If there was a connection, I was interested in the background (heritage and history). I have been told that my ancestors were Native American. I have also been told that they were African-American. Nancy Burden and James Smith are my G-G-G-G grandparents. The line comes through their son Walter T. and then his son Annanias and his son Elmer Eugene and then his daughter Florence Ellen and then my father John Elmer and then me.