Choctaw Nation Archives - Probate: Sophia Bohanan ************************************************************************ 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. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kathy Pitts October 08, 2002 ************************************************************************ IN THE COUNTY COURT OF PUSHMATAHA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, SITTING IN PROBATE. In re estate of Sophia Bohanan, dec'd. Comes now RHODA FRAZIER, formerly RHODA BOHANAN, joined by WILLIAM GARLAND, guardian of SIDNEY BOHANAN, a minor, and respectfully represents to the Court that the said SOPHIA BOHANAN died in the year 1904 in the Central District of the Indian Territory in the part therof known as Pushmataha County; that she was a Choctaw Indian by blood and rated as a full-blood; that as such Member of the Choctaw Tribe of Indians, she was allotted and received as her portion of land the following described premises; The Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter and the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and the North Half of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Secion Twenty (20), Township Six (6) South, Range Five (5) West; also The South Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter and the West Half of the southeast Quarter of Secion Fourteen (14), Township Six (6) South, Range Six (6) West; also The Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Township Three (3) North, Range One (1) East, Section Twenty (20). that your petitioner, RHODA FRAZIER and SIDNEY BOHANAN, a minor, are the heirs at law of said SOPHIA BOHANAN, deceased; that they have never received any benefits from the lands and estate of said SOPHIA BOHANAN; that the lands of said SOPHIA BOHANAN are now in possession of divers and sundry persons and they are withholding same adverse to these petitioners; that it is necessary for their protection that legal proceedings be instituted to recover possession of said land; that they have entered into a contract with the law firm of Kendrick, Davis & Smith to institute the necessary legal proceedings to recover possession of said property, and have agreed to give the said Kendrick, Davis & Smith an amount equal in value to a one-half (1/2) interest in the property so recovered by the said law firm in their litigation; that such proceedings are necessary in order for these petitioners to derive any benefits from said estate; WHEREFORE, they respectfully ask this Court to approve said contract and authorize said suit on behalf of the guardian of said minor, and to approve the contract on the part of the said RHODA FRAZIER, all of which is respectfully submitted. At the request of RHODA FRAZIER I wrote her name to this instrument of writing, and afterwards she affixed her mark to said signature in my presence. Witness to mark W.L. Gulaney? G. G. Wilkin Signed RHODA FRAZIER her mark X WILLIAM GARLAND IN THE COUNTY COURT OF PUSHMATAHA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA? SITTING IN PROBATE In re estate of SOPHIA BOHANAN, dec'd. On this, the 4th day of Sept., 1912, Court being in regular session, the above cause came on to be heard on the application of RHODA FRAZIER and WILLIAM GARLAND as guardian of SIDNEY BOHANAN, the sole heirs at law of SOPHIA BOHANAN, deceased; and it appearing to the Court that said SOPHIA BOHANAN died intestate in the year 1904 in what is now Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, and that she left a landed estate which descended to these petitioners; that divers and sundry persons are in possession of said lands and holding them adversely to these petitioners; that it is necessary to institute legal proceedings to recover possission of same. And it appearing further to the Court that said petitioners have entered into a contract with the law firm of Kendrick, Davis & Smith to institute such legal proceedings, and the said contract having been introduced in evidence in this cause, and the Court being fully advised as to the conditions of same, is of the opinion that it is for the benefit of said estate and the heirs at law thereof that said contract should be approved. It is Therefore Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed by the Court that the contract entered into between RHODA FRAZIER and WILLIAM GARLAND as the guardian of SIDNEY BOHANAN, as heirs at law of SOPHIA BOHANAN, made and entered into with the firm of Kendrick, Davis & Smkith, be in all things approved, and that the said WILLIAM GARLAND as guardian make report in due season to this Court as to the results of said litigation. J. P. Davenport Judge.