Q. What is your name? A. Augustus K. Perry.
Q. What is your age? A. 56 years old.
Q. Do you live at Celestina? A. Yes, near there.
Q. How long have you lived in the Indian Territory? A. I moved there in June of 1897.
Q. Where did you come from? A. I came direct from Oklahoma there.
Q. How long had you been living in Oklahoma? A. I have been there about 18 months.
Q. Where did you live before you went to Oklahoma? A. Pawnee.
Q. How long had you been there? A. I had been there a year or two.
Q. Where did you live before that? A. Kansas.
Q. How long did you live in Kansas? A. 2 or 3 years.
Q. Where did you live before that? A. I came from Iowa to Kansas.
Q. How long had you been living in Iowa? A. About 10 or 11 months.
Q. Where did you live before that? A. Indiana.
Q. How long had you lived in Indiana? A. Stayed there about 4 or 5 years.
Q. Where did you live before that? A. Mississippi?
Q. You have lived in Miss. Ind. Kan. Ia. Okla. and Ind. Ter.? A. Yes Sir
Q. And during your lifetime you have lived in the Ind. Ter. Since June of 1897? A. Yes Sir.
Q. What is the name of your father? A. Isaac Perry.
Q. Is he living? A. No sir.
Q. Was he a Choctaw Indian? A. Yes sir.
Q. What proportion of Choctaw blood did he claim? A. I suppose he was a full blood; I run away from him when I was a little boy; he was about the color of that gentlemen; that Indian.
Q. Do you know to what county in the Choctaw Nation he claimed to belong to? A. No, I don’t.
Q. He never was in the Choctaw Nation, was he? A. They told me he was; I run away from him in Mississippi.
Q. What is the name of your mother? A. Lutricia Perry.
Q. Is she living? A. No, I never saw her.
Q. Was she a white woman? A. She was said to be Indian.
Q. You never saw her? A. I don’t recollect if I ever did.
Q. You don’t know how much Indian she was? A. No Sir.
Q. Do you know if she was ever in the Choctaw Nation? A. No, she was not because she was dead before I left Mississippi.
Q. What proportion of Choctaw blood do you claim to have? A. I suppose I must be a quarter.
Q. Is your name on the Choctaw Indian rolls? A. No sir.
Q. Did you ever apply to the Choctaw tribal authorities for enrollment as a Choctaw Indian by blood? A. No Sir.
Q. Did you apply to the Dawes Commission in 1896? A. No sir—yes, I sent in my application: I didn’t apply personally.
Q. Were you admitted or rejected? A. Rejected.
Records examined. Choctaw 1896, Citizenship Doc. C., page 296, Choc. Case 576. Augustus Perry et al v. Choctaw Nation; original application filed Sep. 9, 1896. Answer Choctaw Nation filed; judgment of the Commission denied application Dec. 2, 1896. Appealed. Judgment of the Commisiion sustained by the U. S. Court
Q. What county in the Choctaw Nation do you claim to belong to? A. Tobocksie County.
Q. Are you married? A. Yes Sir.
Q. Arec you claiming any rights for your wife? A. No sir.
Q. What is your wife’s name? A. Mollie Treat.
Q. Is she living? A. Yes Sir.
Q. Is she a citizen of the U. S. ? A. Yes sir.—no she was a Chippewa Indian.
Q. Where did you find her? A. In Indiana.
Q. How much Indian is she? A. I guess she is about 1/8.
Q. Has she ever been recognized by the Chippewas? A. Not that I know of.
Q. Where did she come from to Indiana? A. She was raised by a Quaker man.
Q. You don’t know whether she came from Minn. or Wis.? A. No, she was an orphan.
Q. did she ever take any land in either of these states as a Chippewa? A. No Sir.
Q. When were you married? A. In 1873.
Q. Where? A. In Mooresville, Indiana.
Q. Under what law? A. Under the U. S. law.
Q. Have you your marriage license and certificate? A. It got blowed away in a cyclone. I was married by T. N. Thompson. A Methodist preacher.
Q. Give the names of your children under 21 years of age, and unmarried? A. Willie T., 20 years. Arley N. 17 years, Elmer J. 14 years and Elizabeth J. 12 years.
Q. Is there any additional statement you would like to make in regard to your case at this time? A. No Sir.
…Frances R. Brown, being first duly sworn, says that as stenographer to the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, she reported the testimony of the above named witness, and that the testimony foregoing is full true and complet transcript of her shorthand notes in said case. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 14th day of June, A. D., 1900.
