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John F. Sanders, continued

Q.    “Do you know if any of your ancestors ever complied or attempted to comply with any of the provisions of that Article?”

A.     “I heard them talk about these things, but I have no knowledge of the facts.”—The reference is to article fourteen, (Rec., p. 646.) 

EMSLEY M. SANDERS 

            This applicant, fifty-six years old, is a grandson of Keziah and a son of Nancy Jane and William T. Sanders.  He knew his grandmother, Keziah; thinks the amount of Indian Blood she had was one-fourth.  He had heard her speak the Indian language, and she told the children it was Choctaw; heard her say a few words; never heard her right along in a conversation.  He had heard her say she could talk Indian when she was with them.  The witness had heard her at one time talking to some man and she said, “ That man has as much Indian blood as I have.”  They talked in English and a little in Indian, and the Indian she used was the same which she had used to the children and told them was Choctaw.  The witness could not say it was Choctaw.

Q.    “You answer my question; were those Choctaw Indians, and was she talking to Choctaw Indians in the Choctaw language?”

A.     “I could not say that is was the Choctaw language.”

Q.    “Were they Choctaw Indians?”

A.  “They said they were.”   (Rec., p. 663.) 

CYNTHIA JANE DICKEN 

This applicant, fifty-one years of age, is a daughter of Nancy Jane Sanders.  Keziah Brashear, her grandmother, lived in Alabama and Mississippi.  She had one-fourth Choctaw blood.  She heard Keziah speak of living in Alabama; of being in the first settling of it.  She had heard of her speaking the Choctaw language.  (Rec. p. 69r.) 

WILLIAM T. SANDERS

This applicant, fifty years old, is a son of the above-named William T. Sanders, who married Nancy Jane Thompson.  He says he knew his grandmother, Keziah.  She lived in Alabama and Mississippi, but he does not know whether she lived there in 1830, and never heard her say whether or not she had Indian blood.  He thinks he has heard her say something about Col. Ward, but cannot remember what it was that she said.  He does not know anything with regard to what was done towards complying with the fourteenth article.  (Rec., p. 700.) 

JAMES P. SANDERS 

This applicant, if forty-five years of age, and a grandson of Keziah.  He knew her, but did not know whether she claimed Choctaw blood.  (Rec. p. 706.)

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