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Sallie Colbert,
Chickasaw Minor
The following record was submitted by
Ballinger & Lee:
Department Of The Interior
Muskogee, Okla., December 8, 1910.
In the matter of the
application for the enrollment of Sallie
Colbert as a minor
Chickasaw by blood.
Proceedings had at McAlester, Okla.,
December 1, 1910, before W. C. Pollock,
assistant attorney, Interior Department.
Appearances: M. M. Lindley, of McAlester,
attorney for claimant: McCurtain & Hill, by
D. C. McCurtain, attorneys for Choctaw
Nation.
Edmon Colbert, being duly sworn and examined
as a witness, testified as follows:
By Mr. Pollock:
Q. What is your name? -
A. Edmon Colbert.
Q. Where do you live? -
A. Reydon, used to be Guertie.
Q. How old are you? -
I enrolled 30 years old in 1903; about 38
years old, I reckon.
Q. What roll are you on? -
A. Well. I don't know: I am Chickasaw.
Q. How much Indian blood have you?-
A. Well, I don't know, on the roll as full
blood.
Q. What is your wife's name? -
A. Martha.
Q. Is she a Chickasaw? -
A. She's Chickasaw.
Q. Full blood? -
A. Well, I can't say.
Q. When were yon married? -
A. Well. I don't know what time we ever did
get married; it's been a long time since.
By Mr. Lindley:
Q. How many years? -
A. Well, I couldn't say; I don't want to
tell anything I don't know.
By Mr. Pollock:
Q. How many children have you?-
A. Got five.
Q. Are any of them on the rolls? -
A. Yes: all but two; one died and one
living.
Q. What Is the name of the one that died? -
A. One named Isaac.
Q. He is the one that died?-
A. Yes, sir.
Q. When was he born? -
A. Well. I don't know really what date It
was; I never paid no attention to it.
Q. Was he born after the others were
enrolled? -
A. No; before the others.
Q. Had he died before the others were
enrolled?-
A. Yes.
Q. Had he died before 1902? -
A. It was along there somewhere when he died
Q. Did you make any application for him to
be enrolled? -
A. No: never did make no application. They
always said wasn't no use.
Q. Now what is the other child's name not on
the roll? -
A. Sallie.
Q. When was Sallie born?-
A. 1905.
Q. What month?-
A. October 28.
Q. How do you remember the date that Sallie
was born? -
A. We went out to play a ball game out in
the country.
Q. You fix the time of her birth by that?-
A. Yes.
Q. Is Sallie still living? -
A. Yes; she's living today.
Q. Yon didn't bring her in with you? -
A. No: I was out here, and I just heard
about it, and I just came over to see how it
was, and I thought I would come on when I
heard it: I didn't want to get left out.
Q. You didn't leave home, then, to come in
here and make an application?- A. No.
Q. What midwife waited on your wife when
Sallie was born? -
A. Lizzie Lewis.
Q. Is she still living?-
A. Yes, sir; mother-in-law of mine.
Q. Your wife's mother? -
A. Yes.
By Mr. McCurtain:
Q. Sallie is living yet, is she? -
A. Yes; she's living.
Mr. McCurtain. Well. I suggest. If you are
going to take the statement of the midwife,
that the midwife be brought before Mr.
Brink, and at the same time let the child be
produced.
It is agreed to by all parties in interest
that the additional evidence to be taken in
this case shall be heard at the office of
District Agent Brink on Friday, December 9.
By Mr. Pollock:
Q. Did you make any record when this child
Sallie was born?-
A. No; I didn't keep anything of that kind.
When we file them that is all the records of
any kind that we ever had.
(Witness excused.)
On Chickasaw card No. 287 appears the
names of Edmon Colbert, his wife, Martha,
and their two children. Joshua and Ben
Colbert, opposite final approved roll Nos.
903, 4569, 904, and 4570, respectively.
On Chickasaw newborn card No. 35 (act of
Mar. 3, 1905) appears the name of Holman
Colbert, opposite roll No. 27, child of
Edrnon and Martha Colbert.
On Chickasaw minor card No. 236 (act of Apr.
26, 1906) appears the name of Selina
Colbert, opposite roll No. 154, child of
Edmon and Martha Colbert.
Albert G. McMillan, being duly sworn, states
that he reported the proceedings had in the
above-entitled cause and that the foregoing
is a true and correct transcript of his
stenographic notes.
Albert G. McMillan.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th
day of December 1910.
Harry Montague, Notary Public.
