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Eastern Cherokee Claims of 1906-1909 Original research and transcript by Judith Gail Crabtree Dunn |
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Testimony of Peter Cooper in care of George A. Cooper #41086 Peter Cooper has also filed Application #19589, and should have been with his sons.
Peter Cooper after being duly sworn desposes and says:
My name is Peter Cooper. My PO is LONG ISLAND, ALA, JACKSON CO., I was born in 1843 in DADE CO., GA. I claim Cherokee Indian blood through my and1 father and his father. Father died in 1845-6. I (he?)2 was about or between 20 and 30 years old when he died: He was born in Ky.
Don't know where grandfather was born but he came to this county from Ky. They, Father and Grandfather, were recognized as white folks when they lived: They lived with white people; never heard of them living with the Indian Tribe except that they in this state when the Indians left.
They did not leave when the Indians left: I don't know why the Indians left: I never heard of my father or my grandfather getting money or land from the government on account of their Indian Blood. I never heard of their being enrolled with the Cherokee: I don't know why I was not enrolled in 1851: I was living with my grandmother at that time: My father and grandfather are both dead: I never heard of my grandmother living with the Cherokee Tribe: I have heard Grandmother say that we had THE BLOOD in us and have heard all people say so: Indians talked to me about it: They said I looked like I had the Blood in me. In 1882, I was living in Jackson Co., Al: I was not enrolled at that time because I did not know anything about it: There was no agent through here. I never heard of a treaty with the Cherokee in 1835--I heard about the Indians being sent away from here: I suppose my grandfather did not go because he did not want to. Jim, Wert (?Newt),3 Isaac. John, Richard, Nancy J. Morgan, Mary Rhodes, Sarah Rigley,4 and Sarabella5 Colvin are my sons and daughters.
PETER X COOPER
Subscribed and sworn to before me at Scottsboro Ala., this 1st day of July AD 1908.
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