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- (see notes of William Doak, her "father"
Sally was 1/2 Choctaw. It is questionable that her parents were actually married. There is some evidence that she was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee, rather than Madison County, Mississippi.
She might be daughter of Tioka "Jane" but story of Tioka might not be confirmed.
the legend:
Around the time of the Treaty of Doak's Stand in 1820 William sent Sarah ( Sally) back to Lincoln County, Tennessee to get an education that was not available to her in that part of Mississippi. This was met with rage by Sallys maternal uncle Pumpkinhead, who threatend to kill William Doak if he sent his niece away, (a niece who by Choctaw tradition was Pumpkinhead's responsibility). There was another run in between the two men when Pumpkinhead learned that Sally had married a whiteman named Thomas Fanning from Lincoln County.
the legend refuted:
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Finally, while there is much discussion about William Doak at Doak's Stand having a child named Sally (Sallie) by an Indian woman, I have never seen any documentary evidence supporting such a contention. The William Doak who operated Doak's Stand, and whose first wife Polly McMurry died in Madison County, Mississippi, about 1824, apparently remarried a woman named Sarah Carson. That William Doak died in 1833 in what was then Washington County, Mississippi. A few months later Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, was created, and the administration of William Doak's estate was transferred to that county, where his residence and real property physically were located. Nowhere in the estate proceedings is there ANY mention of a daughter named Sally (Sallie) or who may have been of Indian heritage--which of course doesn't prove that there was not one. But if there was a Sally (Sallie) Doak who had known Indian ancestry through her mother (an Indian princess, I believe the oral tradition suggests?), it is likely that you will have to trace the lineage BACKWARD through Sally (Sallie) to her mother if you are to find documentary evidence to prove your research. Hope this information is helpful.
http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=197&p=surnames.doak
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Abt 1810 - 1880 (~ 70 years)