State Of Oklahoma, Pittsburg County, ss:
Martha Colbert states that she is 38 years
of age; that she is one of the legal heirs
of John Lewis, deceased, being a daughter;
that her said father, John Lewis died on the
8th day of May, 1903, as near as she can
remember; that he always refused to go and
be enrolled for any purpose whatever and
more especially for the purpose of
allotment, that for this reason her mother
and the other children have been deprived of
his estate as a full blood Choctaw which
they are legally entitled.
Wherefore affiant asks that his name be
placed on the roll of the Choctaw Tribe as a
full blood, which he was and that his estate
be distributed to his legal heirs as is by
law provided.
Martha (her thumb mark) Colbert.
Witnesses to mark:
William Nail.
Edmond Jones.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this the
19th day of July, 1911.
[seal.] F. D. Ungles, Notary Public.
My commission expires October 2, 1932.
State or Oklahoma, Pittsburg County, ss:
Hallucher Lewis, being first duly sworn
states that her age is ___ years; her post
office is Gertie, Okla.: that she is the
widow of one John Lewis, who died on the 8th
day of May, 1903; that he was a full blood
Choctaw and refused to go anywhere and be
enrolled for the purpose of allotment, and
that for this reason she and his children,
to wit: Martha Colbert, nee Lewis, Ellen
Homer, nee Lewis, Dixon Lewis, a minor, and
Mollie Lewis, the widow of Thompson Lewis,
deceased, have been deprived of his
allotment, an estate to which they are
legally entitled.
Wherefore she prays that bis name be placed
on the rolls of the full blood Choctaws and
his estate be distributed to his legal heirs
as is by law provided.
Hallucher (her thumb mark) Lewis.
Witnesses:
William Nail,
Edmond Jones.
Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 19th
day of July 1911.
[seal.] F. D. Uncles, Notary Public.
My commission expires October 2. 1912.
State Of Oklahoma, Hughes County, ss:
Ellen Homer states that she is 20 years of
age; that she is one of the legal heirs of
John Lewis, deceased, being a daughter; that
her said father, John Lewis, died on the 8th
day of May, 1903, as near as she can
remember, that he always refused to go and
he enrolled for any purpose whatever and
more especially for the purpose of
allotment, that for this reason her mother
and the other children have been deprived of
his estate as a full-blood Choctaw which
they are legally entitled.
Wherefore affiant asks that his name be
placed on the roll of the Choctaw Tribe as a
full-blood, which he was and that his estate
be distributed to his legal heirs as is by
law provided.
Ellen (her x mark) Homer.
Witnesses to mark:
G. G. Givens.
M. P. Ahchburn.
The name of Ellen Homer signed by me at her
request as she can not write. Subscribed and
sworn to before me this the 31st day of July
1911.
G. G. Givens, Notary Public.
My commission expires March 28, 1915.
Birth Affidavit
Department Of The Interior,
Commissioner To The Five Civilized Tribes.
[Enrollment of minors. Act of Congress
approved Apr. 26, 1906.]
In re application for enrollment as a member
by blood of Chickasaw Nation of Gertie, born
on the 18th day of October 1905. Name of
father, Edmon Colbert, a citizen of the
Chickasaw Nation. Name of mother, Martha
Colbert, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.
Tribal enrollment of father. Chickasaw full
blood. Tribal enrollment of mother,
Chickasaw by blood. Enrollment number of
father. No. 903. Enrollment number of
mother, No. 1970. Post office. Gertie, Okla.
Affidavit Of Mother
State Of Oklahoma, Pittsburg County, ss:
I, Martha Colbert, on oat, state that I am
38 years of age and a citizen by blood of
the Chickasaw Nation: that I am the lawful
wife of Edmon Colbert, who is a citizen by
blood of the Chickasaw Nation; that a female
child was born to me on 18th day of October,
1905: that said child has been named Sallie
Colbert, and was living March 4, 1906, and
is now living.
Martha (her thumb mark) Colbert.
Witnesses to mark:
Edmond Jones,
William Nail.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th
day of July 1911.
[ Seal.] F. D. Uncles, Notary Public.
My commission expires October 2, 1912.
Affidavit Of Attending
Physician Or Midwife
State Of Oklahoma, Pittsburg County, ss:
I, Hallucher Lewis, a midwife, grandmother
of child, on oath, state that I attended on
Martha Colbert, wife of Edmon Colbert, on
the 18th day of October, 1911: that there
was born to her on said date a female child;
that said child was living March 4, 1906,
and is said to have been named Sallie
Colbert, and is living at this date.
Hallucher (her thumb mark) Lewis.
Witnesses to mark:
Edmond Jones,
William Nail.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th
day of July 1911.
[seal.] F. D. Ungles, Notary Public.
My commission expires October 2, 1912.
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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