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Mississippi.  Ben Brashear she did not know.  Witness knew nothing as to the attempted compliance with the Treaty.  (Rec., p. 820.)

NOTE;--Witness’ memory is at fault as to the place where Elizabeth died.

LOUIS DUMAS           

This applicant is forty-five years of age, and is the son of Mary A. E. Dumas and J. P. Dumas.  As he “figures it out,” he has one-sixteenth or one-eighth Choctaw blood, his father and mother both having that blood.  Keziah Thompson and Fleming J. Thompson were husband and wife in 1830, but this witness did not know wheteher they were living in Alabama at that time.  He knew his grandmother Thompson in Texas.  She died when he was about ten or eleven years old.  Witness was a little fellow and was often with her.  He was taught as a matter of family history that he had Choctaw blood in his veins.  He went to ElmGrove Cemetery, in Collin County, Texas and copied the inscription on the tombstone of his grandfather, Fleming J. Thompson.  It was this: “Fleming J. Thompson, born January the 3^rd, 1797, died August the 30^th, 1872.  This world is a little matter.  Was born in Mecklenburg District, Virginia, came to Kentucky and married; thence to Alabama; thence to Texas , which shows a pioneer life.  He also copied the inscription on Keziah’s tombstone, which was as follows; “Born October the 28^th, 1797, died February the 8^th, 1870.  I have fought a good fight;  I have finished my course;  I have kept the faith.”  (Rec., p. 632.)

This applicant again appeared before the Commission to testify with regard to the way in which he happened to find the testimony of Tobias Edwards.  He said that in October, 1901, he was on a hunt on Boggy Bayou, in the Indian Territory, and

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