CHARNAL married SHINALL SARAH. SARAH (daughter of SHINALT Thomas and JENKINS Polly) was born in 1803. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1860 Census - Township 2 S Range 1 W. Washington, Illinois age 35.

1880 US Census - Richview, Washington, Illinois: Age 55.

Name:
Named as Mary Matthews on Henriettas' Death Records

MARY married FARMER John Brausen on 22 Jul 1841. John (son of FARMER Nathan and GARNER Mary (Polly)) was born about 1817 in Tennessee (Death Cert for Thomas Matthew states Ky.). [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

JOHN married SIEBERT KATE on 9 Nov 1876. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index - 1916-1947
Name: Thomas Matthew Farmer
Birth Date: 27 Mar 1849
Birth Place: Ills
Death Date: 3 Mar 1922
Death Place: Beck??, Washington, Illinois
Burial Date: 4 Mar 1922
Cemetery Name: Richview
Death Age: 73
Occupation: Laborer
Race: White
Marital Status: M
Gender: Male
Father Name: Brausen Farmer
Father Birth Place: KY.
FHL Film Number: 1556745

THOMAS married FARMER Minnie. Minnie was born in 1846. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Henrietta was three years old in the Illinois 1860 census.
A copy of a portion of "GENEALOGY OF SOME EAST TENNESSEE FAMILIES OF THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY" compiled by Ruth Ritchie in 1945 contains what information we have on Henrietta and her family. They believe she is descendent of Nathan Farmer but can not prove it as yet. If so, this print out contains Farmer information back for several more generations.
Pages 24 and 25 of the supplement to the above mention genealogy book have Henrietta's family information.
Her grandfather supposedly was full blooded Cherokee Indian. Frank Guy Schafer, Jr. shared with Wanda Gines in later years that he and his siblings were the last descendents of Henrietta that could live on a reservation if they chose to do so.
After her husband's death, someone in Richview took her in and they raised Frank Guy Schafer, their only child.
On September 22, 1986, Aunt Tootie Wallace shared with Wanda Gines that Henrietta Farmer in later life, after Joseph Chaver was gone, and Frank Guy was raised, married Frank Rogers. He had one son by a previous marriage named Ira Rogers. Frank Rogers was the only grandpa that Tootie, Mildred and Frank Guy,Jr. knew.
The old Edison Victrola that Mildred Schafer Brink gave to her daughter Wanda had belonged to Frank Rogers. Mildred remembered being at their home and putting the phonograph in the window with it open. All the neighbors gathered around outside to listen to the cylinder records.
After Frank Rogers died, Henrietta lived with Frank Guy and Pauline Schafer. She was nearly blind and later on her mind was bad. Ira stayed in Rogers house. (I barely remember Ira - he had an open, terrible looking cancerous sore on his face.)

Wanda Gines: GenForum entry on April 2, 2004

I was always told I have Cherokee blood. My great grandmother, Henrietta Farmer Chaver, was supposed to be the grand daughter of a full-blood cherokee. My grandfather had proof including all the paper work. His wife was very prejudiced against the Indians and after her husbands death, burned everything. I've been searching ever since but unsuccessfully. My Chaver was Joseph Chaver. He was supposedly killed in a tornady in Murphysboro, Illinois in 1925. He was a jewelry salesman. His possessions and body were never found

HENRIETTA married CHAVER JOSEPH on 13 Aug 1880 in John B. Farmer Residence. JOSEPH (son of CHAVERS Sterling and SPICE Ellen) was born in 1855 in Carrol (?) Co.m Tennessee; died on 18 Mar 1925 in Murphysboro, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

HENRIETTA married ROGERS FRANK on 22 Sep 1896 in Richview, Washington Co., IL. FRANK (son of RODGERS James and MAXWELL Elizah) was born in Jul 1852 in Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Paulina Anna Carolina Arnsmeyer married Frank Guy Truman Schafer in 1904. Paulina was the daughter of Julia Klee and William Arnsmeyer. The Schafer family name is actually Chavers, but was inadvertently changed by a country doctor when Frank's birth certificate was recorded in the 1880's. Frank's heritage was half Cherokee Indian on his mother's side (her name was Henrietta Farmer) and English on the side of his father, a traveling jewelry salesman.
Although they met and married in Nashsville, Frank and Paulina (affectionately known as Aunt Polly) spent the early years of their married life in Percy, where Mildred Helen was born in 1909, and in Chester where Imogene ("Tootie" was born in 1915. The family moved back to Nashville in 1916 to live in the Arnsmeyer homeplace on Walnut Street. Homer G. was born in 1922 and Frank Cuy, Jr. was born in 1924. Mildred married Raymond Brink and they had two children, Charles Ray, a Nashville resident and Wanda Lee (now Gines and living in Ft. Wayne, Indiana). Imogene married Ralph Wallace of Shelbyville, Illinois in 1934. they had two children, Moren Kleek, now living in New Minden and Trenna Rae (now Grabowski) living in DuBois. Home G. died of a congenital disease as a young man. Frank married Marie Ruchaj and they had two children, Cynthia Jean (now Sanders) living in DuQuoin and Jeffrey Todd, currently attending college.
From 1979 Washington County History Book

FRANK married ARNSMEYER PAULINA ANNA CAROLINA on 26 Jun 1905 in Date may be 1904. PAULINA (daughter of ARNSMEYER WILLIAM and KLEE JULIA RUTH) was born on 20 Aug 1887; died on 8 Apr 1967 in Nashville, Washington County, Illinois. [Group Sheet]