hello, my name is judy grimes and I have been posting the obits on the sumpters on the sumpter -l roots web. You asked about Albert L. Sumter . Albert had four children, charles, c., pete, and lella. ALL of these people spelled their last name with out the "p", however, the mother of these four children spelled her maiden name as HESTER SUMPTER, with the "p" To answer your question about the Pawhuska Sumpter/Sumpter familys, they have no link to any native american tribes except through possible marriages in the 20th century. The Osage Indians that live in Pawhuska, have that city as their reservation-it is Osage County. In the days before the land was given to the Osage it was populated by other plains peoples. And Okla was a refuge for other tribes until the US government moved them out forceably. I am sure there was some intermarrying. However, we have no documents to say it was the sumpter clans. The Indain tribes have lists of headrights and who is entitled to get payments from the government on their shares of oil lands. A non indian who marries an indian does not receive headrights but the children do. Headrights can also be sold, I understand, I may be wrong on that. But, as far as I know our familys-do not have native american lineage in the Sumpter/Sumter line. My husband had an aunt, a grimes who married a native american, but the lineage was not sumpter. Also, the grandfather who worked for years on the Indian school in Pawhuska and got their lunch program going-was a gullett married to a sumpter woman. The people of native american ancestry that live in that area are mostly of the Osage tribe and have income from the oil lands. The non Indian people mostly in the early part of the 1900's worked FOR the Indians. It is lovely spot of the nation and the peoples have mingled and lived together all prospering.