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Subject: [NC-FREEDMEN] MILLER APP.# 25347 Ella Maryfield, Mayfield, Merrifield, Rowe, Rodgers, Brown, K
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 17:41:57 EST

NOTE: IN THIS APPLICATION THE APPLICANT USES AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT
SPELLINGS OF HER NAME. SHE DOES HOWEVER LIST HER NAME IN THE SWORN AFFIDAVIT
AS : ''ELLA MAYFIELD".


Hi Everyone,

PLEASE NOTE ALL RESPONSES TO QUESTION ARE IN CAPS.

Below are the questions asked on the Miller Applications I have sent you info
on in the Freedmen Project work. I hope to get at least two a week submitted.
For those of you who cannot afford these NARA applications, I would advise
that after you confirm it is your line, that you send for the packet, for
source proof. Remember geneology is nothing without documentation.

Page 1)
Application # 25347
Action Taken- ADMITTED
Name of applicant--ELLA MARYFIELD
No. of children--2
Residence--TALALA, OK
Reason---- GREAT NIECE OF #557, AND CLAIMS THRU SAME

Page 2)

SPECIAL COMMISSIONER of the COURT of CLAIMS,601 Ouray Building, Washington
D.C.
Sir,I hereby make application for such share as may be due me of the fund
appropriated by the ACT of CONGRESS, appoved June 30, 1906, in accordance
with the decrees of the COURT of CLAIMS of May 18,1905, and May28, 1906, in
favor of the eastern Cherokees. The evidence of identity is herewith
subjoined.Note: Answers to all questions should be short, but complete. If
you can not answer, so state.

Question # 1)State full name:
English name---ELLA MAYFIELD
Indian name-NONE

#2)Residence--TALALA
and Post Office--

#3)County--CHEROKEE NATION

#4)State--INDIAN TERRITORY

#5)How old are you?--22YEARS OLD Born: JUNE 15TH,1885

#6)Where were you born? --NEAR FT. GIBSON, INDIAN TERRITORY

#7)Are you married?--YES

#8)Name and age of wife or husband--GEORGE MERRIFIELD

#9)To what tribe of Indians do he or she belong?--NONE

#10)Name all your children who were living on May 28, 1906, giving their ages.

Name--ORA MERRIFIELD
Age--4
DOB--AUG.22,1903

Name--LUCINDA MERRIFIELD
Age--2
DOB-DEC.29,1905

#11)Give names of your father and mother, and your mothers maiden name before
marriage.
Father- english name-HAYWARD ROWE #19011--(Added note not on app.-- born
1859, Talala, OK )
Indian name-NONE
Mother- english name-LUCINDA ROWE
Indian name-NONE
Maiden name-LUCINDA RODGERS

#12)Where were they born?
Father- NEAR TAHLEQUAH,INDIAN TERRITORY
Mother- IN FORT GIBSON, INDIAN TERRITORY

Page #3

#13)Where did they reside in 1851, if living at this time?
Father-NOT LIVING
Mother- NOT LIVING

#14)Date of death of your father and mother:
Father---IS ALIVE
Mother---IS ALIVE

#15)Were they ever enrolled for money, annuities, land, or other benifits? If
so, state when and were.---BOTH ARE ALLOTTEES IN CHEROKEE NATION, INDIAN
TERRITORY

#16)Name all your brothers and sisters, giving ages, and residence if
possible.

Name--CHARLES ROWE
Born--1883 IN TALALA, I.T.
Died--

Name--PERRY ROWE
Born--1888 IN TALALA, I.T.
Died--

Name--LEWIS ROWE
Born--1891 IN TALALA,I.T.
Died--

Name--ALBERT ROWE
Born--1893 IN TALALA,I.T.
Died--

Name--RACHEL ROWE
Born--FEB 22, 1900 IN TALALA,I.T.
Died--

Name--AGGIE ROWE
Born--FEB. 21,1902 IN TALALA,I.T.
Died--
THESE ARE ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT WERE ENROLLED. I HAD SEVERAL THAT
DIED IN INFANCY AND WERE NEVER ENROLLED.

#17)State English name and Indian names of your grandparents on both
father's side, and mother's side, if possible.
fathers side---DANIEL ROWE
JUNA ROWE-nee BROWN---SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF RACHEL BROWN


mothers side---JACKSON KIMP
GRACIE RODGERS OR MUSGROVE

#18)Where were they born?---

#19)Where did they reside in 1851, if living at that time?--GRANDFATHER AND
MOTHER ROWE, NEAR TAHLEQUAH, INDIAN TERRITORY

#20)Give names of all their children, and residence, if possible:
English Name:----HAYWARD ROWE-MY FATHER
Indian Name:---
Residence:---- TALALA,I.T.

English Name--FRANK KEYS--1\2 BROTHER TO HAYWARD ROWE ON MY MOTHERS SIDE.
Indian Name:--
Residence:---REDLAND, I.T.

English Name:--
Indian Name:--
Residence:---

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#21)Have you ever been enrolled for money, annuities, land, or other
benifits? If so, state when and were,and with what tribe of Indians.
ANSWER;---DREW STRIP AND BREAD MONEY. AM AN ALLOTTEE IN CHEROKEE NATION, I.T.


#22)To assist in identification, claiment should give the full English and
Indian names, if possible, of their parents and grandparents back to
1835.-----MY GREAT GRAND MOTHER WAS RACHEL BROWN, AND WAS ON THE 1846 ROLL
AND LIVED NEAR TAHLEQUAH, I.T.

Remarks- Section)
Under this head the applicant may give any additional facts which will assist
in providing his claim.----ANSWER: - RACHEL BROWN'S CHILDREN WERE GEORGE H.,
SILAS, PERRY AND LIZZIE AND JUNA BROWN, WHO WAS MY GRANDMOTHER.

Legal- Section )
I solemnly swear that the forgoing statements made by me are true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.

Signature- ELLA MARYFIELD

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15TH day,of JUNE, 1907.

Notary Public- signature;JOHN E. PEMBLETON
Comm exp.:--DEC. 21, 1908

Affidavit)--

(The following affidavit must be sworn to by two or more witnesses, who are
well acquainted with the applicant.)

Personally appeared before me THOS H. BUFORD and G. MURPHY, who being duly
sworn, on oath depose and say they are well acquainted with ELLA MAYFIELD who
makes the foregoing application and statements, and have known HER for 15
years and 5 years, respectively, and know HER to be the identical person SHE
represents HERSELF to be, and that the statements made by HER are true, to
the best of their knowledge and belief, and they have no interest whatever in
HER claim.

Witnesses to mark-


Signatures of witnesses-THOS H. BUFORD
G. MURPHY


Subscribed and sworn to me, before me this 15TH day of JUNE, 1907.

Notary signature-.JOHN E. PEMBERTON
Notary commission expires-.DEC. 21, 1908.

NOTE: Affidavits should be made, whenever practicable, before a notary
public,or clerk of the court, if sworn to before an Indian agent or
disbursing agent of the Indian service, it need not be before a notary,
etc.--------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------MY PERSONAL NOTE:Pages after
that include letters written to the BIA about their claim. Some have
additional papers, others do not.

.
Bright Star
Freedmen Project
JAN. 2003

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