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John P. Holder,
Chickasaw
John P. Holder Et Al.,
Chickasaw.
Dawes Commission, No. 62.
United
States Court, No. 77.
Citizenship Court, No.
42-T.
Record
September 10, 1896. Application made to
commission for enrollment of John P. Holder
and 115 others, all claiming to be lineal
descendants of Elizabeth Stewart, a
Chickasaw Indian woman, and Bledsoe Holder,
who intermarried in the old Chickasaw
Nation, Miss., and removed to the Chickasaw
Nation, Ind. T., with his family about 1849,
stopping for several years in Missouri en
route. William L., Jackson A. and Benton A.
Holder, children of Elizabeth and Bledsoe
Holder, and their children, grandchildren,
and great-grandchildren are claimants
herein, as are also the descendants of
Benjamin Stewart, brother of Mrs. Bledsoe
Holder, and himself a Chickasaw. The names
of claimants will appear hereafter.
The proof of descent and blood of the
applicants is clear. From about 1849 to
about 1890 claimants lived part of the time
in Texas and part of the time in the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Nations; a majority of
claimants resided in the nations in 1885,
and 91 of those who made application to the
commission were residents in good faith in
1896. Claimants were recognized as
Chickasaws by the members of the tribe and
exercised all the rights of citizens of said
nation. It appears from the record that in
1892 Judge Carter (father of Congressman
Carter) applied to the Chickasaw citizenship
committee, appointed under the act of the
legislature approved November 14, 1889, for
the admission of these, claimants; that a
favorable report was made on said
applications to the council, but that no
action was taken thereon by the council by
reason of an opinion of the attorney general
of the Chickasaw Nation holding the
committee to have been unconstitutionally
appointed by reason of the fact that two of
the members thereof were members of the
council, and therefore not eligible to serve
as members of the committee. All cases acted
upon by this committee were rejected by the
council under the opinion of the attorney
general. See more specific reference to work
of this committee in the case of Henry Brown
et al., Chickasaw claimants.
December 1, 1896. Applications of all
claimants denied by commission.
January 28, 1897. Case appealed to United
States court. Ardmore, and case considered
on evidence before commission and additional
testimony taken and recorded before master
attorneys for nations present and examined
witnesses.
An unsigned copy of the master's report in
the files of the case is as follows:
In the United States
court, southern district, Indian Territory.
Jno. P. Holder et al. v. Chickasaw Nation.
On this the 10th day of March, 1898, came
on to be heard before me the undersigned
master in chancery the application of John
P. Holder et al., for admission to
citizenship in the Chickasaw Nation, and
after hearing the evidence and duly
considering the evidence in support thereof,
I am of the opinion that the applicants
hereafter named are entitled to be enrolled
as citizens of the Chickasaw Nation.
It appears from the evidence in the case
that the applicants are the descendants of
Elizabeth Colbert, a Chickasaw Indian by
blood, who married a man by the name of
George Stewart: that the said Elizabeth
Colbert, and George Stewart had a daughter
by the name of Elizabeth Stewart, through
whom these applicants claim that said
Elizabeth Stewart married a white man by the
name of Bledsoe Holder: that said Bledsoe
Holder and Elizabeth Stewart had a number of
children, among them being William L.
Holder, Jackson A. Holder, and Burton A.
Holder; that, the said Bledsoe Holder and
wife lived In the old Chickasaw Reservation
in the State of Mississippi: that they moved
with other Indians to the Indian Territory,
but stopped with their children in southwest
Missouri and resided there about 20 years:
that they afterwards came into the Indian
Territory, and finally drifted to the
northern border of Texas, and remained there
a number of years. It appears from the
evidence that the said Bledsoe Holder and
Elizabeth Holder and their descendants, who
are concerned in this application, at all
times claimed to be citizens of the
Chickasaw Nation, and that they lived in and
about the Chiekasaw Nation from time to time
ever since they came west of the Mississippi
River, and that they in fact have Chickasaw
blood in their veins.
I find, therefore, that the following
descendants of the above-named parties are
entitled to be enrolled as citizens of the
Chickasaw Nation:
John P. Holder, Rosebud Holder, George
Holder, John Holder, Minnie B. Holder,
Martha S. Holder, Marcia Holder, and Colbert
Holder.
Benjamin G. Holder.
Elizabeth Looney, Burton Looney, Frankie R.
Looney, William Walter Looney, Thomas
Jefferson Looney, F. E. Looney, Alex.
