Talked to my daddy's only living immediate relative, his sister, Juanita Blanche Head ..... "Aunt Sister"....born March 31st, 1921....her nickname is "Sister"...all the Head children but Perry, the oldest, had a nickname...She is the only one left of the children born to Billy and Sallie Lee Allen Head and who grew up in the old house that used to be at 2224 North 4th Street in Waco, right down the street from the entrance to Cameron Park. Her son, Billy, and his wife, Dorothy, had read my blog and printed out the Head history for her, as she does not have a computer....She liked it!!! I was worried about being accurate....Guess I am as accurate as I can be for such a long time ago and not even born yet!!!!
My cousin Billy, Sister's son, wanted to know where that Indian land was located! I am going to call the Bureau of Indian Affairs about the matter, as an authentic Native American friend of mine recently told me there could actually be a record of it, that he thought only the Choctaw called property rights "a headright", and how would I know that specific term if not for the letter????
Family legend has always been that we were part-Choctaw, not some other tribe, and the Choctaw Nation is in Oklahoma where my grandparents went by covered wagon in the early 1900s to claim the land........ Hmmmmmm........ Interesting! We will see what turns up.
.NOTE: You can read about the Indian land and some of the Head history in the Archives at the first entry of the Blog, July 8th, 2005.
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