Family Group Sheet for Thomas Bunker Payne / Mary T. "Mollie" Hardwick (F3055) m. 11 Jul 1891 : Strong McLemore Ancestry

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In the matter of the application for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation, Thomas B. Payne was sworn before the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes in Chickasha, I.T. on October 15, 1902 and testified as follows:

Q What is your name? A Thomas B. Payne Q How old are you? A I was born in sixty-four the 24th day of November. Q What is your post office address? A Arthur Q How do you spell that A A-r-t-h-u-r I think, Q That is in the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes, sir. Q How long have you resided in the Chickasaw Nation? A I have been here about sixteen or seventeen years. Q Lived here continuously for the past seventeen years? A Yes, sir. Q White man? A Yes, sir. Q Applicant to this Commission for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes, sir. Q What is the name of your Chickasaw wife? A Mollie Hardrick Q She is a citizen by blood of the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes, sir. Q Always recognized and enrolled as such? A Yes, sir. Q When was you married to her? A I disremember just when it was; the Comission has a certified copy of my license; it was in eighty-nine or ninety I think. Q Were you married with her in accordance with the Chickasaw license? A Yes, sir; I paid fifty dollars for the license. Q Was you ever married before you married that woman? A No, sir. Q Was she ever married before? A No, sir. Q Was you married to her in the Chickasaw Nation? A Yes; near Ardmore. Q Your Chickasaw wife now dead? A Yes, sir. Q When did she die? A It was the 20th day of this last June I think ten years ago. Q You lived together until that time? A Yes, sir; until she died. A She has been dead about nine years now? A Yes, sir. Q Have you remarried since her death? A Yes, sir; I have. Q When? A It was about this time four years ago when I enrolled and married some time in February or March. Q Whom did you marry? A A girl by the name of James. Q She is a white woman? A Yes, sir. Q Never recognized in any manner as a citizen of the Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations? A No, sir. Q Where were you married to her? A In the Indian Territory. Q Married under a United States license? A Yes, sir. Q Living with this woman still? A Yes, sir. Q How long did you say you have been living with her? A Since February or March, I think in February after the Commission was through some time in this month four years ago. Q You were married then the February after you made your application to the Commission? A Yes, sir. Q That would be in Ninety-nine? A Yes, I think so. Q You have lived with this woman about three years? A Yes, sir. Q Have you any children by her? A Yes, sir.

G. Rosenwinkel being duly sworn on his oath states that as stenographer to the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes her reported in full all the proceedings had in the above entitled cause on October 15, 1902, and that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct transcript of his stenographic notes in said cause on said date.

The commission followed the ruling of the Department of the Interior in the case of Thornton D. Pearce (I.T.D. 4060-1904) relative to the question of forfeiture, and Thomas B. Payne was enrolled as a citizen by intermarriage of the Chickasaw Nation on September 8, 1904.

He received a land allotment in Tishomingo, Indian Territory on December 20, 1904. His P.O. Box at the time was Marlow, Indian Territory. The land was in Sections 29 and 30, Town IN, Range 5W. He received a total of 190 acres with a value of $1,000. (Certificates 10150 and 13786).

In his sworn testimony, above, Tom states that he married Mollie in 1889 or 1890. This is supported by the fact that they can be found as husband and wife on the 1890 Chickasaw Census. However, the transcribed "Copy" of his actual marriage license, which was part of his Dawes enrollment packet, showed that they married on 11 July 1891 in Pickens county. There may have been an error on the transcription, or it could be that they were married in 1889, and remarried under a Chickasaw license in 1891.

Family: Thomas Bunker Payne / Mary T. "Mollie" Hardwick (F3055)