Person:Nelly Fraizer (1)

Nelly Fraizer

• Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914. NARA M1301. The Dawes Commission negotiated with tribal members who received common property in return for abolishing their tribal governments. (Record Group: 75, Roll: 0086, Tribe: Choctaw, Group: Mississippi Choctaw, Card Range: MCR 178- MCR 214, Case Number: MCR 205, Surname: Boyd, Given Name: Victoria, Status: [Blank]).

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It is also found that the name Nelly Dyer appears on page 94 of Volume VII, American State Papers, Public Lands, in a list of names of Choctaw Indians, heads of families, who resided in Greewood Leflore’s District in the territory occupied by the Choctaw Indians in the States of Mississippi and Alabama at the date of the making of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek and had lands in cultivation, in exchange for which they were to receive stipulated tracts of land in accordance with the provisions of the nineteenth article of said treaty; also on page 628 of said record in the affidavit of John Hammond, as claimant under the fourteenth article of said treaty; also on page 640 in a list of names forwarded by George W. Martin, as the head of a family, who applied to said Martin prior to the land sales of 1833, to have land reserved from sale under the provisions of the fourteenth article of the treaty.

The deposition of Stephen Perry taken before I. Murray and P. D. Vroom Commissioners, February 2, 1838, states clearly that Nellie Dyer had six children by Oxberry and Dyer, her two husbands and further that her husband had been dead 15 or 16 years…

The affidavit of Charles Frazier, a brother of Nellie Dyer, taken before commissioners Murray and Vroom, February 2, 1838, shows that at the time of the treaty of 1830, Nellie Dyer had six children, Pallas Oxberry, George Oxberry, Cyrus Oxberry, Polly Dyer, Lucinda Dyer and Jeremiah Dyer. The record in this case, and those in the possession of the Commission, show these children to be by two different men, three by Oxberry and three by Dyer. The statement was made by Charles Frazier that the husband of Nellie Dyer, to-wit: Obadiah Dyer, died three or four years before the treaty of 1830, and affiant did not know how long her husband Oxberry ahd been dead and that she afterwards married a man named Jack Derrick…

1.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Everett Family and the Choctaw Trading Post, the (Factory).
2.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: Hammond
   19 Jan 1838.
3.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: TURNBULL
   22 Jan 1838.
4.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: Robert Cole
   30 Jan 1838.
5.   Patrick Lawrence (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Witness: Moon-tubbee
   30 Jan 1838.
6.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). Perry Family, Dawes Packet (Choctaw), Comment: A. C. Tonner
   Jan 1838.
7.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.