This was originally posted on January 18, 2015.
Again, I was going to start a post about Winnie Connor, William Hendrix Yernipcut’s grandmother, but I somehow fell into more information about her father, William Connor, and his family.
If you remember in this post, I mentioned that I had found a Tripod page mentioning William’s father, Tusekia Micco. This correlates with the information found on William’s Seminole enrollment card. Somehow, while researching information pertaining to Winnie enrolling into the Carlisle Indian School as a member of Creek Nation, I came across information that definitely names William Connor as Creek, as well as being the uncle of Jackson Barnett, aka “The World’s Richest Indian”. Since I am not writing a post about Jackson Barnett, I will do something I rarely do and link his Wikipedia page here, so you can get an idea about him: Jackson Barnett on Wikipedia.
While I am finding conflicting information several times over (sometimes on the same pages, and in the same books), what I did find seems pretty solid. Well, provided that these are from the court records, which I can’t be ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE unless I order them and view them myself. However, according to this page:
The court finds that the father of Jackson Barnett was Siah Barnett, a full-blood Creek Indian, who died in the year 1897. The enrollment records of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes show that Siah Barnett was the father of Jackson Barnett, and there is no clear, cogent or convincing evidence to the contrary. Also, the credible evidence extrinsic of the enrollment records show that Siah Barnett was the father of Jackson Barnett.
The court finds that Jackson Barnett's mother was a full-blood Creek Indian Woman named Thlesothle, who died about the close of the Civil War and long before the time of the final enrollment and allotment of the members of the Creek Tribe of Indians in the Indian Territory. The enrollment records of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes name Thlesothle as the mother of Jackson Barnett, and there is no clear, cogent or convincing evidence to the contrary. Also, the credible evidence extrinsic of the enrollment records show that Thlesothle was Jackson Barnett's mother.
…The court finds that Siah Barnett was survived by a second wife Mary Barnett, enrolled as a full-blood Creek Indian, Roll No. 4506, who died in the year 1916, and who was not the mother of Jackson Barnett, and also that he was survived by the following children:
(a) A son, Jackson Barnett, enrolled as a full-blood Creek Indian, Roll No. 4524, the decedent herein.
…The court finds that Tusekiah Micco, also known as Neddie and as Old Man Conner, was a Creek Indian who died long before the time of enrollment and allotment of the members of the Creek Tribe of Indians in Indian Territory, and that he was survived by no wife, and was survived by the following children, to-wit:
(g) A son, William Conner, enrolled as a full-blood Seminole Indian, Roll No. 215 [should be 213, as his daughter Roseanna appears at 215], who died intestate in 1900, predeceasingJackson Barnett.
(h) A daughter, Thlesothle, a full-blood Creek Indian, who was the mother of Jackson Barnett, and who died long before the time of the enrollment and allotment of the members of the Creek Tribe of Indians in Indian Territory.
…The said (g) William Conner left surviving him no wife [the Seminole enrollment card is contrary to this], and left surviving the following children, to-wit:
(g) 1 A daughter, Susie Conner, enrolled as a full-blood Seminole Indian, Roll No. 216, now living.
(g) 2 A daughter, Emma Conner now Burgess, enrolled as a full-blood Seminole Indian, Roll No. 217, now living.
(g) 3 A daughter, May (or Hannah) Conner, enrolled as a full-blood Seminole Indian, Roll No. 219, now living.
(g) 4 A daughter, Wynie Conner Hendrix, enrolled as a full-blood Seminole Indian, Roll No. 223, now affiliated with the Caddo or Wichita Tribe of Indians, now living.
Again, here is a copy of William Connor’s enrollment card.
I think I may end up ordering these court documents in order to get a better look at everything involved!
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