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Jerry: The world is so small, is it not? It would be smaller without the technology we have, but with regard to the Cleveland/Coffee/Jackson connections, it gets ever smaller. I am a direct descendant of Jacob Cleveland and Millie White (died Elberton, GA, through their son Jeremiah and wife Nancy Helen Clark; William Cleveland and Isabella Morris; John Clark Cleveland and Susan Louella Foreman (the Foreman line is the line from which my Cherokee comes), Bark Foreman Cleveland/Cornelia Ingram, Mason Foreman Cleveland/Claudia Fleming. Colonel Benjamin Cleveland was a first cousin to my Jeremiah, and both were at Kings Mountain, and probably the Cowpens as well. Colonel Ben was quite a guy, evidently. I think history cannot decide whether he should be famous or infamous for his exploits. The good Colonel was, of course, married to Mary Graves. I think its common knowledge that Colonel Ben is buried in SC (photos of some of the Cleveland graves are now on line through SC GenWeb, mostly through the courtesy of Paul Kankula, of that site, who has just done a phoenomenal job all the way around, especially with regard to the Cleveland graves that were moved to make room for Lake Hartwell. With regard to my own line, my husband and I would probably have been to GA and back by now excepting life got in the way in the form of him having a stroke less than ten days after retiring. There is a wonderful gentleman I have been corresponding with for a couple of years now who is a Cleveland descendant, and who was going to take us to the Cleveland cemetery in Georgia where Jacob and Millie are buried. We hope to finish that plan in the near future. Just have to deal with a slight detour. It was fun watching Mel Gibson in "The Patriot" wasn't it? Sort of puffs a person up a little. The zigged when they should of zagged a few times, but it was still entertaining. I remember reading a review in Newsweek by their movie critic, shortly after the movie came out. He said he couldn't believe all that stuff about Tarleton. Well, history proves that he was that bad, or worse. I read somewhere that he so hated the Americans that when he returned for a visit as an old man, he went so far as to show disrespect even for Washington's grave.

Now, the plot thickens. On my grandmother Frances Kyle's side, my GGG Grandfather, Judge Samuel Kyle of PA, KY, and Ohio (married first to Ruth Mitchell, my GGG Grandmother), married as his second wife, Rachel Jackson, a cousin of Andrew Jackson from Pennsylvania. They had 15 children. The good judge was famous for his large brood (21 children counting those by Ruth Mitchell) of children, and is famous for his comment that he "had 75 feet of sons", because they were all tall Scotsmen, and there were a lot of them! What a twist of fate that family related to me in one way should be responsible for the destruction of family related to me in another (ie, the illegal removal of the Cherokees from their homelands). Cousin Andrew is not very popular in some of our houses, relative or not, and it is documented fact that he would never have won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend without their help, which he never even acknowledged).

A traditional story passed down in our family for over two hundred years now is that David Mitchell built the first log cabin in Lexington, Kentucky, and Fort Lexington probably built adjacent to it, or around it. There were still Indians around, and he once was brought home unconcious and wounded by his horse. They removed to Ohio when Kentucky went into the Union as a slave state, and Ohio did not - about 1803 or 04', as their fervently opposed to slavery. There are copies of newspaper advertisements from when they sold their places in Kentucky. They and the Kyles were both in Kentucky, and Samuel and Ruth were either betrothed and/or married there, and shortly removed to Ohio where they are buried. Ruth died very young, widowing Samuel Kyle with six children (one of them Samuel Jr., my GG Grandfather), and subsequently married Rachel Jackson. David Mitchell was apparently with George Washington at either Trenton or Princeton, and probably both. My maternal side had David Boyd there with the First SC Regiment under Colonel Pinkney (1775-1778). One of my Kyle grandfather's had seven sons in the Rev War at the same time. Not surprisingly their mother died in 1777.. The Kyles were intermarried with the Chambers family of Pennsylvania, and some of the first to take up arms, and Colonel James Chambers was one of Washington's most trusted officers.

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