Affidavit of John C. Calico
Madison County, Arkansas
Dated May 11, 1892
RE Indian Blood
Submitted by Kenneth Robertson

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Affidavit of John C. Calico
State of Arkansas}
County of Madison} ss.

Personally appeared before me a Notary Public  in and
for the State

And County aforesaid J. C. Calico, personally and well
known to me whose character is good for truth and veracity, after being duly sworndeposeth and sayeth, my age is
seventy-five years, my Post Office address is Wesley,
Arkansas, Madison County.

In the matter of the claim of George W.Vaughan, for citizenship or right in the Cherokee Nation, the affiant
states as follows: I am personallyacquainted with George
W. Vaughan, and know him to be the son of Jackson
Vaughan, whom I was also acquainted with, and know
him to be the son of Samuel Vaughan, with whom I personallyacquainted. I knew him to be the son of FeribyVaughan, who was my Grandmother, her maiden
name being Feriby Benton. She married William Vaughan,
my Grandfather. Feriby Benton was the daughter of my
Great Grandmother Benton whose maiden namewas
Looney, who was Cherokee by blood.

The affiant further states that Feriby Benton married
William Vaughan in the Old Cherokee Nation in Tennessee. And Grandmother Vaughan told me or stated to me that
her mother was Cherokee by blood, whose maiden name
was Looney. I also heard Uncle Daniel Vaughan acknowledge to the Cherokee blood in him to a man named Lowel in
1828, who was selling goods at Cane Hill in Washington County which was a territory at that time.

The affiant further sayeth not. 

      (Signed) 
        his
John C. (X) Calico
       mark

Attest
W. W. Tucker
M. C. Calico

Sworn & subscribed to before me llth day of May 1892.
J. H. Cummings  Notary Public
 

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