Bittle family on Final Rolls of Creeks - Dawes Commission Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org ************************************************************************ 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Mary Marina (Berryhill) Bittle received her Creek Nation Citizenship in 1890. She continued to live at the Old Miller Farm and died there in 1897. Mary Marina (Berryhill) Bittle is buried in the Church Yard at the Old Miller Farm, near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Following is a listing of Mary and her children on the Creek Rolls: 1882 Creek Census Broken Arrow Town Mary Biddle age 44 "By Old man Biddle" S. A. age 30(20) (Sarah Ann) George W. age 38 (s/b 28) Jacob (Jr.) age 32 (s/b 22) Claira age 16 Carrie May age 6* H--- Brown (M) age 25 Micco Brown age 8 *I don't know whose child Carrie May was. I have found no more information on her. TNC. 1890 Creek Census Broken Arrow Mary Bittle "dead" George "dead" Jacob Claire *Notations "dead" were entered later by the Dawes Commission. George Bittle was born in Jackson County, Missouri, about 1855. He was the second child born to Jacob, Sr., and Mary Marina (Berryhill) Bittle. George went with his parents from Kansas to the Creek Nation before 1881. George married, in the Creek Nation, a full blood Creek Indian girl by the name of Martha Meeks. Martha died and after her death, George married Lizzie Thomas. George Bittle died in the Creek Nation between 1895 and 1 April 1899. George Bittle's child by Martha Meeks: 1. Muskogee Essie Bittle was born in the Creek Nation in July 1887. In 1900, she was living with her cousin, Martha Lee (Berryhill) Kiefer and Martha's family, in Mounds, Indian Territory. About 1904, Muskogee "Essie" Bittle married James N. Sullivan. By 1910, James Sullivan had died, leaving Essie a widow of twenty-two years of age, with two children. Essie and her children, in 1910, were living in Bixby Oklahoma, near Essie's uncle, Jacob Bittle. James and Muskogee Essie (Bittle) Sullivan's children: A. Gladys M. Sullivan was born in Stone Bluff, Indian Territory, 26 July 1905. B. William J. Sullivan was born in Bixby, Oklahoma, in 1908. George Biddle's child by Lizzie Thomas: 2. William Bittle was born in 1897. Creek Census Cards of the children of George Bittle: Dawes Name age sex DIB Father Mother No. Card No. 3004 P.O. Mounds 17th of May 1901 8568 Bittle, Muskogee Essie 13 F full George Bittle Martha Meeks Card No. 1915 P.O. Sapulpa 16 May 1900 6033 Bittle, William 3 M 1/8 George Bittle Lizzie Thomas Jacob Bittle, Jr., was born in Jackson County, Missouri, in March 1860. He was the third child born to Jacob, Sr., and Mary Marina (Berryhill) Bittle. Jacob moved with his parents from Kansas to the Creek Nation before 1881. Jacob was living in Mounds, Indian Territory, in 1900, with his cousins, William and Narcissa (Creswell) Wills. Jacob married Mrs. Arminda Green (Oswalt) Brown in Indian Territory about 1901. Arminda may have been related to Benjamin and Eliza (Berryhill) Posey's daughter, Nancy Green (Posey) Oswalt, but I haven't found the connection. Arminda was born in Texas about 1870. Jacob Bittle, Jr., died in Oklahoma in 1935. Arminda (Oswalt) Brown, Bittle died in 1936. Both are buried in the Duck Creek Cemetery at Mounds, Oklahoma. Following is Jacob Bittle's Creek Census Card and the card for his daughter: Dawes Name age sex DIB Father Mother No. Card No. 973 P.O. Mounds 16th Oct. 1899 3146 Bittle, Jacob 39 M 1/8 Jacob Bittle Mary M. Minor Card P.O. Mounds 309 Bittle, Mary Marina 1 F 1/16 Jacob Bittle Arminda Jacob, Jr., and Arminda (Oswalt) Bittle's children: 1. A son who died young. 2. Mary Marina Bittle, II, was born in Mounds, Indian Territory, 1 April 1905. She married Antoine Copenhaver. Mary Marina (Bittle) Copenhaver died in 1983. Clara Bittle was born in Kansas in 1867. She was the fifth child born to Jacob, Sr., and Mary Marina (Berryhill) Bittle. Clara went with her parents to the Creek Nation before 1881. Clara married a Mr. Simmons. Following is her Creek Census Card: Dawes Name age sex DIB Father Mother No. Card No. 746 P.O. Fry 26th of Aug. 1899 2456 Simmons, Clara 33 F 1/8 Jacob Bittle Mary M. I have found no other descendants of Mary Marina (Berryhill) Bittle; only Dot Raskind of Bakersfield, California, who has no children. --- The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before her death in 1996. Her daughter Barbara gave me permission to put her research online. David Morgan