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John "Doc Coosa" Baldridge (Cherokee Freedmen)

John "Doc Coosa" Baldridge (Cherokee Freedmen)

John "Doc Coosa" Baldridge (Cherokee Freedmen)

John was born in Georgia around 1830 and died on 10/26/1922
He is buried at Hickory Creek Cemetery in Nowata County, Oklahoma
He was fluent in both English and Cherokee
Dawes Commission roll number: 3457
Cherokee Freedman card number: 1238

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MARILYN VANN (Cherokee Freedmen Descendant)

John "Doc Coosa" Baldridge (Cherokee Freedmen)

John "Doc Coosa" Baldridge (Cherokee Freedmen)

Marilyn is President of the Descendants of Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes Association
She was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma
Marilyn Vann has received many awards, including the Cherokee Statesman Award for her contributions to the Cherokee Nation.

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CLAUDE DEVOYD HALL (Chickasaw Freedmen)

John "Doc Coosa" Baldridge (Cherokee Freedmen)

CLAUDE DEVOYD HALL (Chickasaw Freedmen)

Claude was born in 1879 in Berwyn, Oklahoma and died in 1908
First Black teacher at a Freedmen School in Tishomingo, Oklahoma
Dawes Commission roll number: 3934
Chickasaw Freedman card number: 1022

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SALLIE WALTON (CHOCTAW FREEDMEN)

SALLIE WALTON (CHOCTAW FREEDMEN)

CLAUDE DEVOYD HALL (Chickasaw Freedmen)

Sallie was born in 1863 in Skullyville, Choctaw Nation, within Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.
Sallie died on 07/28/1961 at the age of 98
She is buried at Oak Cemetery in Fort Smith Arkansas.
She was fluent in English and Choctaw
Dawes Commission roll number: 3748
Choctaw Freedman card number: 777

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PARO BRUNER (Creek Freedmen)

SALLIE WALTON (CHOCTAW FREEDMEN)

CAESAR BRUNER (Seminole Freedmen)

Paro was born in Alabama around 1802
Paro died on 11/10/1910 in Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma
He was fluent in both English and Muscogee
Dawes Commission roll number: 1
Creek Freedman card number: 1

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CAESAR BRUNER (Seminole Freedmen)

SALLIE WALTON (CHOCTAW FREEDMEN)

CAESAR BRUNER (Seminole Freedmen)

Caesar was born a free man in 1813
His mother was a Seminole woman and his father was enslaved by Tom Bruner
Caesar died on 06/26/1923 and is buried at Mount Zion Church Graveyard in Little, Seminole County, Oklahoma.
He was fluent in both English and Muscogee
Dawes Commission roll number: 2337
Seminole Freedman card number: 740

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