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IN RE CITIa:NSHIP APPLICATION OFWILLIAM QUINT ASKYVT, ET AL.Affidavi of Dora McKinzie.Before the Hon. Dawes Corraission at Vinita, Indian Territory,to determine the rights of' citizenship of any applicant in any of thefive tribes of Nations.My name is Dora McKinzie, I am 29 year of age, and my postoffice address is Lebanon, Indian Territory. I know the partiesthat are applying for d tizenship, and know then to be relatives ofml e. Our relationship is as folloss: M3v grandfather was namedAaron Askew, and was one half Choctaw Indian by blood.He married and had three children by his wife named Tom, Mose and.Murrell. These boys were all full brothers. My father, whose namewas _urrell Askew, was one of those boys. Tom Askew had fourth ildrena They were Quint, Wash, Newt, and Marry.Q2cuint has been married and. ha several x children. Myfather me to th Indian Territory a ntunber at' years bef e any of therei of our family did. In connection with my brothers and sistersprosecuted the application for citizenship to a final hearirg , andwas admitted by the authorities of the Chictaw Nation as a citizenand enrolled upon their roll book as such xidaxxxxx, me and all mybrothers and sisters are citizens of the Choctaw Nation. I am positivethat William Quint Askew, who is my first cousin is, line myself aone eighth Choctaw Indian by blood. I do not know much about hischildren or his choldrens though I understand that there are severalof them.Attest.her(Signed) Dora X McKenziemarkC. A. Scaife.Subscribe d and sworn to before me this the 15th day ofAu ust, 1896.(Signed) Jesse L. TurneNot ry Public.