Lula Thompson Noe

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LULA THOMPSON NOE 

This applicant, twenty-none years of age, is a daughter of E. J. C. Thompson.  She thinks her grandmother was living in Mississippi or Alabama in 1830, as her father was born in 1820.  Witness knows she was living in one place or the other.  Witness’ mother was born in Alabama, but went from there to Mississippi when she was a child, and her father and mother were married in Mississippi December 4, 1845.  (Rec., p. 820.) 

ELIZABETH WOOD 

This applicant is sixty-four years of age, and is the daughter of Jane F. Shipp and the granddaughter of Elizabeth Brashear.  She says her mother had talked a good deal about her family, but that witness’ health had been bad and that she had forgotten a good deal of it.  She says her grandmother, Elizabeth Brashear, was born in South Carolina and died in Alabama.  She was the head of a family there in 1830, in Fayette County or near there.  She lived there a few years and died there.  Witness cannot remember whether her mother said anything to her about Elizabeth Brashear claiming as a Choctaw Indian under Treaty of 1830.  Witness thinks Elizabeth was about sixty five years of age when she died.  (Rec., p. 852.)

(NOTE;--This witness is most probably mistaken, from all the testimony, as to what was the age of Elizabeth at the time of here death, if she died in 1835.) 

SARAH JANE THOMPSON 

Mistress Thompson is not a claimant, but is the mother of a claimant.  She is fifty-three years of age.  She was the wife of W. J. S. Thompson, who was the son of Keziah.  She had lived forty-four years in Texas, and was born in Alabama in 1838.  She later lived in Mississippi, and them in Texas.  She was acquainted with Keziah and her husband, Fleming j. Thompson.  She became acquainted with them in Mississippi in Chickasaw County.  She knew the children of Keziah.  She knew relations of Keziah Thompson other than descendants as follows:  Mary Brashear, Rachael Brashear and Isabel Brashear, ordinarily called “Is.”  She also knew Jim Brashear and Col. Lawrene Brashear, who were brothers of Keziah.  Jim was a deaf and dumb man.  She did not know Elizabeth Brashear, who married E. W. Dumas.  She knew Keziah and Fleming J. Thompson in Mississippi, first in the year 1848.  They moved from Alabama to Mississippi and from Mississippi to Texas.  Fleming J. Thompson died in Texas and was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery.  If the inscription on his tombstone is as read by Louis Dumas it is wrong, in that Fleming Thompson did not move from Alabama to Texas, but moved from Alabama to Mississippi and thence to Texas.  Keziah Thompson was spare-made, dark, and had high cheek bones.  She spoke the Choctaw language some, but was not much of a talker.  Witness had heard Keziah and Fleming talk of living in Kentucky.  She thought they came to Alabama about 1819.  Witness thought Elizabeth Brashear died in Texas somewhere.  Witness did not know whether Keziah was recognized by her neighbors as part Indian, or considered as being possessed of Indian blood in the neighborhood in which she resided.  Jim Brashear, the deaf and dumb man, died in

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