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I, Bazile Claymore, Sr. being first duly sworn according to law, depose and say: That I am now about eighty-six years of age; that I came to this tribe of Indians sixty-six years ago; that I was married to a half-breed Indian woman named Sarah Pierre, known by her Indian name as White Woman, and lived with her until her death, a period of sixty years; that I married this woman about the 19th dayof November, 1845, according to Indian rites and customs of that time; and that she was a duly recognized member of the Sans Arc band of the Sioux Indians; that on or about April 13, 1880, we were remarried according to the rites and ceremonies of the Protestant Episcopal Church, by the Rev. H. Swift, Fort Bennett, SD and during the year, 1885, was again remarried, this time the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Father Bede of Fort Yates, ND, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic church.