1. Arrowood1 Anderson Connections birth date unknown.
For additional information, see Andersons of Western North Carolina.
A number of Andersons married Arrowoods.
Some Anderson connections are implied.
Arrowood Anderson Connections had the following child:
The family record of her great grandson, James Francis Arrowood, said that Susan Arrowood was a Cherokee, and that tribal tradition gave to the children the surname of the mother.
However, no Cherokee family (or individual) named Arrowood has been discovered. So, how could this story come about?
The author speculatively proposes the following idea. Perhaps a man named Arrowood married, or had a liason with, a Cherokee woman. Susan, the daughter of that relationship, for some reason was raised among the Cherokee, probably by her mother or her family, and grew up with Cherokee traditions and customs. Taking an American surname, she used that of her father since her mother had none.
William and Susan are given as parents of Nathan Lewis Arrowood in a family history prepared by Nathan's grandson, John Francis Arrowood. It was explained that tribal custom was to give to children of the marriage the surname of the mother.
Neither William nor Susan has been identified in any public record. The author has made an extensive search for men named William Anderson among the records of Western North Carolina, and thinks perhaps the best candidate by circumstance, but without supporting evidence, might be William G. Anderson of Buncombe County.
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