I have been researching a woman who while living claimed to be a member of the Cherokee Group while all other records state her as NEGRO or MULATTO, her birth name was Olivia Fannie Thigpen, she was born in the mid or late 1890s, she grew up in the Rocky Mount, N.C. area but may have ties to Pitt County, she ran away from home at age 12 that was around 1905 or 1910, after being adopted she became Fannie Hagar Bryan and she became the adopted daughter of Susan Bryan a Quarter cherokee, Quarter Black, half white woman see that confuses me, was she cherokee BIOLOGICALLY or by adoption? All family members claim this, she didn't look black she was whitish with straight long black hair. Fannie left for D.C. in 1911, and met Charles Edward Chase (A negro)they married on January 2, 1913 and had 16 children, one being my great grandmother Myrtle N Elizabeth Chase-Warren 1915-1993 who married Wm. E. Warren.
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