Phoebe Jo Alexandra Watson, (1/4 Choctaw)

Female 1814 - 1870  (56 years)


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  • Name Phoebe Jo Alexandra Watson 
    Suffix (1/4 Choctaw) 
    Born 1814  Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Apr 1870  Hatfield, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Research Notes 27 May 2014 
    • Calculating percentage of Choctaw blood is proving to be complicated. Her son William applied for Dawes, stating he was 1/8 Indian, meaning Phoebe was 1/4. Witnesses stated that she was niece of Hiocatubbee, who was full Indian; and that her brother was Isaac who was Indian (percent not stated). Sarah Irena Watson married a brother to Phoebe's husband, and there's a write-up floating around on the Internet stating that Sarah was full blood Indian, but no source was given. Perhaps Sarah and Isaac were full by another marriage somehow and half siblings to Phoebe? Taking the facts at hand if William was accurate that he was 1/8, it looks like this might be the line-up:
      1. Indian father
      + Indian mother 6g grand
      2. Hiocatubbe (uncle to Phoebe)
      + white mother
      2. Phoebe?s mother 1/2 5g grand
      + Phoebe father Watson (white)
      3. Sarah Irena (if she?s a sister)
      3. Isaac (stated as an Indian and a bro to Phoebe)
      3. Phoebe 1/4 4g grand
      + m Sam
      4. Wm 1/8 as he states
      + Josie (she and the children (1/16) were labeled as Mulatto in 1910 census)

    Person ID I57735  Roots
    Last Modified 27 May 2014 

    Father (..) Watson,   b. Abt 1785,   d. Aft 1820  (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Mother (sister of Hiocatubbee), (1/2 Choctaw Indian),   b. Abt 1785,   d. Aft 1815  (Age ~ 31 years) 
    Married Abt 1809 
    Family ID F20403  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Samuel Francis "Sam" Nichols,   b. 16 May 1807, DeKalb Co, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Nov 1875, Hatfield, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Married 1827  Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Burgess Nichols,   b. 16 May 1832, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1871, Cove Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
    +2. James Fletcher Nichols,   b. 1834, De Kalb Co, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Dec 1879, Waurika, Jefferson Co, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years)
     3. Sarah Ann Nichols,   b. 1836, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1850, of, White, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 15 years)
    +4. Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols,   b. 1837, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1898, Indian, Penobscot Co, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
    +5. Carter Nichols,   b. 1839, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1863, Cove Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
    +6. Isaac Nichols,   b. 1841, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1874, of, White, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years)
    +7. Joseph Brown Nichols,   b. 15 Nov 1843, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Aug 1920, Hatfield, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     8. John Nichols,   b. 1845, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Feb 1885, Shady, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 40 years)
     9. Pleasant Nichols,   b. 1847, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 May 1951, Yell, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 104 years)
     10. Calvin Carlson Nichols,   b. 20 Dec 1847, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1887, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
     11. Blackstone Nichols,   b. 1851, White, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1860, Cove Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 10 years)
     12. Warren Nichols,   b. 1853, Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Dec 1930, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    +13. William Nichols, (1/8 Choctaw),   b. 2 May 1856, Cove Polk Co, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1918, Belzoni, Pushmataha Co, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
    Last Modified 1 Sep 2013 
    Family ID F19027  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
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  • Documents
    Watson, Phoebe Alexander - Dawes Application
    Watson, Phoebe Alexander - Dawes Application
    individual pages of the Application downloaded from Ancestry Tree "Sonya Walker's Family Tree."
    http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/50546806/person/13078697693
    Subsequently I combined those pages into one pdf.