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Surname Gamblin to
Greenleaf
Gamblin, John H.. et al.
Choctaws by blood. Indian Office files: Land
24250-1909. These applicants wore adjudged
to be entitled to enrollment by the
Commissioner to Five Civilized Tribes
February 14, 1907. This action was taken
under certain rulings of the department
relating to the jurisdiction of the
Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to which
It was the practice to hear and adjudicate
such cases upon their merits notwithstanding
prior adverse action. This construction was
not concurred in by the Attorney General,
who, in an opinion rendered February 19,
1907, he'd, or at least seemed to hold, that
the Secretary of the Interior had been
exercising jurisdiction in cases wherein he
had no authority to act. As a result of said
opinion of the Attorney General, the
Secretary of the Interior, on March 1, 1907.
solely on jurisdictional grounds rescinded
the favorable decision theretofore rendered
by the Commissioner to Five Civilized
Tribes, the result being that the applicants
failed to secure enrollment. Assuming the
correctness of the commissioner's decision,
they were entitled, upon the merits of their
cases, to be enrolled.
Number of claimants In this memorandum,
approximately, 5.
Garland (Christian name not known).
(Minor.)
Choctaw by blood. Files: See memorandum of
information obtained tit Hugo. Okla.,
November 12, 1912. with Part I, Exhibit F.
report of March 3, 1909. This child is
entitled to enrollment and is now living
with a family near Nesholi, Okla. Mr. Hudson
has been informed that the child is the
offspring of Simon Garland but that the
facts concerning its birth were of such a
nature that they were suppressed and no
application made In order to save the family
pride.
Number of claimants In this memorandum, 1.
Gatewood, Alice, et al.
Chickasaw. She seeks transfer from Chickasaw
freedman roll to Chickasaw blood roll,
claiming that her mother was a full-blood
Indian and a blood relation of Sarah Jane
Sanders, on approved Chickasaw rolls
opposite No. 2093. This claim includes the
children of Alice Gatewood and her grandson,
Theodore D. Roosevelt Logan. No. 6.
Geggs, (Son of Gilbert or
Joseph Geggs.)
Choctaw by blood. Files: Statement of Edward
Dukes, ex-governor of the Choctaw Nation,
made November 13, 1908, at office of
district Indian agent, Antlers, Okla. Mr.
Dukes states that this claimant. Mr. Geggs,
is his nephew and he believes him to be a
one-fourth blood Choctaw. Geggs married a
Choctaw woman and therefore claims both by
blood and intermarriage.
Number of claimants in this memorandum, 1.
Givens, Luther.
Givens. (Christian name unknown).
(Deceased.)
Creeks by blood. Files: Part III, reported
March 3. 1909. It is claimed that Luther
Givens was born in February 1906: that his
father is enrolled as a Creek citizen: that
his mother is a full-blood Creek, and also
enrolled. It. is also claimed that no
application was made for the enrollment of
the child, because the parents were
prevented by high water from meeting the
field party which was in charge of
enrollment in the Creek Nation.
Number of claimants In this memorandum, 2.
Goins, Ransom, et al
Goins, Reuben, et al
Goins, Ransom, Jr.
Southern, Mrs. William
Choctaws by blood. Files: Part II. Exhibit
F. report March 3, 1909. Ransom and Reuben
Goins are brothers. Mrs. Southern is their
sister. All claim to be half-blood Choctaws.
The two men appeared at the office of the
district Indian Agent, at Pauls Valley,
Okla., November 20, 1908, and made
statements as to their claims. Both me
obviously some kind of Indian blood, and
Ransom speaks the Choctaw language.
Residence, Indian Territory since 1875.
Reuben also claims that he has a right as an
intermarried Chickasaw, by reason of
marriage to his present wife. Ransom Coins,
jr., Is a son of Ransom Coins, sr.
Number of claimants in this memorandum, 4.
Grass, Josie.
Cherokee by blood. Files: Report Acting
Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes.
January 15. 1!)10, addressed to Hon. J.
George Wright. Josie Grass, age 5 years,
child of Tom and Betsy Crass, Cherokees.
Number of claimants in this memorandum, 1.
Grazier, Viola. Afton, Okla.
Cherokee by blood. Files: Report of November
15 1907, from Commissioner to the Five
Civilized Tribes. Case No. 4079. Viola
Grazier was born August 20, 1902. and is a
child of Homer H. Grazier, whose name
appears upon the approved roll of citizens
by blood of the Cherokee Nation, opposite
No. 0841, being enrolled as three-eighths
Indian, and one Dora Grazier, a noncitizen:
of the Cherokee Nation. The application for
her enrollment was made October 3, 1902, and
on February 20. 1907, the former
commissioner rendered his decision ordering
her enrolled as a citizen by blood of the
Cherokee Nation. No protest against her
enrollment was filed by the attorney for the
Cherokee Nation, but through oversight she
was not placed upon a schedule of Cherokee
citizens and forwarded for departmental
approval. Number of claimants in this
memorandum, 1.
Greenleaf, Mary W.
Greenleaf. Robert W. (Minor.)
Greenleaf, Margaret M. (Minor.)
Cherokees by blood. Files: Record on file in
Indian Office. (Sce also opinion of A. A. G.
for Interior Department. December 14, 1904.)
These claimants are undoubtedly Cherokees by
blood. Mary W. Greenleaf Is the mother of
the other applicants and is the daughter of
Amos Williamson, a white man. and a Cherokee
woman named Margaret Williamson, now
Brackett. whose name appears upon the
confirmed Cherokee roll of 1880. The parents
separated in 1855, and Mary W. Greenleaf was
taken from the Cherokee Nation, of which she
was a citizen by birth, by her father to one
of the States. Her Cherokee nativity and
blood were concealed from her until
September. 1900, when they were disclosed to
her by her stepmother. As appears from the
opinion of the A. A. G.. referred to above,
the applicants were entitled to enrollment
as a matter of right, but that for
jurisdictional reasons the commission to the
Five Civilized Tribes had no authority to
enroll them.
Number of claimants in this memorandum. 4.
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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