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Note for: Willian M. Neel, MAY 1830 - 12 JUL 1908
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William served in the Civil War as a private in CO. "I" 36 AL Inf. CSA.
He was discharged Jan. 23, 1863
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Note for: Jeptha (Jepsy) E. Clark, 25 MAY 1849 - 18 DEC 1931
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Jeptha did not have middle name so he always used the first two letters
of first name for initials.
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Note for: Simeon S Strickland, ABT 1778 - 1836
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Simon commenced service in Lt Col Nixon's Reg't Mississippi Militia April
23, 1814. Is listed as in Capt. James Thompson's Co. in the Mississippi
Territory Militia War 0f 1812. The date of his service expires October
22, 1814. He is serving at Fort Claiborne on the Alabama October 7, 1814.
His time of service was for six months.
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Department Of the Interior
Office of Indian Affairs
Washington, D C
Nov 14, 1882
S S Strickland Esq.
Wayne County, Waynesboro, Mississippi
Sir:
In reply to the inquiry contained in your letter of October 28, 1882
respecting Creek Indian lands and how title thereto may be acquired, you
are advised that the land you refer to is presumed to be the Creek Indian
reservation Indian Territory, which is not for sale or other disposal but
belongs to the Creek Nation for the sole use and occupancy of said Nation.
If your purpose be to become incorporated in that tribe through your
mother, which you allege to be of Creek descent, you are referred to the
Principal Chief of the Creek Nation, Samuel Checote, of Okmulgee, Indian
Territory for information and direction in the premises.
Certain Creek Indians held reservations under the treaty of 1832. By
the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1837 (5 states p 186) the
President of the United States was authorized to sell all such reserves
as remained, unsold after the 4th of April 1837. A list of these
reservations is given in a report from the Office dated May 10, 1881,
which was enclosed in your letter of the 28th -ultimo.
Very respectfully,
H Price
Commissioner
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John A Ramey
Superintendent of Education of
Wayne County, Ms
Waynesboro, Miss Sept 15, 1906
Commissioner Indian Affairs
Washington, D C
Dear Sir:
I desire certain information in regard to the distribution of lands
in the Creek Indian Nation to Indians and mixed breeds.
About sixteen years ago Mr. Sim S. Strychland and son Solomon
Strychland went from here to Muscogee, and registered their claim there
as quarter Indian and made what was told them to be all necessary proof.
They were told that their claim was alright, and that they were entitled
to a certain sum of money and tract of land, and were informed that the
matter would have to be sent to Washington for final settlement. Mr
Strychland has the papers that were given to him by the clerk, a Mr
Owens, at Muscogee.
The mother of Sim S. Strychland was Jennie Hale, a half Creek
Indian, who came to Mississippi from Fishertown, Alabama. She was married
to Sim S. Strychland.
Now, what they want to know is: Are thy entitled to land or money
from the government? If they are entitled to land, will it be necessary
for them to go to the Creek Nation to get, or could they draw it and sell
it without going there?
I will appreciate very much indeed any information that you will
give me in regard to this matter, mentioning the steps necessary for them
to take in order to draw from the Government what is due them.
Thanking you very kindly for any information that you will give us,
I am,
Yours very respectfully,
J A Ramey
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Note for: Jane (Jennie) Hale, 1790 - AFT 1840
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According to a letter written in behalf of Sim S and Solomon Strickland
by a Mr John A Ramey Supt. of Education of Wayne County, Ms., to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated September 15, 1905, Jane Hale, their
mother, is described as a half Creek Indian, being from Fishertown,
Alabama, and they as being one fourth Indian.
This Fishertown I believe is the same as, Fish Ponds, the village where
Hannah Hale lived and where Jane Hale grew up. Fish Ponds is located in
Coosa County near the present Town of Hissop, Alabama on a branch of the
Tallpoosa, River.
Hannah is described by Benjamin Hawkins as being the wife of the Head Man
of the Creek village of Thlot-lo-gul-gau; (thlot-lo= fish and ul-gau=
all) called by traders as fish ponds. It was a small pond like creek, a
branch of Ul-kau-hat-che, which joins Tallapoosa four miles above
Ocfuskee. The town is fourteen miles up the creek.
State of Mississippi
Wayne County
Personally appears before me J V Cooley, a Justice of the Peace in Wayne
Count, Mississippi. Mrs Matilda McLean, who being by me duly sworn, makes
oath that she was well acquainted with Jennie Strickland nee Jennie Hale
that she knew her up till her death that during all the time off and was
acquainted with her she was a resident of Wayne County, Mississippi, that
she was the mother of children, whose names were as follows: Mrs
_____Hartley, Mrs Poly Cochran, Mrs Ann Carlisle, Mrs Patience DePriest,
Mrs Elizabeth Henderson, and Redy Strickland, who afterward married but
affiant is unable to state to whom. Also John Strickland, Sol Strickland,
Sim Strickland, and Sam Strickland that the said Sim Strickland died
about six years ago leaving a widow, Mrs Eliza Strickland, and thirteen
children, to wit Solomon Strickland, William Strickland, David
Strickland, Albert J Strickland, George Strickland, John Strickland, Mrs
Martha Jane Cooley, Elize Stephens, Liddia Stephens, Bell Waters, Vina
Harrison, and Julia Harrison and Louisa Davis. Affiant further defeces
that the said Mrs Jennie Strickland was part Indian being half white
person.