Looney, Guy Looney, Roy Looney, Ora Looney
and Cora Looney.
Milton E. Holder, Rebecca Holder, Thomas D.
Holder, Calvin E. Holder, Harry L. Holder,
Clarie Holder, Frank S. Holder, Julia
Holder, Ida Holder Ford, Julietta May Ford,
Gracie Ford, George W. Holder, Almorine A.
Holder, and Arlie Holder, Racheal A. Young,
William J. Young, Mary A. Walls, Agnes
Walls, Frank Walls, and Mary E. Walls, Minta
Fitch, William Fitch, William T. Young and
Albert Young.
Isaac B. Holder. Dennis Holder, Evans E.
Holder, Roy R. Holder, Oliver R. Holder.
Mary Louisa Little.
Jackson A. Holder, Lucinda Holder, Larrie
Victoria Martinus, Joseph Martinus,
Josephine Martinus, Charles Martinus, Reuben
Argile Holder, Theodocia Belle Hedges,
Little Hedges, Everett Lee Hedges, Nora Ivy
Hedges, Ellen Elizabeth Redenour, George J.
Redenour, Calvin Alton Holder, Lucinda
Emeline Adams, Lynn Argile Cobb, Emmet Laton
Adams.
William Holder, Robert Holder, Albert
Holder, R. Dud Holder, Myrtle Holder, Maggie
Lenore Holder, Nettie Hedges, Pearl Coke,
Harvey Coke, Boss Holder. Elva Holder,
Minnie Worbus, Bertha Worbus, John A.
Looney, Ben M. Looney, Henneger Looney, and
Leona Looney, Burton A. Holder, Monroe
Holder, William Holder, Alex B. Holder,
Lemuel Holder, Mattie Holder, Cecil Holder,
Willie L. Holder, Racheal Holder Campbell,
Zollie Barnes, Thomas L. Padgett, F. P.
Henry, Jessie Floyd Henry, and Myrtle Golden
Henry.
I therefore recommend that the above-named
applicants be admitted to citizenship in the
Chickasaw Nation.
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Master in Chancery
March 15, 1898. Judgment was entered
confirming the master's report (certified
copy of judgment hereto attached).
The above decree admitted 93 of the 116
claimants, and rejected the claims of 23.
March 15, 1898. Case appealed to United
States Supreme Court.
August 6, 1899. Mandate of United States
Supreme Court transmitted, directing decree
of lower court to be enforced. Decision of
court reported in 174 United States.
December 17, 1902. Decree of United States
court vacated by decree of Choctaw-Chickasaw
citizenship court in "test case."
March 9, 1903. Case and all records and
papers transferred to citizenship court.
May 30, 1804. Attorney Ledbetter for
claimants moved the court to dismiss the
cases of all claimants except George W.
Holder, who claims both as a blood and
intermarried citizen. Motion denied. No
additional testimony offered. Case
considered on record before commission and
United States court. No opinion in record.
June 29. 1904. Decree entered stating case
was considered on "the law and the
evidence,'' denying all claimants.
Applications were also made to the
commission, within the time prescribed by
law for the enrollment of the following
persons, whose names do not appear in the
judgment of the United States court, but who
are children and grand children of those
thus admitted: Mary Holder, Ollie Holder, J.
Gould Holder, Lois Looney, Anna Lee Looney,
Abbie Holder, Autry Holder, Alpha Holder,
Allen Holder, Nellie Holder, Ester Holder,
Luster Holder, Jewel Francis Holder, Frank
Ford, Clarence R. Ford, Doyle Lee Looney,
Agnes L. Holder, Viola Neta Holder, Bessie
Elizabeth Holder, Deta Theresa Holder, Frank
E. Hedges, Lawrence A. Hedges, Erne May
Hedges, Earnest Jackson Turpen, Ernest
Walls, Lemy Chester Walls, Vertie May Walls,
John Almorine Holder, Alvin Holder, William
Franklin Holder, Lawson Bledsoe Young, James
Young, Robert Lee Young, Gertie Fitch,
Minnie Madill Fitch, Mary Fitch, Ceacle
Marion Looney, Ivy Lolita Looney, William
Alexander Hawk, Eva Louise Looney, Jessie C.
Adams, Otis T. Adams, Owen T. Adams, Viola
Jane Adams, Myrtle Bell Adams.
