FLOYD OF STANLY: The Floyd Family of Stanly County, NC

Many people who claimed Indian descent were described, either by themselves or others, as "Cherokee." The issues of ethnic identity are complex, and cannot always be strictly tied to race. There were certainly numerous mixed-race unions during the colonial and antebellum years. The Siouan Saponi in VA were called "Piedmont Catawba." The Siouan Saponi in VA/NC were called "Piedmont Siouan." The Siouan Saponi/Tutelo in WVA were called "Blackfoot of the Seneca." The Siouan Saponi of NC were called "Blackfoot Cherokee." The Siouan Sissipaha (Sissipahaw, Siccaponi, Saxapawha) of NC were called "Blackfoot Indians."My great-grandmother Lucy Ann Floyd Hinson Curlee (1869-1914) 1/4 Siouan Occaneechi-Saponi Indian - Married twice - Lucy first married "Jim" James Henry Hinson and had 11 children. She moved with her husband and children to Woods Community, Panola County, Texas where family tradition states that "Jim Hinson died of the fever while building a fence." His bother, Lee Hinson's grandchildren stated that "Jim was carrying a bullet in him when he moved from North Carolina to Texas." On March 10th, 1882, "Sim" Joseph Simeon Curlee's wife, Eliza Ann Poplin Curlee, entered the premisses of Jim Hinson's house after being forbidden to do so. She was also armed. An arrest warrent was taken out by Jim Hinson and was issued for her arrest. Why would Sim Curlee's wife be doing this? Sounds like she is mad at his wife, for what? After Jim Hinson dies in Texas, his wife Lucy Floyd Hinson bounds out all of her children, except for her youngest Lee Jack Hinson and then marries "Sim" Joseph Simeon Curlee. She had three more children by old Sim. My grandfather "Billy" William Crowell Hinson, Sr., always loved his mother, even though she bound him out when he was six years old.