Email From Gary Aden to Gary Aden
Email Dated 5/25/01
  

    Finally, I wish to discuss the notion propagated by my mother and
her two sisters, Maybell and Minnie, to the effect that there is
"Cherokee blood in our family." Absent DNA testing and at least some
pedigree clue, there   is no way I can prove there isn't; conversely,
unless someone can provide the necessary data, there is no proof there
is. This probability apparently arose from their mother's(Maggie Douglas
HUNSUCKER Young) comments to the effect that the Indian blood came from
her side of the family and that the three sisters' "high cheek bones"
(especially Maybell and my mother) were a product of the Hunsucker line.
As I discuss in the section separately devoted to the Hunsucker twig,
there  is evidence of Hunsuckers serving in Cherokee wars and evidence
of a line calling itself "Honeysuckle" who ostensibly are the product of
interracial breeding many pedigrees removed from our Hunsucker line. Yet
there is the mystery of who the father of Maggie's mother was so maybe
the rumor will always have a life of its own.