Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

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• Adoption Help from Brandi. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 26, 2011

  Looking for help proving Indian Heritage for my husband. He was born April 7, 1970 at the PHS Indian Hospital in Talihina, Ok and was adopted out to a family that lived in Prague, Ok. We have not had any luck getting his “unamended” birth certificate from the County where…

• Turner - Privett family from Laura Catherine Turner. 3 comments, most recently from Laura Catherine Turner on January 25, 2011

  When I married my husband I was told by his aunt that her mother was mostly American indian. She was Eunice Irene Privett, born in 1900. Her mother was Amanda Bell Stamps, born in 1879, and her father was James A. Privett, born 1873. They were mostly from the Jackson…

• Ellen Cantrell/Lillie Pearl Cantrell Davis from Lisa Hudgens. 3 comments, most recently from Lisa Hudgens on January 23, 2011

  I have found there Choctaw enrollment cards and they were entered in the tribe by the United States Court and there enrollement was overturned by the C.C.C.C. I have been looking for there enrollment cards for about 10 years now. I have a letter from Lillie Pearl to her daughter…

• help me find from Sheri Corral. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 22, 2011

  Hello my name is Sheri Corral and I live in Riverside, California. I recently found my family on Dawes roll and I am so excited. I have always felt in my heart that I was native American I just did not know where to go. Well I need a blood…

• Nancy Easter Looper from Susan Shaw . 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 21, 2011

  Trying to trace Nancy Easter Looper, who married Christopher Hornbuckle (Johnson) and was my great great grandmother. She is either Choctaw or Cherokee. Father was Joseph Looper.

• TAYLOR-NELSON from wind spirit. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 21, 2011

  Am lost looking for roll number. (Choctaw) John Franklin Taylor born TN abt 1860-1861 married to Sarah J (or Sallie J) Wiles or Willis born 1863+1864 ARK Son: Bonnie D Taylor b abt 1883 in TX married Rosa (probably Dolton or Dalton) b abt 1894 in TX Son: Buford Franklin…

• I have my family tree from Dana Reese. 7 comments, most recently from Stephanie Ann McKay Johnson on January 21, 2011

  looking for any relation to Moran Family, Hughes family ,Baggett family, or Reese family all from Choctaw Indian Territory, Texas, Alabama, and Georgia I have alot of interesting info !!!!!

• Sidney Earnest Frazier from Peter Tripp, G-Grandson Sidney Earnest Frazier. 6 comments, most recently from Andre Martin Frazier on January 20, 2011

  Looking for anyone who might know anything about him. He was my Great Grandfather. Any Frazier who may have info please contact me.I do not know who my Great Grandmother was, which would have been his wife. My Grandfather was Gordon Lee Frazier, and he had brothers and a couple…

• Walla Tanka/ AKA William Goings from Bill Goins. 3 comments, most recently from CHERON DYER on January 20, 2011

  Thank you Suzanne. Sorry for the poor grammer. Yes, William Goins married Ada Baker and settled in Stigler. William and Adas’ children were; Roy, Elizabeth, James Harry (my grand father), Ed, Taze, and George. William has a role number and is captured on the Dawes role. Ada was of German…

• Stewart - Andrews family from Laura Catherine Turner. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 20, 2011

  I am searcihng for info on Edward Alex Stewart born in 1876 and his wife Bettie Andrews or Bettie McCann or Cann. They were my greatgrandparents. I am told that they lived in the Caldonia, Mississippi area and that 1 or both were from the Choctaw nation. Any info would…

• Eunice Irene Privett from Laura Catherine Turner on January 20, 2011

  Correction on my earlier entry. Eunice Irene Privett Turner was from the Crocket County, Tennessee area

• Otis E Lee from Barbara Fox. 3 comments, most recently from Barbara Fox on January 17, 2011

  I am trying to find my heritage. I see from my mothers death certificate that her father was Otis E. Lee. I was told that he was from McAlister, OK but he was Cherokee Indian. The research that I have been trying to do shows that he was Choctaw. I…

• Census questions from muzicfreek. 11 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 16, 2011

  Hi. I have been trying to track my maternal line for about a year now. I got stuck on my gg grandmother…. I finally found her…. She lived in Georgia all but 1885 where she is NOT listed in Ga, but in Oklahoma in Skullyville.. and Listed as Indian on…

• help from kimberly. 3 comments, most recently from Victoria Lynn Martin (Green) on January 16, 2011

  i am looking for information on a women named Eula. Her maiden name was Tarbutton and she married into the lyons family we beleive that she was choctaw or chippewa. We are trying to find out which tribe she belonged to we also know that she was born in arkansas…

• Great Grandfather from David Brazell. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 14, 2011

  I am checking on my Great Grandfather Calvin G Gibson Born 4-8-1857 and died 8-16-1927 in Valera Texas. I was told that he was a Choctaw Indian and i want to find out all the information that I can on him.

• NEED HELP FINDING ? from sheley. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 14, 2011

  I need help finding out how to get a birth certifcate on my GG GRANDFATHER.His name was Arthur Eugene Lay. I know he was born on the Choctaw Reservation, but I called and they told me they did not start to keep records of birth till 1908. He was bor…

• Looking for Effie Mae Stephens/Hayes (#256 Choctaw) family from Melissa Smith . 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 12, 2011

  Effie Mae Stephens/Hayes is my Great Great Grandmother. My Great Grandmother is Pansy Viola Stephens or Hayes (not sure which name she was given and she was born in 1909…she had a sister named Merle. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don’t have much information as I am just…

• Truelove/Wilson from eliza chavez. 5 comments, most recently from eliza chavez on January 10, 2011

  I am looking for information on my family. my great grandma (Mary Ellen Wilson) was born August 28, 1903 on the Choctaw Reservation in Oklahoma. Her mother Alva Ophelia Iwildley Truelove was also born in Choctaw Nation Indian Territory in Oklahoma on December 25,1885. Her mother married John Henry Wilson….

• STANTON RESEARCH from martha gujda. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 10, 2011

  Researching the Stanton surname. Allen Stanton marr. Susanna Lyles in 1829 in Alabama. Allen was b. 1795 in KY. (1860 census) Allen was a white man married to Susanna who was 1/2 Choctaw. She was the dau. of John Lyles & Ann Brashears. I’d like information on the children of…

• Looking for Geneology Information for my grandfather - LEON HOUSE from GretaandRosalee. 2 comments, most recently from suzanne hamlet shatto on January 9, 2011

  My mother and I are trying to find confirmation of our family oral history. My grandfather, Leon Judd House, was clearly Native American and said he was of Choctaw descent. We have tried to locate our family in the Dawes Rolls without success. He was born in Oklahoma in 1915,…