Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
MaryE Watson 12/19/06
MaryE,
I have found several websites which claim my paternal grandmother, Alberta Ashworth, was a Choctaw.I've not yet been able to determine who posted the original declaration which seems to be the source of all the other.Neither my father nor any of his sisters knew anything they would confess concerning Native American ancestry.One aunt adamantly assured me that her mother would have been just as insulted to be considered an Indian as she would have been were she considered "colored."
Though born in Trinty County, TX in 1879, the daughter of Amos Ashworth and Persilla Jolly, my grandmother is buried in Miami, Ottawa County, OK, headquarters of a government agency serving nine Native American tribes.She lived more than half her 94 years in this northeastern OK town surrounded by Native Americans.It was here that she started attending the Assembly of God which had evolved less than three decades prior to her attendance from the Church of God in Christ, a denomination then headed by the son of a freed slave.
Larry
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
MaryE Watson 12/19/06
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Larry Keels 12/19/06
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson