McClain County, Oklahoma / Chickasaw Nation

Hill Phillips Application


Department of the Interior
Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes
Pauls Valley, I. T. October 21,1902

In the matter of the application for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation of Hill Phillips.

Hill Phillips being first duly sworn testified:

Examination by the Commission

Q. What is your name? A. Hill Phillips.

Q. How old are you Mr. Phillips.

Q. What is your post office address. A. Purcell

Q. How long have you lived in the Chickasaw Nation? A. Twenty eight years.

Q. Have you lived here continuously for the past twenty eight years? A. Yes, sir.

Q. Are you a white man? A. Yes, sir

Q. And an applicant for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation? A. Yes, sir.

Q. What is the name of your Chickasaw wife through whom you claim your rights to enrollment as an intermarried citizen? A. Sallie Thompson.

Q. She is a recognized citizen by blood of the Chickasaw Nation? A. Yes, sir.

Q. Her rights Have never been questioned? A. No, sir.

Q. When were you married to her? A. In 84.

Q. Where? A. Twenty miles east of here on the river.

Q. Where was she living at the time? A. At Johnson.

Q. Chickasaw Nation? A. Yes, sir.

Q. How long had she lived in the Chickasaw Nation? A. She was born and raised here.

Q. Did you ever marry her more than once? A. No, sir.

Q. Did you marry her under a Chickasaw License? A. I did.

Q. What did you pay for that license? A. Fifty dollars.

Q. Whom did you get it from? A. From Governor Byrd, that is he got it for me.

Q. Whom did you get it from? A. I don't remember the Judges name.

Q. Your rights as an intermarried citizen of the Chickasaw Nation have never been questioned by the tribal authorities have they? A No, sir.

Q. Were you ever married before you married this woman? A No, sir.

Q. Was she ever married before? A. Yes, sir.

Q. How many times? A. Once.

Q. Was her first husband living when she married you? A. No, sir

Q. Have you and this woman been living together in the Chickasaw Nation continuously since your marriage in 84? A. Yes, sir.

Q. There has been no separation or divorce? A. No, sir.

Q. You are both bonafide residents of the Chickasaw Nation? A. Yes, sir.

G. Rosenwinkle, being duly sworn on his oath states that as stenographer to the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes he reported in full all the proceedings had in the above entitled cause on October 21, 1902, and that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct transcript of his stenographic notes in said cause on above date.

Signed G. Rosenwinkle

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of November 1902

Charles ? Notary Public.