This is an ongoing project involving many years of many people digging. This family includes Mississippi Choctaws who moved to Indian Territory, murdered people, people who murdered, and even some "normal" people who were cowboys, farmers, miners, and oil men. Some served their country and some served time.

The Southern author Shirley Abbott wrote, "We all grow up with the weight of history on us.  Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies." This is how I have felt since I was a young girl and why this work will never be finished.

I am those who came before - with some "me" added in.

Charmaine RILEY HOLLEY
 "Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thainig thu"
 ~Remember the men from whom you are sprung ~