Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Shellie Barber Griffith
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   GRIFFITH: Glenpool, Tulsa Co., OK 
   Shellie Barber GRIFFITH, the oldest recorded tribal citizen of the
   Muscogee Nation, died November 30, 1998, at the age of 103.
   She was born September 7, 1895, in Indian Territory, south of what is
   now Glenpool, OK to parents Robert T. and Alice Ann BARBER. She was
   the daughter of Broken Arrow Tribal Town.
   She was preceeded in death by her parents, her paterrnal grandparents,
   Silas H. and Sarah Posey BARBER, and her paternal great-grandparents,
   Benjamin and Liza Berryhill POSEY, her husband Sim GRIFFITH, and two
   sons, Earl and Howard.
   Survivors include four granddaughter; one grandson; four
   great-granddaughter; one greatgrandson; one great-great-granddaughter,
   and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.