Cherokee Indian Application - Dawes Commission - Charlotte Adair

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Submitted by:  Kathy Pitts katherynpitts@myfamily.com
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Appli. 1349

     Charlottte Adair, being first duly sworn deposes 
and says through her interpreter, L. D. Walkingstick:

     My name is Charlotte Adair;  I was enrolled by
the Dawes Commission under the name of Charlotte Adair,
1856;  my father's name was Will Hummingbird;  my father 
Cherokee name was Wah-la-lee;  my mother's English name 
was Polly Hummingbird;  her Cherokee name was Wah-lee
Wah-la-lee;  my mother's maiden name was Polly 
Hughes;  my father was born in Going Snake District
and my mother came from the old nation in the East;  my
grandparents on my father's side were Old Settlers.  I claim
this emigrant money through my mother only;  both of my
parents were full blood Cherokees;  my grandparents on 
my father's side were living in the Ind. Terr. at the
time of the emigration;  my mother came to the Ind. Terr.
at the time of the emigration of the Cherokees;  my mother's
father's name was Holly Hughes;  my mother's mother's name
was Tah-ya-nih; my grandparents on my mother's side 
were born in the old nation in the East and came to the
Ind. Terr. at the time of the emigration;  both I and
the ancestors through whom I claim have always been with
the Cherokees;  my mother and her parents were enrolled 
in 1851 in either Going Snake or Flint District;  I had
no brother and sisters old enough to be enrolled;  I don't
know under what name my mother was enrolled;  I was enrolled
and drew the Strip payment in 1894;  my father had a 
sister by the name of Lydia Hummingbird;  she was enrolled
in 1851 and I think it was in Going Snake District;  my
father drew emigrant money in 1852, but my mother did
not draw any;  (See 124 Going Snake and 634 Going Snake)

                         Signed Charlotte Adair
                                 X Mark
Copied from Application of Charlotte Adair.  
Note (Holly Hughes = Hul-ly Hughes)
Kathy Pitts