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ATTIDAVI - OF WILLIAM QUINT AITATI.In re c itizenship claim ofWilliam W Quint Askew, et al,Before the Honorable Davies Commission sitting at Vinita,Indian Territory to determine the rights of citizenship of any applicantof the fri e tribes or nations.My name is William Quint Askew, I am 66 years of age, andmy post office a(idress is Lebanon, Indian Territory;/ I am one ofthe applicants for citizenship in the above entitled cau e.I was born and partly ra sed near Florence, Alabama andmy father was Tom Askew and my mother was before marriage namedBetty Blassinc,- ame, my father always claimed to be a one fourthChoctaw Indian by blood, whilst my mother, claimed to be a whitewoman. I have heard k my fate ,• often speak of his being an Indian,ai.d his intention of coming west and settling among them, but he neverdid so, and on about 12 month of 1852 year he died in Alabama. I remainedin Alabama until the year 1891, when I moved to the IndianTerritory. Ltr father had two brothers named Murrill and Mose whom Iknowvell, I have been to their houses often, and stayed with than.When a boy I went to see my fathers father, that is to say my grandfather who was named Asaron Askew. -2 '121.t/ grand father was a half Choc awIndian by blood, and I lived with him for a considerable length oftime. He looked like an Indian and had most of the ways of an Indian.He had long straight black hair and was of dark coraplection. He-I aimed himself to be a one half Choctaw Indian, and all the peoplein that community recognized him as such. Neither he nor his ancestorsaccepted any lands or other property in the way of allotment, by reservation,or otherwise, nor did he ever renounce his citizenship in theChoctaw Tribe, nor has any of his descendants done so so that I ]mow of.Neither I nor ,y father have.My uncle Murrill Askew moved away from Alabama in the IndianTerritory a number of years before I left Alabama. When I came out