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Surname Nickey to Owens
Nickey, Maggie (now John).
Nickey, Billy.
Nickey, Bettie Russel.
Nickey, Mollie Mass.
Nickey, Sam.
Mississippi Choctaws. Files: Report of November 15, 1907, from Commissioner to
the Five Civilized Tribes. These applicants were embraced in the Mississippi
Choctaw application of Nancy Nickey, made at Meridian, Miss., April 25, 1901,
for the identification of herself and said children, and also for her child.
Lizzie Nickey, who died in the year 1901, as Mississippi Choctaws. Said Nancy
Nickey was identified as a full-blood Mississippi Choctaw May 17, 1904,
September 13, 1904, the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes denied the
identification as full-blood Mississippi Choctaws of the above named children,
and said decision was approved by the department December 13, 1904 (I. T. D.
12338- 1904), January 12, 1907 (I. T. D. 82-1907), the department ordered a
rehearing in the matter of the application of said Maggie Nickey, and on March
4, 1907, Commissioner Bixby wired the department as follows:
"Referring to departmental letter of January twelfth, nineteen seven (I. T. I),
eighty-two-nineteen seven), ordering rehearing in application of Maggie Nickey,
now Maggie John, for identification as Mississippi Choctaw, sufficient evidence
has been received by me today to Identify this applicant as full-blood
Mississippi Choctaw, and such action has accordingly been taken on this date by
me. Sufficient evidence is also on file with this office showing bona fide
settlement within Choctaw-Chickasaw country. Recommend that her name be placed
on schedule of identified Mississippi Choctaws, and also on final roll of
Mississippi Choctaws and approved by you today. Maggie Nickey is twenty years
old, removed to Choctaw-Chickasaw country in February, nineteen hundred three,
and submitted proof of settlement on February fifth, nineteen seven. Her name
appears on Mississippi Choctaw card number nine hundred seventeen."
March 13, 1907 (I. T. D., S210-1907), the department advised the commissioner
that as the telegram was not received until March 5, 1907, "It is not considered
that the department has now the authority to place said Maggie Nickey, or Maggie
John, upon the roll of Mississippi Choctaws." On March 4, 1907, the commissioner
rendered his decision, refusing the application of Lizzie Nickey for
Identification, she having died too soon to be entitled to such identification,
and granted the application for the identification of said Maggie, Billy, Sam,
Bettie Russell, and Mollie Mass Nickey as full-blood Mississippi Choctaws. The
commissioner advised the department of this action on March 6, 1907, and stated
that—
"Considering, however, the fact that but a few hours remained before the closing
of the rolls of citizenship, no action was taken as to the notification of said
parties as to their identification for the reason that the said Billy and Sam
Nickey are residents of Paulding, Miss., and Bettie Russell Nickey, of Mosell,
Miss., and Mollie Mass Nickey, of Sylvarena, Miss., and it would have been
impossible for them to have removed to and settled within the Choctaw-Chickasaw
country and submitted proof thereof, as required by section 41 of the act of
Congress approved July 1, 1902 (32 Stat., 641), within which time for their
enrollment to have been approved by you on March 4, 1907.''
March 10, 1907 (I. T. D., S510-19O7), the department, in reply to the
commissioner's letter, stated that it had no authority to further act in the
case. I believe that authority should be granted for the placing of the name of
Maggie Nickey upon the final roll of Mississippi Choctaws, and that upon her
compliance with the law, a final allotment of land be given her. As to the other
applicants first named. I believe that a reasonable time, say, six months,
should be given them within which to establish a bona fide residence in the
Choctaw-Chickasaw country, and that upon the proof of such settlement they be
enrolled as Mississippi Choctaws, and upon their compliance with the law as
related to Mississippi Choctaws, they be given final allotments of land in the
Choctaw- Chickasaw country.
Oakball,
Cherokee by blood. Files: Report Acting Commissioner to Five Civilized Tribes.
January 13, 1910, addressed to the Hon. J. George Wright. ______ Oakball. child
of White and Susan Oakball, Cherokees. No application of record. Number of
claimants In this memorandum, 1.
Olson, on Oldson (nee Bellvell,
Rose).
Bellvell, Zena.
Bellvell, Mollie.
Choctaws by blood. Files: Part II, Exhibit
F, report March 3, 1909. The statements
which follow are based upon the allegations
of Rose Olson made at the office of district
Indian agent, Tishomingo, November 10, 1908.
Mrs. Olson is a quarter-blood Choctaw and
the daughter of David and Georgia Green
Bellvell. She has two sisters, whose names
appear above. Green was her mother's maiden
name. It is through her she claims Choctaw
blood. Mrs. Olson says she made no
application for enrollment, because she had
no one to look after it for her until she
married. She was born in the Choctaw Nation
near Atoka, and resided there and in other
places in the Indian Territory. Her mother
died when she was 5 years old, and n little
later she was taken to Texas by her father,
a traveling man. He married again, and Rose,
when 15 or 16 years old, left home because
of the unkindness of her stepmother. The
principal claimant states that when she was
a child the family lived for a month with a
family of Choctaws named Pryor Allen. Number
of claimants In this memorandum, 3.
Owens, Martha Ann.
Owens, Henry.
Choctaw freedmen. Files: Report of November
15, 1907, from Commissioner to Five
Civilized Tribes, Applications were received
December 29, 1902, by the Commission to the
Five Civilized Tribes for the enrollment of
Martha Ann Owens, born November 18, 1899,
and Henry Owens, born January 20, 1902, and
who were living September 25, 1902. The
applicants are the minor children of Tom and
Charlotte Owens, whose names appear opposite
Nos. 2779 and 2780, respectively, upon the
approved roll of Choctaw freedmen.
Number of claimants In this memorandum, 2.
Owens, Mollie, et al. (including
Children and grandchildren).
Chickasaw freedmen. Files: Record on file in
Indian Office. (See also statement of
claimant made Nov. 27, 1908, at office of
district Indian agent, Muskogee, Okla.: see
Part III. Exhibit F. report Mar. 3, 1909.)
This woman was undoubtedly a Chickasaw
freedman. Her brother, Sam Williams, is
enrolled as such. She was born near
Doaksville, in the Choctaw-Chickasaw
country, and has resided therein many years,
except portions of the time In Texas. She
was known to the district agent as a person
of good character and unusually industrious.
Valuable lands which she has held and
improved for years, containing her home,
have been allotted to others. Her
application was denied, but It Is believed
that her cause is of such unusual merit as
to deserve reconsideration.
Number of claimants in this memorandum,
approximately, 14.
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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