--WebTV-Mail-6867-3992 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Did your Jack,John and Rhoda Sharp ever reside in Tn?I have a Jack Sharp,John Sharp and a Rhoda Sharp all in the Sevier County and surrounding areas that claimed to have indian ancestry and they looked it too. --WebTV-Mail-6867-3992 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-2216.public.lawson.webtv.net (209.240.213.146) by storefull-2251.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.41]) by smtpin-2216.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 6CC26FE06 for <aburba@webtv.net>; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 15:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) id g67M3Cag029711; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:03:12 -0600 Resent-Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:03:12 -0600 X-Original-Sender: fdalley@southwind.net Sun Jul 7 16:03:09 2002 Message-ID: <001701c22601$991e0760$3110ecd8@pavilion> From: "dean and faye alley" <fdalley@southwind.net> Old-To: <SHARP-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:59:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Subject: [SHARP-L] Fw: Dawes for our Sharps Resent-Message-ID: <Mj3cm.A.pOH.fqLK9@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: SHARP-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: SHARP-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: SHARP-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <SHARP-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4380 X-Loop: SHARP-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: SHARP-L-request@rootsweb.com Subject: Dawes for our Sharps > Application for enrollment: #4089 > To the Honorable Henry L. Dawes, Frank C. Armstrong, Archibald S. McKennon, Thos. B. Cabaniss and Aldxander B. Montgomery, United States Commissioners authorzed by an act of Congress of June 4, 1896, > to hear and determine Claims for Citizenship in the Cherokee Nation: > Gentlemen: The undersigned your petitioner, Rhoda Sharp for and on behalf of herself and heirs, this day makes this their application to you for the purpose of being placed on the revised roll of Cherokee Indians and of those entitled to share in the distribution of funds and allotments of land in Cherokee Nation, by virtue of their > Cherokee blood and I herewith submit the Exhibet D T Exhibits A & B in Claim of Silas Sharp in support of said claim, a respectfully await the time when my application shall be heard and tried. > Respectfully Submitted, Thomas Avants et al. Sharp > > Enrollment of family, with relationship attached, as follows: > Name: Rhoda Sharp > Age: 25 > Relationship: Rhoda Sharp is a daughter of Jack Sharp and a granddaughter of John Sharp and a great granddaughter of Isaac Sharp of South Carolina who was a Cherokee Indian by blood. > > In witness of which I hereunto set my hand on this 31 day Aug 1896. > Signature: Rhoda Sharp > > To the Honorable Henry L. Dawes and others Composing the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes: Your Petitioner Rhoda Sharp would state and show from the proof submitted to the Commission that she is a > Cherokee by decent and by blood having been born in Conway County, State of Ark on 7th day of Aug 1861. My fathers name was Jack Sharp. My mothers name was Sarah Sharp. That I now reside in Chickasaw Ind > Ter and have resided there for five years. And she avers these facts can be established by proof to the satisfaction of the Commission under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe. And she further avers that these facts being proved she is entitled to be adjudged under the laws of such Nation and the laws of the Congress of the United States and the treaties of such Nation with the United States, a citizen of such Nation, with all the rights, privileges and protection of Citizenship in such Nation. Wherefore she herewith > respectfully submit to the consideration of the Honorable Commission such proof and on the hearing she be adjudged entitled to such citizenship and her name be placed upon the proper roll as a citizen > of such Nation. > Signature Thomas Avants et al. for Rhoda Sharp > State of Indian Territory > County of Norther Division > Now on this 31 day of Aug 1896 personally appeared before me W J Watts a Notary Public for said county and state Thomas Avants who being duly sworn upon his oath states that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are correct and true. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31 day of Aug 1896. > W J Watts Notary Public > > Affidavit. Exhibit D > Indian Territory, Northern Division, Be it Remembered, That on the 31st day of August 1896 Personally appeared before me, Thomas Avants who is a reliable and creditable citizen of the County of Creek > Nation, State of Indian Territory and after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and says: That he is a resident of theCounty of Creek Nation State of Ind. Ter. that his age is 66 years, occupation that of farmer that postoffice is Clarksville I.T., that he is personally and weel acquainted with Rhoda Sharp who is a > daughter of Jack Sharp of and Granddaughter of John Sharp of and Great Granddaughter of Isaac Sharp of South Carolina at or near Affiant makes this his sworn statement from his own personal knowledge and acqaintance with the family. Thomas Avants. > Subscribed and sworn to before me a Notary Public this 31st day of > August 1896 > W J Watts, NP > > It says in Rhoda Sharps application #4089-Sept. 1896. "Before the Honorables, Henry L. Dawes, Frank C. Armstrong, A.S. McKennon, T.B. Cabaniss, and A.B. Montgomery, Commissioners. > In the matter of application of Rhoda Sharp, et al. Nation's No. , Commission's no. for citizenship in the Cheroke Nation. Your respondent, S. H. Mayes, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, comes now and demurs the said application, and for the groounds therof says: 1st. That this Commission has not jurisdiction over the parties ofr subject matter of this controversy, and no legal right, therefore, to hear and determine the same. > 2nd. That the application does not state facts sufficient, if true,to show that the applicants are entitled to citizenship. Respondent not waiving his aforesaid demurrer, but insisting upon the same for answer to said application, says that Isaac Sharp through who the petitioners claim to derive their right to citizenship in the > Cherokee Nation, is not now, and has not been a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, since the removal of said Nation, west to the Indian Territory as at present located and defined; that his name does not appear on any of the authenticated rolls of said Nation; that neither he nor any of his ancestos no reside, or ever have resied in the > Cherokee Nation and Indian Territory, as citizens thereof, Having fully answered, your respondent asks to be hence dismissed. > S. H. Mayes, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation. By Hutchings, Hastings, & Boudinot. Attorneys. > John L. Adair, Executive Secretary, Cherokee Nation, having been first duly sworn, states that the matters contained in the foregoing answer are ture to the best of his knowledge and belief. > Signature of John. L. Adair > Subscribed and sworn to before me this, the 16th day of Sept., 1896. > D. J. Ball, Notary Public. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > #4090 > Isaac Avants, vs. Cherokee Nation > The papers in the Silas Sharp vs. Cherokee Nation are ordered sent up, to be used as evidence in the above styled case, 4088 4090 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The brief for Silas Sharp says that Silas Sharp is a son of Jack Sharp, and a grandson of John Sharp and a greatgrandson of Isaac Sharp of South Carolina who was Cherokee Indian by blood. > > The brief for William Franklin Sharp, his children Effie, Ettie...William Franklin Sharp is a son of W. W. Sharp and a grandson of Isaac Sharp of Mississippi, and a greatgrandson of Isaac Sharp of South Carolina who was Cherokee Indian by blood. > > The brief for William J. Ross, his children James Thomas, Benjamin F. And Cassie Jane...William J. Ross is a son of Abagail Ross (Sharp) and a grandson of Isaac Sharp of Mississippi, and a great grandson of > Isaac Sharp of South Carolina who was a Cherokee Indian by blood. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ==== --WebTV-Mail-6867-3992--