This Tom Weir sounds like the Mississippi Choctaw Investment Co, that said they would help my ancestors "secure for them a share in the tribal property belonging to the Choctaw tribes" A cousin has the original signed receipts, signed by D.H. B. Gauld, claim agent representing Mississippi Choctaw Indians, in 1918. These receipts were torn from a book of these printed forms, size about 3x5 in., you can see the perforated edges. The heading on one form says " The Mississippi Choctaw Investment Co., Houston Texas, the bottom says "Witness our hands, in duplicate, at Canton Texas. Witnesses: D. H. B. Gauld, J. F. Carter. The other form is a receipt for $5.00, but has been handwritten over that, an amount I cannot read, perhaps $2.50, for "clerical expenses in re claim against the US Government for violation of Choctaw Indians Treaty of 1830. The undersigned agrees to have this case prosecuted before the US Congress, and other tribunals if necessary, as a descendant of the Mississippi Choctaws" Canton, TX, in Van Zandt Co, 1893 is as far back as I can document my family. A Texas Historical Commission Commemorative Maker in front of the Oakland Community Cemetery reads "Early settlers buried on this site include Joseph and Sabrina Reid, and members of their family. Sabrina is believed to have been of American Indian descent" My question is, how did these lawyers and "Investment Cos" locate these people in order to prey on them? Perhaps newspapers from this time period will shed some light. Still searching for my J. L. Chambless' Choctaw roots, who was 14 yrs old at the time of these papers in 1918. His mother's maiden name was Josephine/Jodie Skinner, b. 1886, grandmother's maiden name Mary Martha Stephens, b. 1849. Fran Bolton