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MISSIENIAH ELLISON 

This applicant, forty three years of age, is a daughter of Nancy Jane Sanders.  She thinks her mother was born in 1806 and died in 1856. (Rec., p. 712.) 

SUE A. THOMPSON 

This applicant, thirty six years of age, is a daughter of James M. Thompson, who was a son of Keziah.  She says she presumes her grandmother, Keziah, was living in Mississippi at the time of the treaty, and the head of a family, because her father was born in 1822.

Q.  Was Keziah Thompson a recognized member of the Choctaw tribe of Indians at the time when this Treaty was made, September 27, 1830?

A.  I suppose she was; I have heard of these things, but I have not paid any attention to it.  (Rec., p. 770.) 

EMMA C. CANNON 

This applicant is fifty years of age.  She is a daughter of E. J. C. Thompson, who was a son of Keziah.  She spells the Brashear name R-ra-shier. Keziah married Fleming J. Thompson.  Witness’s own mother was the daughter of a man by the name of Peter Tittle, who likewise had Choctaw blood in him.  In 1830 , Keziah Thompson was a married woman and living in Alabama. (At one place witness seemed to show that Keziah was living in Mississippi at this time, but upon reading her whole testimony it will be found that it was Alabama and not Mississippi.)

Witness’s grandmother, Keziah, went from Alabama to Mississippi at some time between 1830 and 1845.  Witness thinks Keziah had something like one half Indian blood.  Witness’s maternal grandfather, Peter Tittle, had one eighth.  (It is not important to notice this at this place, as no claim is made under it, but it may be given heed merely as showing the relations of applicant’s family with the Choctaw Indians.  (Rec.,p. 777.) 

GEORGE THOMPSON 

This applicant, forty-eight years of age, is a son of E. J. C. Thompson.  He says his father was born in Alabama in 1820, but does not know at what particular place he was born.  He presumes his grandmother, Keziah Brashear, was the head of the family of children in Alabama or Mississippi in 1830, because his father was born in 1820.  (Rec., p. 798.) 

IDA SANDFORD 

This applicant, forty-one years of age, is the daughter of E. J. C. Thompson.  She says her grandmother, Keziah, was living in Mississippi or Alabama in 1830.  (Rec., p. 812.)

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