Southern Claims Commission
(Many of these pages are extremely hard to read)
Claim of Francis M. Monks of
James Fork, Ar #13065 Apr 16, 1872
Claim Disallowed
| ITEMS & AMOUNT |
WITNESS' |
PERSONAL INFORMATION | OTHER |
| Horses & cattle taken by Maj. Foreman & Gen. Bussey. Claim $1160.00 1. Two Horses value $250.00 2nd Sixty head of cattle taken on or about the 1st day of January 1865 value $910.00 |
Joseph R. Pratt, Greenwood, Henry Smith, James
Fork, John Smith, Greenwood, Phillip Paterson, Greenwood. John Ratterree, Greenwood Daniel Chapman ???, John Hill ??? Sebastian Co., AR John W. Smith Aug 28, 1878 - brother in law to Francis Monks. "The claimant was born in the Choctaw nation where i first became acquainted with him this was about five years before ??? he got married. Shortly after I got acquainted with him his wife was a Choctaw woman. She had on child and died about two years after marriage. The claimant continued to live in the Choctaw Nation until he came to Ft. Smith in Jul 1863. The claimant married a second time about the beginning of the war. He married my sister there is no Indian blood about claimants or my sisters He claim & exercised the rights of an Indian in the Nation by virtue of his first marriage and of his first ??? child his ????? His first wife had a considerable |
1st wife was Indian. Married in 1857. She died in 1859? They
lived in the Choctaw Nation. Later he lived in James Fork. He was age 40 in 1872 Arrested and placed in Indian House Guard & ???. |
"New report drawn disallowing the claim on another account that he had been paid for his cattle." |