Alfred has been noted on the Cherokee Indian Roll....He sometimes went by the name of A.J. Pierce so he could own land. If you were an Indian you were not allowed to own land and would have been returned to the reservation.
The homestead was 2 miles south-west of Slagle by the cemetery.
Sarah Elizabeth was one-quarter Osage Indian and her grandmother Scroggins was of Indian Parentage, it is said.
We thank Diane Porter of Toll-house, California (daughter of Beulah Tooley) for the earlier history of the Pierce and Scroggins and Angelina Witts dates and names. She also mentioned that during the Civil War that A.J. Pierce was in the Military of Missouri Militia and his papers have "Alfred" Jack Pierce.
We thank Mrs. Linda Mitchell of Alquerque, N. Mexico (now Mrs. Linda Soros of Utah) June, 2000, for her special help of research and pictures as her grandmother Sarah Ethel Johnson was raised by Ben & Matila Perryman. She donated pictures of Ben & Matila Perryman and their two sons Tom and Toss, and her grandmother Sarah Ethel.98
Marriage 1 ELIZABETH SCROGGINS b: 5 JAN 1827 in ROANE CO,TN
* Married: 19 SEP 1844 in POLK COUNTY, MO. 1
Children
1. TERESA JANE PIERCE b: 1846
2. EDWARD G.W. PIERCE b: 5 MAY 1850
3. JOHN WESLEY PIERCE b: 1852
4. SARAH ELIZABETH PIERCE b: 1 APR 1854 in POLK CO, MO
5. WILLIAM F. PIERCE b: 1857
Marriage 2 ANGELINA WITT b: 1836 in MO
* Married: 11 DEC 1859 1
Children
1. ANNA MATILDA PIERCE b: 16 OCT 1862
Marriage 3 MARIAH WITT b: 1843
* Married: 20 NOV 1864 in POLK COUNTY, MO. 1
Children
1. ELLEN PIERCE b: 1864
2. JULIA ANN PIERCE b: 23 DEC 1866
3. REBECCA "BECK" PIERCE b: 1870
4. ALEXANDER JACKSON "ELLIOTT" PIERCE b: 13 MAR 1873
5. ALICE BELLE PIERCE b: 24 OCT 1865

89Elizabeth Scroggins was 1/4 Osage Indian . . . her grandmother Rebecca Prichett was full osage Indian . . . that is where the Johnsons got their height . . . Osage Indians were from 6 or 7 feet tall. [note from ONRY]