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IN RE C ITIZENSHIP CLAIMAffidavit of M. and and Bailey Askew.OF WILLIAM QUINT ASICE -: - ETAL.Before the Hon. Davies Commission sittin at Vinita, ind. Ter.to determine the rights of citizenship of any applicant in any of thefrive tribes of nation/Names M. and Bailey Askcw, 42 years of age, Bailey Askew is40 years of age, and post office address is Ran, Indian r‘erritory,know the parties that are applying for citizens ip and know they torelatives of ours. Our relationship is as follows: Our grand ±ricarrxfather, named Asron Askew, %Is s a half Choctaw Indian by blood. Hemarried and had. three boys by his wife, named Tom, /Tose and Murrill.These byys are ful,1 brothers. Our father whose name was MurrillAskew, was one of the boys. Tom Askew had four vhildren. They wereQuint, Wash, Newt and Marry. Quint has betm married twice and hassevr.3ral children. Our father came to the Indian T rritory a number ofyears before any of the rest of our fmn.ily did.In connection with my brothers and sisterx we prosecuted anapplication for citizenship to a final hearing, and was admitted bythe authorities of the Choctaw Nation as a citizen and enrolled upontheir roll book as such. Ile and. our brother s and sisters are citizensof the Choctaw Nation. We are positive that William Quint Askewwho is our first cousin, is like ourselves a one eighth Choctaw IndianbT blood. We do not know much about his children or his children'schildren, though we understand that there are several f them.(Signed) M. Askew B. B. Ask-eaWitness C. A. Scaife.Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 14th day of Aug/1896.(Signed) Jesse Turner,Notary Public.