Hi: I know some of you have posted messages asking about some Estes lines having Indian blood. When I came across this record I thought I would pass it on. Leo "Cherokee by Blood; Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U. S. Court of Claims 1906-1910" Vol. 3, compiled by Jerry Wright Jordan, Heritage Books, Inc. 7142. JOHN M. ESTES RFD 3, Lawton, Okla. Rejected. ... "My name is John M. Estes, and I am 45 years old. I live at Lawton, Okla. I claim my Indian blood through my father, Cicero Estes. He now lives at Bebee, Okla. I am the only one of my family who has applied to participate in this fund. My father did not apply because he had spent so much money trying to get his land in the Indian Territory. My father was born at Guinnette County, Ga. My father came west in 1859. My father was born in 1833. He settled in Tex. My father was about 1/16 Cherokee Indian. My father got his Indian blood through his father, Joel Estes. Joel lived in Ga., but was born in N. C. or in S. C. He came west about the same time we all did. I am mistaken it was the father of Joel Estes, my great grandfather, who was born in N. or S. C. His name was Joshua Estes, and he was 1/4 Cherokee. I do not know when or where Joshua Estes died. His mother my great great grandmother, Elizabeth Hulsey, who was 1/2 blood Cherokee, and I can remember her, she lived to be 107 years old. She died back in Ga. in Forsythe County. I do not know whether she mixed up with the Indians there, for when I was a boy there the Indians had all been moved from that locality." SIGNED: Jno. M. Estes, Lawton, Okla., Oct. 5, 1908.