Biography of John Stotts

JOHN STOTTS. – While many have wrought faithfully and well in forwarding the interests of our county and in developing the resources that nature has lavishly bestowed here, there has none, doubtless, been more faithful and enterprising and steady in the prosecution of the industry that his hand found to do than the venerable pioneer, esteemed citizen and genial gentleman whose life’s history we now endeavor to chronicle in brief outline. Mr. Stotts has been well and favorably known here for over one-third of a century and is today beloved and cherished by all who have the pleasure of his … Read more

Sallie A. Vaughn and Cora M. Stotts, Mississippi Choctaw

Sallie A. Vaughn and Cora M. Stotts applied for enrollment as Mississippi Choctaws in 1900, citing descent from Henry Latham, a full-blood Choctaw in Mississippi in 1830. Despite residing in Indian Territory for over a decade and having relatives on the final rolls, their applications were denied in 1902. The commission ruled they were ineligible because their names were not on the 1896 roll and they had not proven their ancestors took land under the 1830 treaty.