Statement By Counsel
For Claimants
Counsel for claimants submit that as
there is no evidence in the record of this
case offered by the nations, that it must be
conceded that claimants are what the record
shows them to be. Chickasaw Indians by blood
and residents of the nation long before 1896
that those found to be entitled to
enrollment by the United States court, which
decree was affirmed by the Supreme Court of
the United States, should be enrolled, as
well as the minor children for whom
application was duly made to the commission
within the time prescribed by law. The
claimants thus entitled are: John P. Holder,
Rosebud Holder, George Holder, John Holder,
Minnie B. Holder, Martha S. Holder, Marcia
Holder, Colbert Holder, Benjamin F. Holder,
Elizabeth Looney, Burton Looney, Frankie R.
Looney, William Walter Looney, Thomas
Jefferson Looney, F. E. Looney, Alexander
Looney, Guy Looney, Roy Looney, Ora Looney,
Cora Looney, Milton E. Holder, Rebecca
Holder, Thomas D. Holder, Calvin E. Holder,
Harry L. Holder, Clarie Holder, Frank S.
Holder, Julia Holder, Ida Holder Ford,
Julietta May Ford, Gracie Ford, George W.
Holder, Almorine A. Holder, Arlie Holder,
Rachael A. Young, William J. Young, Mary A.
Walls, Agnes Walls, Frank Walls, Mary E.
Walls, Minta Fitch, William Fitch, William
T. Young, Albert Young, Isaac B. Holder,
Dennis Holder, Evans E. Holder, Roy R.
Holder, Oliver R. Holder, Mary Louisa
Little, Jackson A. Holder, Lucinda Holder,
Larrie Victoria Martinus, Joseph Martinus,
Josephene Martinus, Charles Martinus, Reuben
Argile Holder, Theodocia Belle Hedges,
Lillie Hedges, Everett Lee Hedges, Nora Icy
Hedges, Ellen Elizabeth Ridenour, George J.
Ridenour, Calvin Alton Holder, Lucinda
Emeline Adams, Lynn Argile Cobb, Emmett
Laton Adams, William Holder, Robert Holder,
Albert Holder, Dude Holder, Myrtle Holder,
Maggie Lanore Holder, Nettie Hedge, Pearl
Coke, Harvy Coke, Boss Holder, Elva Holder,
Minnie Worbus, Bertha Worbus, John A.
Looney, Ben M. Looney, Henneger Looney,
Leona Looney, Burton A. Holder, Monroe
Holder, William Holder, Alexander B. Holder,
Lemuel Holder, Mattie Holder, Cecil Holder,
Willie L. Holder, Rachael Holder Campbell,
Zollie Barnes, Thomas L. Padgett, F. P.
Henry, Jessie Floyd Henry, Myrtle Golden
Henry, Mary Holder, Ollie Holder, J. Gould
Holder, Lois Looney, Anna Lee Looney, Abbie
Holder, Autry Holder, Alpha Holder, Allen
Holder, Nellie Holder, Ester Holder, Luster
Holder. Jewel Francis Holder, Frank Ford,
Clarence R. Ford, Doyle Lee Looney, Agnes L.
Holder, Viola Neta Holder, Bessie Elizabeth
Holder, Deta Theresa Holder, Frank E.
Hedges, Lawrence A. Hedges, Erne May Hedges,
Earnest Jackson Turpen, Ernest Walls, Lemy
Chester Walls, Vertie May Walls, John
Almorine Holder, Alvin Holder, William
Franklin Holder, Lawson Bledsoe Young, James
Young, Robert Lee Young, Gertie Fitch,
Minnie Madill Fitch, Mary Fitch, Ceacle
Marion Looney, Ivy Lolita Looney, William
Alexander Hawk, Eva Louisa Looney, Jessie C.
Adams, Otis T. Adams, Owen T. Adams, Viola
Jane Adams, Myrtle Bell Adams.
United States court judgment attached.
Respectfully submitted.
Ballinger & Lee.
In the United States Court, Southern
District, Indian Territory, at Ardmore.
Jno. P. Holder et al. v. Chickasaw Nation.
On this, the 10th day of March 1898, came on
to be heard before me, the undersigned
master in chancery, the application of John
P. Holder et al. for admission to
citizenship in the Chickasaw Nation, and
after hearing the evidence and duly
considering the evidence in support thereof,
I am of the opinion that the applicants
hereafter named are entitled to be enrolled
as citizens of tho Chickasaw Nation.
