DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
COMMISSION TO THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES
SPIRO, INDIAN TERRITORY, MAY 7, 1903
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Choctaw 2779
Intermarried

In the enrollment of Mary Darneal as intermarried  Choctaw.

Stephen Darneal being sworn and examined by Com'r McKennon states:
 
Stephen Darneal, forty-four years old.

Q You are a Choctaw citizen by blood? 
A Yes sir.
Q Your wife is a white woman is she? 
A Yes sir.
Q Were you lawfully married to her? 
A Yes sir.
Q By whom? 
A Gilbert Thompson. A Choctaw Judge
Q When? 
A In 1882
Q In the Choctaw Nation? 
A Yes sir.
Q You didn't get any certificate of marriage? 
A No sir, I didn't get any.
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Polly Barrard being sworn and examined testifies:

Polly Barnard, fifty-nine years old.

Q Are you a Choctaw Indian by blood, or a United States citizen?
A No sir, I never proved up my right.
Q Are you acquainted with Stephen Darneal? 
A Yes sir.
Q Do you know his wife Mary? 
A Yes sir.
Q Were you present at their marriage? 
A Yes sir, and I saw them married.
Q By whom? 
A I cannot speak the man's name, he told you though.
Q She has been living with him here ever since? 
A Yes sir, ever since, and I saw him pay the money for his marriage.
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In the matter of the application for the enrollment of Mary Darneal 
as a citizen by intermarriage of the Choctaw Nation


********DECISION********

It appears from the record herein that Mary Darneal (nee  Long or
Logan), on December 24, 1882, was lawfully married to Stephen Darneal,
a recognized and enrolled citizen by blood of the Choctaw Nation,
whose name appears as number 8145, upon the lists prepared by this
Commission under the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902
(32 Stat., 641), of persons entitled to enrollment as citizens
by blood of the Choctaw Nation and approved by the Secretary of the 
Interior on January 17, 1903, that at the time of said marriage 
both persons above mentioned were residents in good faith of the 
Choctaw Nation, and that they have lived together continuously 
in said nation as husband and wife from the date of said marriage 
up to and including September 25, 1902.
It is, therefore, the opinion of this Commission that Mary Darneal
should be enrolled as a citizen by intermarriage of the Choctaw Nation
in accordance with the provisions of the acts of Congress approved 
June 28, 1898 (30 Stat., 495), and July 1, 1902 (32 Stat., 641), 
and it is so ordered.

COMMISSION TO THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.
Muskogee, Indian Territory, May 7, 1903