Hearing of Descendants in Annie Blythe Case

Court of Claims, Eastern Cherokee Indians

Cherokee County Courthouse, Murphy, NC, July 15, 1908

The following named and numbered claimants, who will make good witnesses in the Blythe case, have been notified to appear before J. E. Tylor at Murphy, N. C., on July 15, 1908.

[Note that names in orange text below are navigable links to the testimony and signed affidavits made at this hearing.]

APPLICATION NUMBER	NAME OF APPLICANT / WITNESS
222	McDonald, James L.
1518	Witt, Sophia E.
3273	McDonald, Alfred C.
4267	Dockrey, Martha L.
4741	Killian, Sarah M.
4746	Hughs, William F.
3976	Hampton, John A.
4761	Humphreys, Octavia
5820	Davis, James Andrew
29727	McDonald, John G.
5415	McDonald, Thomas C.
5416	McDonald, John
24343	Arrowood, Will
5482	Worlick, Mary Jane
687	Harden, Elizabeth (whose application is already in the field)
------	McDonald, Catharine
------	Southerland, John H. (a white man)
------	Meroney, Martha Ann
------	Hughes, Martha A.
------	Whitener, Annie
------	Deweese, Edmond A.

The applications of Mary Jane Worlick and Martha Ann Meroney are not sent to the field, as no testimony is desired in their individual cases, but is merely desired as to what they know about the Blythe case.

Questions Posed to Blythe Witnesses

Summation of Hearing in Blythe Case

Notes from the Desk of Belva A. Lockwood, Attorney, Washington, DC

Miss Belva A. Lockwood's Photo and History

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