Michael MCR 3037 is John G. Foster, age 56, PO Grandcane, Louisiana, he has lived there 40 years. He was born in MS. His father Richard Duke Foster, mother Jane. His wife is 29 her name is Jemima J. Foster. Her father is James Creech, and her mother is Missouri Franklin. She was married twice and she is living. He states his wife's parents were both White people and made no claim to Indian blood. He (John) claims through his father, he was born in 1816, he was sixty when he died. His father's mother's name was Elizabeth, she was said to be 1/2 blood. . "I was very young when he went back to visit his grandmother. She died in 1872 or 73, it was since the war between the states. His grandmother's maiden name was Elizabeth Duke. I have heard her father was Richard Duke and her mother was Elizabeth Harris. Richard Duke, he was a White man if I understand it; I don't know, I say he was a White man as I understand it-- he was from England; three brothers came over here and one married an Indian girl, that's the way I got it from some of the relatives. He went back to visit in 1859 in Chickasaw County, Mississippi; grandfather wasn't living==grandmother was living in Chickasaw County, MS. His father had brothers and sisters. His oldest brother was named Ambrose F. and the next Moses F.; Washington F. and Jackson Foster. his sisters were Susanna and Sarah. Only one of them are living. Jackson F. Foster. His father died in Louisiana, He was married to Jemima J. in Louisian on the 3 or June 1901. "The applicant has brown eyes and straight brown hair and his nose and cheek bones are rather prominent; his complexion is dark, and from his appearance, he may have the proportion of Choctaw blood claimed by him. He does not speak the Choctaw language............,although it appears from his testimony that his father and grandmother lived in MS in 1830, he does not know whether they lived among the Indinas" "From the records of the Government it appears that William, James and Hugh Foster were beneficiaries under article 14 of the treaty. From the affidavit, of John Lewis it appears that he was acquainted with said Thomas Foster and with his three brothers, William, James, and Hugh Foster; that he was with the Foster brothers in the summer of 1831 at the Union Agency, Mississippi, and that all of siad brothers signified their intention to Col. Ward to remain in Mississippi and became citizens of that state." This a very large consolidated case. Sandra