Source: Email message from Sara Zink (sz0411@yahoo.com) to Linda Bennion

Deposition given by Anderson MCCARTY in 1896 or 1897 in Sugar Loaf County in the Choctaw Nation (Oklahoma) concerning gaining Indian rights

``Bryant McCarty and Annie McCarty were my parents. My mother was a Smith before she was married. She was a sister of Jack Smith. I knew my grandmother....she was a Jones, Martha Jones, before she was married... My mother spoke the Choctaw language...''