It appears from the evidence in the case
that the applicants are the descendants of
Elizabeth Colbert, a Chickasaw Indian by
blood, who married n man by the name of
George Stewart; that the said Elizabeth
Colbert and George Stewart had a daughter by
the name Elizabeth Stewart, through whom
these applicants claim, that said Elizabeth
Stewart married a white man by the name of
Bledsoe Holder; that said Bledsoe Holder and
Elizabeth Stewart had a number of children,
among them being William T. Holder, Jackson
A. Holder, and Burton A. Holder; that the
said Bledsoe Holder and wife lived in the
old Chickasaw Reservation in the State of
Mississippi and left the State of
Mississippi with the other Indians en route
to the Indian Territory, but that they
stopped with their children in southwest
Missouri and remained there about 20 years;
that they afterwards came into the Indian
Territory, and finally drifted to the
northern border of Texas and remained there
a number of years. It appears from the
evidence that the said Bledsoe Holder and
Elizabeth Holder and their descendants who
are concerned In this application at all
times claimed to be citizens of the
Chickasaw Nation, and that they lived in mid
about the Chickasaw Nation from time to time
ever since they came west of the Mississippi
River, and that they in fact have Chickasaw
blood in their veins.
I find, therefore, that the following
descendants of the above-named parties are
entitled to be enrolled as citizens of the
Chickasaw Nation:
John P. Holder, Rosebud Holder, George
Holder, John Holder, Minnie R. Holder,
Martha S. Holder, Marcia Holder, and Colbert
Holder.
Benjamin F. Holder.
Elizabeth Looney, Burton Looney, Frankie R.
Looney, William Walter Looney, Thomas
Jefferson Looney, F. R. Looney, Alex Looney,
Guy Looney, Ray Looney, Ora Looney, and Cora
Looney.
Milton E. Holder, Rebecca Holder, Thomas D.
Holder, Calvin E. Holder, Harry L. Holder,
Clarie Holder, Frank S. Holder, Julia
Holder, Ida Holder Ford, Julietta May Ford,
Gracie Ford, George W. Holder, Almorine A.
Holder, and Arlie Holder, Rachael A. Young,
William J. Young; Mary A. Walls, Agues
Walls, Frank Walls, and Mary E. Walls, Minta
Fitch, William Fitch, William T. Young and
Albert Young.
Isaac B. Holder, Dennis Holder, Evans E.
Holder, Roy R. Holder, Oliver R. Holder.
Mary Louisa Little.
Jackson A. Holder, Lucinda Holder, Larrie
Victoria Martinus, Joseph Martinus,
Josephene Martinus, Charles Martinus; Ruben
Argile Holder, Theodocia Belle Hedges,
Lillie Hedges, Everett Lee Hedges, Nora Icy
Hedges, Ellen Elizabeth Ridenour, George J.
Ridenour, Calvin Alton Holder, Lucinda
Emeline Adams, Lynn Argile Cobb, Emmett
Laton Adams.
William Holder, Robert Holder, Albert
Holder, Dude Holder, Myrtle Holder, Maggi
Lanore Holder, Nettle Hedges, Pearl Coke,
Harvy Coke, Boss Holder, Elva Holder, Minnie
Worbus, Bertha Worbus, John A. Looney, Ben
M. Looney, Henneger Looney and Leona Looney,
Burton A. Holder, Monroe Holder, William
Holder, Alex B. Holder, Lemuel Holder,
Mattie Holder, Cecil Holder, Willie L.
Holder, Rachael Holder Campbell, Zollie
Barnes, Thomas L. Padgett, F. P. Henry,
Jessie Floyd Henry, Myrtle Golden Henry.
I therefore recommend that the above-named
applicants be admitted to citizenship In the
Chickasaw Nation.
______ _______,
Master in Chancery.
This Is to certify that I am the officer
having custody of the records pertaining to
the enrollment of the members of the
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and
Seminole Tribes of Indians, and the
disposition of the land of said tribes, and
that the above and foregoing is a true and
correct copy of a copy of the report of the
master in chancery dated March 10, 1898, in
the matter of the application of John P.
Holder et al. for enrollment as members of
the Chickasaw Nation.
J. Geo. Wright, Commissioner to the Five
Civilized Tribes.
By W. H. Angell, Clerk in Charge of
Chickasaw Records.
Transcript Of Proceedings
United States Court,
Indian Territory, southern district, ss:
At a stated term of the United States court
in the Indian Territory, southern district,
begun and had in the court rooms at Ardmore,
in the Indian Territory, on the 15th day of
November, in the year of our Lord 1897.
Present: The honorable Hosea Townsend, judge
of said court.
