No. 28349 - 1963
Martha Smith, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
My name is Martha Smith: My post-office is Campbell, Okla.: I am about fifty-two years old: I was born in Missouri; my father's name was Hyram; he was born in Tennessee; he was born in 1822-1823; he left Tennessee about 1850 and moved to Missouri: Hyram's father was named Lewis Tyner; his father came with him to Missouri; I make my claim only through him; I never heard my father say that he was enrolled but I heard him say that he was a Cherokee; I knew my grand-father Lewis; I have never been enrolled as a Cherokee; I first came to Indian Territory about 1876; I went back to Arkansas and then came back here about 1886-7. I have a daughter, Lizzie, twenty-two; her name now is Lonnie; she lived about three miles from Campbell; she has been married four years the twenty-sixth of last month; my daughter, Minnie will be twenty years old this month; she is not married and is living at home with me; I have a son Rufus who is seventeen, John who is fiften; I have never been with any other tribe than the Cherokee Indians: I do not know why my father, Hyram was not enrolled with the Cherokees.
Suscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of March 1909 at Vian, Okla.
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