1906 Guion Miller Application #23559 Miscellaneous Testimony
for Leona Heneger and 1 child.  P.3444 #28974-23559:  Susan A. Mahan

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Misc. Testimony for Leona Heneger and 1 child.  
1906 Guion Miller application # 23559-Eucha, Okla.
Misc. Test. P. 3444 # 28974-23559-Susan A. Mahan:

   "That I am 37 years of age.  I claim my Indian descent through my 
mother.  My father was a white man.  My mother was 67 years old when she died.  
She claimed through her father.  Her mother was a white woman.  My mother 
was born in Kentucky.  I think it was Madison County.  Her father was born 
in North Carolina.  Don't know what county.  My grandfather's father took 
my grandfather to Kentucky when the first Indians left North Carolina.  My 
grandfather was just a boy. They lived there until the breaking out of 
the war.  They then lived in Missouri and Kentucky. They never received any 
land or money from the government.  My grandfather was on the Cherokee Rolls 
of North Carolina.  Ross Asbil is the name under which my grandfather was 
enrolled.  
My mother nor her father never were recognized as Indians.  She was 
always claimed among her relatives to be of Indian Blood.  Ross Asbil died 
abouit the close of the war and was somewhere near 70.  I applied to the Dawes 
Commission and they claimed they had no right to investigate our case.  I have 
been enrolled as an adopted citizen.  I have been a citizen by marriage for 22 years.  
My first husband was a full blood Cherokee.  I have two children by my first 
husband. William Adair was my first husband.  His father's name was Squirrel 
Adair and his mother's name was Sallie Adair.  Her maiden name was Sunday.  
William Adair was about 37 when he died and he died about 14 years ago.  Owl, Bat, 
Junaluskki were brothers of Squirrel Adair.  He had no sisters that I know of.  
Don't know who Squirrel's parents were.  Sallie had one brother and one sister but 
I don't know their names.  Sallie went by the name of Adair in 1851. She lived 
in Flint District.  My husband's parents were emigrant.  Canady Adair is a 
brother of my husband and he is living at Stilwell, Okla.  His name is Candy 
sometimes (see #7449).
Sally Adair's parent brought her out here with the first emigration.  
She was about 1 years old.  Sallie is living yet at Stilwell.  She goes by the name 
of Sallie Adair.  Leona Heneger (23559) is a daughter of my brother James.  His 
first wife's name was Nancy Jane Purdue and she was 1/2 Cherokee. Her father's name 
was Joe Green Purdue.  Her mother's name was Akey Perdue.  They were married before 
1851.  Liza and Nancy were Joseph's children.  I knew a Daniel and John Perdue and they 
were nephews to old Joseph Green Perdue. They are all dead.  He left a child, that 
is , Daniel did, by the name of James and he lives near Eucha. (Dis. 57?).  The mother 
of Amanda Thompson is my brother James' second wife and she was the widow of 
Daniel Perdue.  
She claimed Cherokee blood but it has been disputed.  Christena Johnson 
(35454) is the mother of Amanda Thompson, Delpha Black, Alexander Johnson by my 
brother James, and she is the mother of James Perdue by Daniel Perdue.  Leona Heneger 
and James Perdue are on the Dawes Commission Roll."
Signed Susan A. Mahan (no place or date given)