[Verginius Rufus]

I had a distant cousin who married a Cherokee woman and went with her and their children on the Trail of Tears from Georgia to Oklahoma. I find some of their descendants in the later Cherokee rolls. On the census some of the descendants are listed as speaking only the Cherokee language. Because the white ancestry was Scots-Irish, it's possible that some of them had blue eyes, but I don't have any information about that.

I don't have any Cherokee or other American Indian ancestry, at least as far as I know. I did have some ancestors in Virginia in the 17th century so I could be descended from Pocahontas, I suppose. But I'm not sure that I would want to be related to John Randolph of Roanoke.

[RegulatorCountry]

I’ve got a legendary who-knows-how-many-greats great grandfather who would make Pocahontas a relative. Opechancanough, half brother of Chief Powhatan.

He reputedly raped Mary Sizemore in an attack during the Second Powhatan War, in 1622. Opechancanough himself was possibly the product of rape, by a priest from a Spanish fort further up the Chesapeake. He’s believed to have been “Don Luis” who was taken to Spain, something of a celebrity in certain circles. He was a “Werowance,” a chief, as was his half brother, what has historically been misconstrued as being similar to royalty as Europeans understood it.

That, you’d never prove. It is a persistent legend though. Unusually detailed and reasonably true to the few known written accounts.

[AnAmericanMother]

As long as you're not descended from John Randolph of Roanoke, you're probably o.k. His . . . ah, shall we say "quirks" . . . were probably due to childhood illness and not hereditary. And he had no offspring for the same reason.

He must have been a lot of fun to watch though - from a safe distance, and concealed.