On the 15th day of March, 1898, being a
regular day of said term of said court,
among the proceedings had were the
following, to wit:
John P. Holder et al.
v. Chickasaw Nation. 77
On this day this cause came on to be
heard upon the report of the master In
chancery, and it appearing to the court,
after duly considering said report, and tho
evidence in support thereof, and the
exceptions thereto that the said report
ought to be confirmed:
It is ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the
court that the report of the master In
chancery In said cause be, and the same is
hereby, confirmed; and It is ordered,
adjudged, and decreed by the court that the
following-named persons are hereby adjudged
to be citizens of the Chickasaw Nation and
entitled to be enrolled as citizens thereof:
John P. Holder, Rosebud Holder, George
Holder, John Pearl Holder, Minnie B. Holder,
Martha S. Holder, Marcia Holder, and Colbert
Holder, Benjamin F. Holder, Elizabeth
Looney, Burton Looney, Frankie R. Looney,
William Walter Looney, Thomas Jefferson
Looney, F. E. Looney, Alex. Looney, Guy
Looney, Roy Looney, Ora Looney, and Corn
Looney, Milton E. Holder, Rebecca Holder,
Thomas D. Holder, Calvin E. Holder, Harry R.
Holder, Clarie Holder, Frank S. Holder,
Julia Holder, Ida Holder Ford, Julietta May
Ford, Grade Ford, George W. Holder, Almorine
A. Holder, and Alice Holder, Racheal A.
Young, William J. Young, Mary A. Walls,
Agues Walls, Frank Walls, and Mary E. Walls,
Minta Fitch, William Fitch, William J.
Young, and Albert Young. Isaac B. Holder,
Dennis Holder, Evans E. Holder, Roy R.
Holder, Oliver R. Holder, Mary Louise
Little, Jackson A. Holder, Lonie Victoria
Martenus, Joseph Martenus, Josephine
Martenus, Charles Martenus, Reuben Argile
Holder, Theodosia Belle Hedges, Lillie
Hedges, Ernest Lee Hedges, Nora Icy Hedges,
Ellen Elizabeth Ridenour, George Joseph
Ridenour, Calvin Alton Holder, Luicinda
Emeline Adams, Lynee Argile Cobb, Ernest
Layton Adams, William Holder, Robert Holder,
Albert Holder, Dude Holder, Myrtle Holder,
Maggie Lanoro Holder, Nettle Hedges, Pearl
Coke, Harvy Coke, Boss Holder, Elvra Holder,
Minnie Warbus, Bertha Warbus, John A.
Looney, Ben M. Looney, Henneger Looney, and
Leona Looney, Burton A. Holder, Monroe
Holder, William Holder, Alex B. Holder,
Lemuel Holder, Mattie Holder, Cecil Holder,
Willie L. Holder, Racheal Holder Campbell,
Zollie Barnes, Mary E. Padgett, Sallie
Henry, Jessie Floyd Henry, Myrtle Golden
Henry, Samantha Looney. It is further
adjudged and decreed by the court that all
the other parties to this suit who applied
for citizenship be and they are hereby,
adjudged not to be citizens of the Chickasaw
Nation. To all that part of the foregoing
judgment and decree which admits all of said
applicants to citizenship in the Chickasaw
Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, by its
attorneys in open court, duly excepted.
Hosea Townsend, Judge
United States Court.
Indian Territory, southern district, ss:
I, C. M. Campbell, clerk of the United
States court within and for the district and
Territory aforesaid, do hereby certify that
the foregoing orders are truly taken and
correctly copied from court journals of said
court, as the same appears to me.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal or said court at
Ardmore this 12th day of March 1903.
C. M. Campbell. Clerk.
By N. H. McCoy, Deputy.
This is to certify that I am the officer
having custody of the records pertaining to
the enrollment of the members of the
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and
Seminole tribes of Indians, and the
disposition of the land of said tribes and
that the above and foregoing Is a true and
correct copy of a certified copy of the
judgment of the court dated November 15,
1897, on file in this office, in the matter
of the enrollment of John P. Holder et al.
as citizens of the Chickasaw Nation.
J. Geo. Wright.
Commissioner to the Fire Civilized Tribes.
By W. H. Angell, Clerk in Charge of
Chickasaw Records.
Notes About the Book:
Source: Five Civilized Tribes In Oklahoma, Reports of the Department of the
Interior and Evidentiary Papers in support of S. 7625, a Bill for the Relief of
Certain Members of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, Sixty-second Congress,
Third Session, Published 1913, by the Department of the Interior, United States.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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