JANUARY 13, 2021 Week 2: Family Legend It seems nearly every family in America boasts about the Cherokee Indian princess in the tree. And my family is pretty much no exception. Ours may not have been a princess, or even full blooded, and maybe not even Cherokee, but the family legend took hold nonetheless. We had a family portrait that was passed down to my maternal grandmother, Edna (Dean) Millhouse. The portrait, seen below, featured John A. Dean and his wife Margaret Marshall seated in the center, along with six of their grown children. John A. Dean and Margaret (Marshall) Dean and children portrait, West Virginia, circa 1895. My grandmother coupled the portrait with this typed family bio and jotted a note at the bottom: “Our Great Grand father, John Dean (Picture) married to Margaret Marshel who was half Indian.” Edna Arlene (Dean) Millhouse, John Dean family details - typed with her handwritten notes, date unknown, privately held by granddaughter Kira D. Foltz. That was the ...