DAWES ROLL #10829 MY MOTHER'S LINE

All descendants share the same Roll number

Turner Brashears Turnbull  1814-1877

married Jerico Perkins 1820-1893

Came to Mississippi Territory during the Trail of Tears

Mary Ann (Turnbull) Benton 1856-1917 

married Henry Benton 1847-1888

Charles Henry Benton's Father was Wakatombi

and his mother was Shakapahoma

Theadore Henry Benton  1880-1967

Traveled the Trail of Tears as a small boy

Full Blood Choctaw #10829

The last time I saw him he had long braids

He married Phoebe Onie Fitzer

She is Indian but not registered.  Back then it was considered embarrassing 

for some reason she did not get her CDIB--Certificate Degree of Indian Blood. 

 My uncle Gene is currently trying to prove her descent so that it will make our degree more.

Isn't it funny how time changes some things..now we are fighting to prove it

My mother told me her grandfather would put powder on his face before going to town

 to appear more white

His nickname was Toad

He is my great grandfather

We are the Turtle Clan

Charles Wesley Benton 1911-1982

Born in Bokchita Oklahoma Territory and raised at the Indian Boys School

they took him from his family and moved him there because he was Indian

His nickname was Chief

He is my grandfather

Our son is Charles and was married this January with his ring

Charlene Benton Dodson 1934-

Many Feathers

Appointed by Gov. Bill Clement to serve on the Texas Bureau of Indian Affairs

My mother, my beautiful Indian Mother

Gina Leigh Gillispie 1957-

 Red Bird 

Me

name given to me by my Uncle Gene, the eldest in the clan

Grace Maria Calvert 

1980

I think--Yellow Feather

our daughter

Betty Beatrice Calvert 

2007

I think---Little Yellow Bird

She is the last Indian in our tree

the blood line runs dry

Before my mother

After my mother

Life goes on and on and on 

but somewhere in the middle of it all

it starts with you

YOU are the girl, the daughter, the child, the mother, the grandmother and great grandmother

and then you are gone

but somewhere along the way

you are the one

YOU are the LINE