Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington, 59th Congress, 2nd Session, House of Representatives Document #133. Known as the “McChesney Rolls,” 1906. Photograph section, page 56.
STATEMENT NO. 19.
STATE OF WASHINGTON, Pacific County, ss:
Margaret Skamock , of Bay Center, Wash., being duly sworn, says she is about 45 years old and her maiden name was Margaret George and her mother was Lah-wat-kin’s sister, named Mary, who was a Lower Chinook Indian, who died about twenty-nine-years ago, aged about 49 years, and she was alive in 1851, when the treaty of that year was made. I have no brothers alive, and none of them left any issue or wives surviving them. I had three brothers. I had one sister, who is also dead without issue. I am the only heir now alive of Lah-wat-kin’s deceased sister Mary. My mother had brothers and sisters, but they are all dead without issue and I am the sole surviving heir of my mother and her sister, both of whom were alive in 1851, when the treaty of that year was made.
MARGARET (her x mark) SKAMOCK
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Bay Center, Wash., this 3d day of January, 1906.
CHAS. E. MCCHESNEY
Supervisor of Indian Schools.
NOTE.– This woman could not give any information about her father, but thought he was a white man. She undoubtedly is part Indian, and I have enrolled her as the daughter of Lah-wat-kin’s sister, deceased, or Mary, and also as the niece and heir of Lah-wat-kin, deceased (Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington, 1906: 31).
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STATEMENT NO. 21.
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
Pacific County, ss:
Bob Silackie, of Georgetown, Wash., being duly sworn, deposes and says he is about 48 years of age. My father was Queanequash, and he was a full blood Clatsop Indian, who was alive in 1851, but has since died, but I can not tell the year exactly. My mother was a full blood Clatsop Indian, alive in 1851. She died several years ago. I do not remember her name, but she was a sister of Tostow, one of the Clatsop chiefs, and a signer of the 1851 treaty. I was a small boy when my father died. I have no brothers or sisters, and I am the sole heir of my deceased father and mother. I have a niece alive named Rosa Pickernell, of Bay Center, Wash.
BOB SILACKIE (his x mark).
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Georgetown, Wash., this 3rd day of January, 1906.
CHAS. E. MCCHESNEY
Supervisor of Indian Schools.
(Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington, 1906: 32).
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STATEMENT NO. 27.
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
Pacific County, ss:
Julia Russell , of Ilwaco, being duly sworn, deposes and says she is 62 years of age, and that her maiden name was Julia Pickernell, and that she has been married twice, the first time to Charles Green, who is now dead. My second husband, William Russell, is now alive. My mother’s name was Tonwah, and was a Chinook and Clatsop Indian woman, who died thirty-two or thirty-three years ago. My father was John E. Pickernell, deceased. He was a white man and has been dead twenty-eight years years. My mother was alive in 1851, when the treaty of that year was made, and I was also alive then. I have one brother now alive, named John Pickernell, and he lives at Astoria, Oreg., and I never had any other brothers. I had two sisters, both of whom are now dead. The oldest one was named Harriet Sweeney, and she died in April, 1899, and was married but once, and left surviving her four children, all of whom are now alive. Frank Sweeney, who now lives at Ilwaco and is about 46 years old; also Walter Sweeney, who lives at Ilwaco, but who is now absent at South Bend, Wash., aged about 27 years; also Lucy Langland (maiden name Lucy Sweeney), who lives at Chinook, Wash., aged about 25 years; also Wilbert Sweeney, who lives at Ilwaco, but is now absent and is about 22 years old. My other sister was named Mary Ann Pickernell, and she was married twice, first to V.W. Bouten, from whom she was separated, and her second husband is N. Nienberg, who is now alive. By her first husband she has two children, who surive her are her sole heirs, named Vasco Bouten and Eugene Bouten, whose address is Ilwaco. She had no children by Mr. Nienberg. There are no other heirs of my deceased sisters now
alive. I know Mrs. Kate McCarthy (now Mrs. Kate Brown), of Ilwaco. Her mother belonged to the same band I do. Her mother and my mother were cousins.
JULIA (her x mark) RUSSELL
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Georgetown, Wash., this 5th day of January, 1906.
CHAS. E. MCCHESNEY
Supervisor of Indian Schools.
I have read the foregoing affidavit of Julia Russell and know the same to be true. I am 65 years of age.
Astoria, Oreg., January 10, 1906.
JOHN PICKERNELL
Sworn to and subscribed before me at Georgetown, Wash., this 10th day of January, 1906.
CHAS. E. MCCHESNEY
Supervisor of Indian Schools.
NOTE.– N. Nienburg, the second husband of Mary Ann Pickernell, afterwards Bouten, is alive and is an heir. Also Mary Ann Bouten had a daughter by her first husband, whose name was Emaline, and she was married to Joseph Petit, who with six children survive her at Chinook, Wash. See statement No. 36. Evidently neither Julia Russell nor Vasco Bouten considers the above parties to be heirs of the deceased Mary Ann Pickernell Bouten Nienburg, which of course they are.
McC.
(Rolls of Certain Indian Tribes in Oregon and Washington, 1906: 34).
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