I should clarify that they are both of my great grandparents. When looking at the Mefford and Howard families, I would look closer at the women in the families. After talking to a lot of Native Americans, they told me that it is more likely for a white man to marry a native woman than the other way around. (In those times) Harry’s mom is Emma King. Her father was orphand as a child. The only thing he knew of his father is that he was from Ireland. He knew nothing of his mother. His father went out west and left the boy with a native woman, and his father never returned. I don’t know who the woman was but she raised him until he was a teenager. My tree is open on Ancestry.com