she and her sister should not know anymore than I have written . If any one can help in any way it would be greatly appreciated. There are no birth records of my mother's or her older sister birth. A birth certificate was issued on the information in an old
Bible for my mother and her sister. The
Bible was lost when my great grandaunt died.
Thank you,
Joyce