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Mississippi Choctaw Investment Company
The Mississippi Choctaw are Indians of low order of
intelligence. They were imported into this country in 1902 and 1903 by land
companies, among which was the Choctaw Investment Company, now defunct, and J.
E. Arnold. They were herded in barracks around Ardmore and other places during
1902, 1903, and 1904: the small pox broke out among them and they died like
sheep. Before they left Mississippi, contracts were made with them in which they
agreed to prove up on their lands and sell them to the promoters.
The stockholders of the Choctaw Investment Company and other non-residents
furnished the money and have stood the loss, but J. E. Arnold and Senator Owen
are now pressing before the Court of Claims large amounts for allowances. To
secure these claims if allowed J. E. Arnold has filed a lien upon almost every
allotment of Mississippi Choctaw in these two nations. Congress has recognized
these claims by permitting them to be litigated. (The American Indian in the
US, 1850-1914, Warren King Morehead)
This was all I could find online regarding the
Mississippi Choctaw Investment Company and in this calls it the Choctaw
Investment Company so I can't be sure it is even the correct one.
Lorraine was
kind enough to furnish the 2 papers he has
of her great, great, great grandmother from
1919, that she signed in Pottsville, Texas.
Indian
Genealogy
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