23149-Ivey N. Powell nee Taylor Big Cabin, OK Admitted. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. <> Submitter: Catherine Widener (catz@kcisp.net ************************************************************************ Test. ‘I was born in 1851 but I was never enrolled until 1880, I was born in Cherokee County, NC, I claim Indian Blood through my father only; my husband is a Cherokee. I have no minor children who are not married. My youngest child, Dora, was married in April 1906. We came to this country in 1881; I and my two children came at that time. Neither my mother or my father came to the Cherokee Nation West. My mother has been dead many years. She died in 1882. James Taylor, my father, died at Claremore, Oklahoma, about three years ago. I do not know when my father came to the Cherokee Nation, I. T. My father never visited me in the I. T. I have two full sisters, one of whom is living, Lizzie Hardin of North Carolina. James Taylor lived with my mother and helped support us. He lived with us when I was a child. I first remember seeing James Taylor when I was a child. He just lived around about, with us sometimes, I don’t know whether he had another wife. I expect he did. James Taylor had three sets of children; Laura Dege was the first child of my father. Her mother was Nice De Arnold. I don’t know whether she was a white woman or not. She died before I was born. I don’t know whether my mother and father were ever legally married or not. I think they were married according to the Cherokee law; I could not tell whether he was living with another woman at the time he lived with my mother or not; he supported my mother and us children by giving us money; I guess he had other homes too. He stayed with us when not away on business; he has called me his child; he called us all his children; he came around the home and called us all his children. He appeared like he always thought a ‘heap’ of us. My father has bought me clothing when he was in Washington. Wiley Taylor is a full brother of James Taylor; Wiley Taylor acknowledges me as his niece; he has always called me his niece; he visits me occasionally. I do not know why Lizzie Hardin was never enrolled in N. C. I went tot he Cherokee School in Graham County, NC. It was close to Robinsville, NC. I drew school books like the other Cherokee children. I was admitted to citizenship in 1881 when I came out here; I was enrolled by the Dawes Commission; I was enrolled under the name of Ida A. Powell; James Taylor was said to be the one sixteenth Cherokee; All of my children were enrolled by the Dawes Commission; I was married in 1879 and came to the Cherokee Nation in 1881. James Taylor was at my house at that time; I do not know Mary A. McElrath who lives at Gainesville, Ga. I don’t know nothing about her. The only children he had by Ada Manchester, Betsy Ann Parker and Nice De Armond; he last woman he had children by was Ida Manchester. He lived with her back in the old nation west. I never heard of him having a wife in the west; I received the strip payment. Ada Manchester is the mother of James Taylor who lives at Pryor Creek; of John Taylor and Will Taylor and Addie Rucker; James Taylor acknowledged all of these children as his own and I have always regard them as my half sisters and brothers; my father has never visited me since I came to I.T. Ivy A. Powell, Pryor Creek, Oklahoma March 12, 1909 Miller # 21609 Dawes # 8109 Ivy A. Powell-55 years