She might be a Cherokee coming from that area...the Indians were all put 
into rolls...i.e. sorta like the white census but they were 
Indians...National Archives has all the enrollment cards...but you first 
have to find a roll number...Western Cherokee's start with the Dawes 
Roll or Guion Miller Roll...Cherokee by Blood is an excellent source 
also...Charlotte

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From: "Dennis Smith" 
Subject: Bright & Dill Families Greenville Co., SC Early 1800s
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 19:43:00 -0400
To: [email protected]

Hello Everyone,

This is a stab in the dark but I believe I "might" have a Bright 
ancestor.

My ggreat-grandmother, Susan A. DILL was born 10 Oct 1832 in Greenville 
Co.,
SC and died 10 Dec 1912 in Abbeville Co., SC.  She married Franklin 
Esque
BOWIE on 9 Mar 1852.

Their second son was named William Bright Dill Bowie.

I wondered how they were able to meet until I noticed that in the 1850
Census of Abbeville District, SC, where Franklin appeared in his 
father's
household #2233 , there was a Bright Dill, household # 2225.  Bright 
Dill is
aged 30 and too young to be Susan's father but he is an Overseer and 
appears
to have moved to the neighborhood (Cokesbury) from the Greenville area.  
He
was probably related and since he already had six children by 1850, she
might have been providing household help when she met Franklin.

In this same 1850 census, Susan A. DILL is living in Greenville 
District, SC
in the household of a Millford HOWARD # 335.

According to a history of Greenville, SC, the Howard and Dill families 
were
among those who had settled in the Northern part of the county before 
the
American Revolution.

According to "Cabins in the Laurel", a Samuel BRIGHT had the first 
homestead
in the Toe River Valley of NC.  He received a grant for 640 acres near
Humpback Mt.. 15 Mar 1780. It mentions a Bright's Spring and a Bright's
Trace.

Another researcher has suggested that Samuel Bright either came from or
through the Greenville, SC area before he moved into NC.

A Bowie family history book, "Where the Brambles Bloom", states that 
Susan
A. Dill was of "American Indian extraction".  The same researcher 
mentioned
above thought that she remembered hearing of an early Bright in the
Greenville Area who married an Indian.  She was not a Bright researcher.

I would like to find parents for Susan and would appreciate any 
information
on Brights in Early Greenville Co.  A DILL/BRIGHT marriage would be a 
very
nice clue.

Thank you,

Dennis Smith
[email protected]

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