Thanks, Faye, for providing status of "Weir Papers." I wonder if they even still exist?? Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: "faynshep" <faynshep@telapex.com> To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] MS Choctaw > No, Only the same rumors as everyone else. I spoke to the Liberian at the > Library at Philadelphia and she was making arrangements to get a grant to > receive the records from his daughter restore and catalog them and dedicate > them to lawyer Weir but nothing doing. The woman still wouldn't agree to > anything. There are rumors that range to (1) the records were kept in boxes > in the basement and were flooded and ruined, (2) they are afraid of lay > suits because of their contents. Our Lea family took a pedigree chart that > was said to be two feet long. Of course, no copy was kept. It was said > that a Senator Magee had it at one time. His son had lived in Meadville but > he had no idea what I was talking about. He contacted his sister that lived > in FL and she didn't know where her father's papers were. No progress has > ever been made that has shown any NA blood. > Fay > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jackie Matte <matteja@bellsouth.net> > To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 7:50 AM > Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] MS Choctaw > > > > Fay, have you heard anything new about what happened to Tom Weir's > records? > > Best regards always, Jackie > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "faynshep" <faynshep@telapex.com> > > To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 12:42 PM > > Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] MS Choctaw > > > > > > > He didn't just take $25.00 from everyone. My husband's aunt would get > on > > a > > > train in Brookhaven, MS and go up and take him $100.00 about once a > month. > > > This was in the early 1950's. > > > Fay > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <JOHNSONALBERTD@aol.com> > > > To: <CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:47 PM > > > Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] MS Choctaw > > > > > > > > > > please check your rolls for the name: Gilmer or Dennis or Dennes > > > > the attorneys name was Tom Weir, he took $25.00 form everyone saying > he > > > would > > > > get them Indian money in the name of Dancing Rabbit Creak Tribe, out > of > > > > Philadelphia Mississippi. > > > > thanks aj > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > > > > DON'T FORGET OUR ARCHIVES. Got a question? Looking for ancestor's > name? > > > Check our archives at: > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > > > Home Page: > > > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/ > > > > > > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/chat.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > > DON'T FORGET OUR ARCHIVES. Got a question? Looking for ancestor's name? > Check our archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST > > > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to CHAHTA-L list discussions on history, culture, language. Send msg. to CHAHTA-L-request@rootsweb.com > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "subscribe" without the quotes, nothing in the subject line, turn off signatures. > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off signatures....... > >