Sarah C. "Sally" Posey Ricketts, Application in MN, Dawes Commissin

Submitted by David Morgan dmorgan@efn.org

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Benjamin Bell Posey was born in Georgia, near the Creek Nation, 9
December 1829. 
He was the fourth child born to Benjamin and Eliza (Berryhill) Posey. Before 
1832, Benjamin's parents, Benjamin and Eliza (Berryhill) Posey moved into the 
Creek Nation. In 1832, they moved into the Creek Nation Reserve in Chambers 
County, Alabama. After Benjamin's father sold his land in the Creek Reserve, the 
family moved to Tallaposa County, Alabama. In 1846, Benjamin moved with his 
parents to Nacogdoches County, Texas. Benjamin Bell Posey married Melinda Murphy 
in Texas 26 December 1853. Benjamin died in Texas 18 August 1864.

Benjamin Bell and Melinda (Murphy) Posey's children:

1. Sarah C. "Sally" Posey was born in Limestone County, Texas, in 1854. Sally 
married Thomas Ricketts in Texas about 1872. In the early 1880s, Sally and 
Thomas Ricketts took their children and went to the Creek Nation in Indian 
Territory. I don't know when Thomas Ricketts died, but it was after the move to 
Indian Territory and before 1 April 1899. Sally (Posey) Ricketts applied for and 
was granted Creek Nation citizenship for herself and her children in the early 
1880s. Sally and children were on the Creek Census Rolls. Sally died before 1 
April 1899 in Indian Territory, but her children are on the Final Rolls of the 
Creek Nation.

Creek Census Cards of the children of Thomas and Sarah "Sally" C. (Posey) 
Ricketts follows:


Dawes	Name		age	sex	DIB	Father	Mother
No.	
	  Card No. 739  P.O. Sapulpa and Jenks  24 Aug. 1899
2438	Ricketts, Robert J.	18	M	1/8	Thos. Ricketts	Sarah C.
2439	Malinda Ann	sis	20	F	1/8	Thos. Ricketts	Sarah C.
2440	Margaret	sis	11	F	1/8	Thos. Ricketts	Sarah C.

	  New born card 271  P.O. Sapulpa
278	Ricketts, Clarence Francis	 3	M	1/16	Robert J. Ricketts	Ethel J.
279	Ricketts, Goldie Ardell	 1	F	1/16	Robert J. Ricketts	Ethel J.

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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This is an unpublished manuscript done by Thelma Nolen Cornfeld before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