Miller Application # 17251

Zoe May Cannon nee Hampton

Chectoah, Oklahoma

Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

I hereby make application for such share as me be due me of the fund appropriated by the Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906, in accordance with the decrees of the Court of Claims of May 18, 1905, and May 28, 1906, in favor of the Eastern Cherokees. The evidence of identity is herewith subjoined.

1. State Full Name:

English Name - Zoe May Cannon

Indian Name - Not known

2. Residence - Checotah

3.. Town and Post Office- Checotah

4.. County: District 10

5.. State: Indian Territory

6.. Date and Place of Birth Caddo, 1882

7.. By what right do you claim to share? If you claim through more than one relative living in 1851, set forth each claim separately:

My grandmother

8.. Are you married? Yes

9. Name and age of wife or husband - William L. Cannon, age 32

10.. Give names of your father and mother, and your mother's name before marriage.

Father English name - William B. Hampton

Indian name - not known

Mother English name - Nannie Hampton

Indian name - not known

Maiden name - Nannie Beck

11.. Where were they born? Father- Tennessee Mother- Georgia

12.. Where did they reside in 1851, if living at that time? Father- Unknown; Mother- Not living

13.. Date of death of your father and mother? Father- Living; Mother- about 1888

Either I neglected to get the whole application, or there were no other sheets. Continue on to the supplemental.

n.. Were they ever enrolled for annuities, land, or other benefits? If so, state when and where-

o.. Name all your brothers and sisters, giving ages, and if not living, give date of death-

p.. State English and Indian name of your grandparents on both father's and mother's side, if possible-

Father's Side

Mother's Side

q.. Where were they born?

r.. Where did they reside in 1851, if living at that time?

s.. Give names of all their children, and residence, if living; if not living, give dates of deaths

1.. English name- ; Indian name- ; Residence-

2.. English name- ; Indian name- ; Residence-

3.. English name- ; Indian name- ; Residence-

3.. Have you ever been enrolled for annuities, land, or other benefits? If so, state when and where-

Witness

Signed-

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Supplemental Application for Minor Children

Special Commissioner of the Court of Claims,

601 Ouray Building, Washington, D. C.

Sirs,

I hereby make application for such share as may be due my minor children of the fund appropriated by the Act of Congress June 30, 1906, in accordance with the decree of the Court of Claims of May 18, 1905, and May 28, 1906, if favor of the Eastern Cherokee, and I ask that this be made part of my original application

No. 17251

1.. State you full name: Zoe May Cannon

2.. Residence and post office: Checotah

3.. County: Creek Nation

4.. State: Indian Territory

5.. Date and place of birth: May 1, 1882 Caddo, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

6.. Are you married? Yes

7.. Name and age of wife or husband: William L. Cannon, age 32 years

8.. To what tribe of Indians, if any, does he or she belong? None

9.. Names of all your children who were living on May 28, 1906:

1. Leonard L. Cannon 6 yrs. b. April 18, 1901

2. James D. Cannon Deceased b. November 7, 1904 d. January 9, 1907

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10.. Where they ever enrolled for money, annuities, land, or other benefits? If so state when and were and with what tribe of Indians.

REMARKS

(Under this head the applicant may give any additional facts which will assist in proving his claim.)

James D. Cannon died January 9, 1907

I solemnly swear that the foregoing statements made by me are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

(Signature) Zoe May Cannon

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st day of June 1907.

J. B. Morrow - notary public

My commission expires June 30, 1910

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Letter included in Miller Application

Tahlequah Oklahoma March 13, 1909

To May Cannon, Checota, Oklahoma.

Your grandmother's name was Martha Cloud - but she married Buck in the state of Georgia, before she came to Indian Territory. She lived in Goingsnake District or Delaware District in 1851. Your grandmother and my mother were half-sisters. My mother, Alcy Townsend was an Old Settler. Your grandmother was an emigrant Cherokee. I don't know whether your mother was old enough to draw emigrant money in 1851 or not. But your Aunt Eliza Ward was. Your grandfather was a white man. But your grandmother was nearly a full blood Cherokee. They all came to the Indian Territory as Emigrants Cherokees. My mother Alcy Townsend came as Old Settlers. I don't know what your mother's name was, but Eliza Beck and I are the same age.

Respectfully, Susan E. Parris

(transcriber note; Susan E. Parris nee Townsend, has miller app. # 941)

(Susan E. Parris Dawes # 29495, Census Card # 5712 born 1850)

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Misc. Test. Miller Application # 17251-17250

Zoe May Cannon being first duly sworn, deposes and says;

"I am 26 years of age. I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I get my Indian Blood from my mother. I got the strip payment. I also got land through the Dawes Commission, No. 22033. I have never received benefits from any other tribe of Indians than the Cherokees. Nancy Beck was the maiden name of my mother . She married Hampton. I do not know where she was born. She would be somewhere in the forties if she were living at this time. My mother got her Indian blood through her mother, Martha Beck. I think she was on the '51 roll by that name. My mother had a sister name Eliza Beck. She married a Ward. My grandmother's name was Green or Cloud at one time. My grandmother lived in Flint District or Goingsnake District in 1851. I don't know whether my grandmother had any brothers of not. She had a half sister, Ailsey Townsend. She had a daughter named Susie. I did not draw any Old Settler money, nor did any of my ancestors that I know of. I drew the grass money. Sarah Beck was a sister of my mother and I am sure that she is enrolled on the 1851 roll. My grandmother had an Indian name but I don't know what it was. It means 'green' in English. My mother had two other sisters named Betty and Cherokee. I don't know whether my grandmother was married before she came to this country or not. Sarah Beck was born in Georgia. She came out here with my grandmother and she died in this country.

(Witness knows nothing about her ancestry)

Signed: Zoe May Cannon

Subscribed and sworn to before me at Muskogee, Okla., this 22nd day of March 1909.

Signed: A. S. Marine

Asst. to Special Commissioner of the Court of Claims

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Letter included in Miller Application

Caddo, Oklahoma

April 5, 1909

My Dear Niece,

I received you letter in regard to the Eastern Cherokees. Our grandparents was Eastern Cherokees. They did not draw any Old Settlers money. My mother in 1851 was Martha Beck, lived in Goingsnake District in Cherokee Nation. Her Indian name was 'Chow-ar-u-ka'. Her children's names.. Sarah Ann Beck, Eliza and Samantha Cherokee , Nancy and Margaret Elizabeth. My husbands name is William Giles Ward. Your mother's first husband was John Smith. Her second, William Bradford Hampton. Aaron Beck is my cousin, he is blind. This leaves all well so I'm in a hurry will close.

your Aunt Eliza Ward.

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Face Sheet information on Miller app. # 17251 Admitted

Name: Zoe M. Cannon and 2 children residence: Checotah, Okla.

Reason: Grandmother of applicatant, 'Chah-wah-yoo-gah Beck', enrolled in 1851, in Goingsnake District, No. 67

Sister of 17250 = Fannie E. Heim nee Hampton B. 1885

Dawes # 21637, Census Card # 9548

Zoe May Cannon nee Hampton

Dawes # 22033, Census Card # 9804

1/8 Cherokee by blood

Miller # 6653, app. # 17251

Transcribed by Catherine Widener, 2002