Choctaw & Chickasaw Descendants Black History Day 19
Petition to Transfer From Choctaw Freedman Roll to Choctaw By Blood Roll #F-011
Serena WILLIS Choctaw Freedwoman Card #1284
Claimant in Equity Case 7071
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In the matter of the petition of Sorena (sic) Willis, et al., for the correction of the enrollment records of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes in the matter of their enrollment as freedmen of the Choctaw Nation, and for the transfer of their names from the said Freedmen Roll to the roll of Choctaws by blood.
January 15, 1906, there was filed with the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes by Albert J. Lee, attorney for the petitioners, a petition of Mitchell Willis praying that the names of Sorena Willis, Rosa Murphy and Mary Murphy be transferred from the roll of Choctaw Freedmen to the roll of citizens by blood of the Choctaw Nation.
Attached to the petition as (sic) the affidavit of Mitchell Willis, in which he alleges that he is sixty years of age, an enrolled freedman of the Choctaw Nation and lives at the town of Sawyer, Indian Territory, that for the past eleven years Sorena Willis has been his lawful wife, that the said Sorena Willis as a daughter of Pheba, (sic) a half breed Choctaw slave woman by Pitman Colbert a full blood enrolled Chickasaw Indian. The affiant states that he is the administrator of the estate of Rosa Murphy and guardian of Mary Murphy, the daughter of said Rosa Murphy; that Rosa Murphy was the daughter of Mary Russell, who was the daughter of Henry Fulsom, a full blood recognized and enrolled Choctaw citizen by Delila Willis a three quarters blood Choctaw, who was enrolled at Goodland, Indian Territory as a freedman.
No answer to the petition has been filed by the attorneys for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations within the fifteen days allowed for that purpose by the regulations adopted by the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes January 2, 1906.
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| M-1186 Choctaw Freedwoman Card #1351 Front/Rear Serena WILLIS et al., |
 M-1301 Interview Packet Choctaw Freedwoman Card #1351Serena WILLIS, p1  Joe & Dillard Perry Petition to Transfer Files F-011 Serena WILLIS et al., Note: Serena WILLIS never provided testimony about her father; her husband provided the information and referred to her father as "Mr. Mingo" The commissioner took great pains to include that in his report and highlighted the difference from the time of the initial "application" for her land allotments. Years later when Serena and her attorney sought to have her and her children transferred to the Choctaw by Blood Roll the discrepancy was used to refute her claim of Choctaw ancestry. |
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| M-1186 Chickasaw Freedwoman Card #1284 Front/Rear Mary RUSSELL et al., |
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| M-1186 Choctaw Freedman Card #1335 Front/Rear Henry WILLIS |
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Figure 2 Don Martini "Who was Who Among the Southern Indians, a genealogical notebook, 1698-1907 pp146-47 |
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Figure 3 Don Martini "Who was Who Among the Southern Indians, a genealogical notebook, 1698-1907 p239 |
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