Transcription of the Cherokee Dawes Roll
enrollment transcript of W. E. Dupree and family. Section 1
Depart of the Interior.
Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.
Vinita, IT. September 24, 1900
IN THE MATTER OF THE
APPLICATION OF WILLIAM E. DEUPREE FOR THE ENROLLMENT OF HIMSELF AND
CHILDREN AS CHEROKEE CITZENS.
The said William E. Dupree, being
sworn and examined by Commissioner C. R. Brekinridge, testified as
follows:
Q. Give your full name. A. William E.
Deupree.
Q. How old are you? A. Forty-three
Q. What is your post office. A.
Vinita.
Q. In what district do you Live? A.
Cooweescoowee.
Q. Who is it you want to have putt on
the roll? A. Myself and children.
Q. How many children? A. Seven.
Q. Do you apply for yourself as a
Cherokee by blood? A. Yes sir.
Q. What proportion of Cherokee blood
do you claim. A. One-eight
Q. How long have you lived in the
Cherokee Nation? A. Ten Years.
Q. Citizenship? A. Yes, sir.
THE COMMISSIONER: The applicant
presents a duly authenticated copy of the act of the Cherokee Commission
on Citizenship, showing that on September 10th 1889, certain persons
were admitted to citizenship by said commission, and among them appers
the name of William Deupree. Is that your name? A. Yes Sir.
Q. Age then given as thirty years.
That was your age at the time application was made, was it, in 1887? A.
Yes, sir.
THE COMMISSIONER: This is recognized
as official evidence of the admission of the applicant.
Q. Give the name of your father: A.
Dr. W. J. Deupree.
Q. Cherokee or white man? A. White
man.
Q. Is he dead or alive: A. He is
dead.
Q. How long has he been dead? A. He
died in 1892.
Q. Give the name of your mother,
please. A. Charlotte B. Deupree.
Q. Cherokee or white woman? A. She is
a Cherokee.
Q. Is she dead or alive? A. She is
living.
Q. Have you lived in the Cherokee
nation ever since you came here ten years ago? A. Yes, sir.
Q. You have made it steadily your
home. A. Yes, sir.
Q. Give the names of your children,
please. A. Elmer.
Q. How old is that child? A.
Seventeen.
Q. The next child? A. Herbert.
Q. How old is he? A. Thirteen
Q. The next child? A. Emma
Q. How old is she? A. she will be
twelve in December.
Q. The next child? A. Wright
Q. How old is he? A. He is ten
Q. The next child? A. Bessie
Q How old is she? A. She is eight.
Q. The next child? A. Fred.
Q. How old is he? A. Five years old.
Q. The next child? A. Annie
Q How old is she? She is one year
old.
Q. Now, some of these children were
admitted at the same time as you were, were they not?
A. I don’t know, sir.
Q. _____, they were living at that
time? A. Yes, sir.
Q. What is your wife’s name? A. Fanny
L. Deupree.
Q. What is your wife’s age?
Thirty-nine now.
1896 roll, page 146, No. 1387, Wm. E.
Dupree, Cooweescoowee District. Native Cherokee.
1896 Roll, page 301 No. 293, Fannie
Dupree, Cooweescoowee Distrct
1896 Roll, page 145, No. 1388, Elmer
Dupree, Cooweescoowee District.
1896 Roll page 145, No 1389 Herbert
Dupree, Cooweescoowee District.
Q. What is the exact date of your
coming to the Cherokee Nation.
A. It is the 16th of December, 1890.
1896 Roll , page 145, No. 1390 Emma
Dupree, Cooweescoowee District.
1890 Roll, page 145, No. 1391, Wright
Dupree, Cooweescoowee District.
Q. Give the exact date of the birth
of all these children:
A. Elmer, born 24th of October, 1883;
Herbert was born 2nd of April 1887; Emma was born 13 of December, 1888,
Wright was born the 8th of October 1890, Bessie was born in 1892, the
25th of May.
1896 Roll page 145, No. 1392 Bessie
Dupree, Cooweescoowee District.
1896 Roll, page 145, No. 1393 Fred
Dupree, Cooweescoowee District.
Q. Now, your application for
admission was made October October 5th, 1887 Vinita IT? A. Yes, sir.
Q. which ones of these children were
born since you applied in October, 1887? Was Herbert born then? A. He is
thirteen years old; hew was born April 2nd 1885, I believe, and Emma was
born in 1887. No, let’s see, she was born 1888.
Q. Then Emma is included among those
children since you were admitted? A. Yes, Sir.
Q. You only moved here ten years
ago.? A. Yes, Sir.
THE COMMISSIONER: The applicant applies for the enrollment of himself,
his wife and seven children. Hi is shown to have been admitted as a
Cherokee citizen in 1889. He has lived in the Cherokee Nation for ten
years. He is identified on the roll of 1886 and he will be listed now as
a Cherokee by blood. His wife is identified with him on the roll of
1896, but she is not included with him in the terms in the act of
admission, and the application for her enrollment will be admitted at
this time upon _______ which card for further consideration.
It appears that two of the children,
Elmer and Herbert, the older children were born before the applicant
applied for admission as a Cherokee citizenship. The were identified
with him on the roll of 1896. Their application will be listed at
present upon a white card for further consideration. _____-______
_________
The application for the enrollment of the child Emma and the child
Wright who is identified on the roll of 1896 ___-_____ _____ _____
_______ ________ _____. With these cases, in view of the difference of
the date between the application and the admission and the time when the
applicant moved into the Cherokee Nation.
As for the three younger children,
Bessie, Fred and Annie, Bessie and Fred are identified on the roll of
1896 with their father and mother, and they will be listed for
enrollment now as Cherokees by blood, and the same course will be
pursued in regard to Annie when the commission is supplied with a proper
certification of her birth.
The applicant is enjoined to supply the Commission with a copy of his
document of admission.
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The undersigned, being
sworn, states that a stenographer to the Commission to the Five
Civilived Tribes be correctly recorded the testimony and other
proceedings in this application for enrollment and that the foregoing is
a correct and complete transcript of his stenographic notes thereof.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of October A. D. 1900
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