Mahala Snipes - Kansas or Missouri
Hello,Let me introduce myself.
If I am correct at all my line is as follows:
John Woosley > Thomas Woosley & Mary > Thomas Woosley/Woolsley & Elizabeth Walters > William Woosley, Sr & Susahhah Tribble > William Woosley, Jr & Catherine Amburn > Joseph Woosley & Lavina Krause > William August Woosley & Mahala Snipes > Rhoda Mae Burge & Elbert Newton "Newt" Burge > Elmber Lee "Joe" Burge & Gladys Johnson > Warren Lee Burge
I have been putting together a family history for only about the past 8 to 9 months, but have a lot!
It has only been in the past few weeks that I have been using a commercial program. Previously I had been using family information, documents and writting to every single person in an area who had the same last name of the family members that I was researching.
This method, although slow allowed me to reach a few members who had some history and in one case, sent to me an obituary of my grandmother Rhoda Mae Woosley, which identified her father as being August Woosley. Runing this name on the family tree maker program and on the internet gave me only one hit William August Woosley and I soon learned that his father was born March 2, 1819 Winston-Salem, Davidson County, North Carolina/Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., NC and died January 12, 1877 Chanue, Neosho County, Kansas. Furthermore I learned that there were members of that immediate family who died in and around Warrensburg, Mo. My grandmother was born at Bonner Springs, Kansas, married a man from Johnson County, Missouri and they spent a few years in Chanute, Kansas when first married and then lived most of their lives, after 5 years home steading in Black River Falls County, South Dakota, in and around Warrensburg, Missouri and I am therefore convinced that I have the right Woosley family.
I have learned that William August Woosley was married to a Mahalia Snipes.
According to My immediate Family Oral History. Mahala Snipes was either the daughter or the sister of Red Cloud Chief of the Ogala, Lakoda ,Sioux, who was captured (maybe) and (porbably) raised white by a family named Snipes and she was renamed Mahala Snipes. Red Cloud,
Indian name: Mahpuiua-luta, led the combined Sioux and Cheyenne Forces in warfare against the soldiers, settlers and gold seekers who invaded their sacred hunting grounds of the Wyoming territory. in 1868, a signed tready ended the war. For the next 30 years, Red Cloud's people were cheated of their lands including the Black Hills and moved to lesser reservations.
According to Elmer Lee "Joe" Burge (my deceased father), his grandmother was a stern woman and always wore a silver thimble and when ever any of the grandchildren would misbehave she would not hesitate in tumping them with. When the Dawes Commission was attempting to register all the Indians in the late 1890's and came to her farm home, she took a shotgun and ran him off.
I have a family picture of my grandmother as a child with her entire family including this Mahalia Snipes and holding a picture of Red Cloud next to her picture you can not see a difference as their expression shape of face, eyes, hair line and mouth are exactly alike.
Family would (mostly) not admit her Native American heritage. Someone along the was taught my father (as a childe) a war dance and how to make arrow heads.
I have searched and searched for any information at all about Snipes and have a complete dead end, which makes me think that perhaps the story has some merit. Thus far I have only one slgihtest clue and that is from afamily researcher of the snipes line
Is there any way that any of you researchers could help me at all?
Thank You Warren Burge [email protected]
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Re: Mahala Snipes - Kansas or Missouri
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