SUBMITTED BY SUSAN SCHNIRRING

It is really hard when you work fulltime and commute 2 hours average per day 
to find the time to do research.  Here is what I know about my maternal 
grandfather, Ernest Chalmers Sammons.   Ernest was one of many children born 
to John and Ann Scott Sammons in Guthrie Center, Ia.  Other children include 
Emerson, Lewis, Maude, Josie Bell, Archer.  John and Ann Scott came from 
Ohio, settled in Marion County, Ia first, then moved to Monona County and 
finally Yankton, So. Dakota.  John's parents were John and Elizabeth Wade 
Sammons.  In talking to various Sammons people on the net, I found that there 
are Sammons listed in the 1790 census in Delaware as mulatto.  It is thought 
that a Sammons married a Native American from the Lenape tribe or perhaps a 
Native American/African American mix.  Ernest Chalmers Sammons married Mary 
in Yankton, So. Dakota.  My mother and her two biological brothers, Ernest 
and Robert were the result of a long term affair between Ernest and Emmaline 
Martin Fowler.  Emmaline is thought to have been part Cherokee so there is a 
strong Native American influence on both sides.  There are Sammons listed on 
Black Regiment roles for the Civil War also.  I do have actual birthdays and 
death and marriage information on some of John and Ann Scott's children and 
much information about my grandfather, who I never actually met.  
If anyone out there has any information about this side of the family please  
contact me at email [email protected]. 
Susan Schnirring 

Charlotte Curlee Ramsey
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cramsey/index.html