Aaron ASKEW

North Carolina

General Notes

from Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, by U.S. Dept. of the Interior. December 17, 1902. Decree of citizenship court vacating judgments of United States courts in "test case." The records in the cases of William Quint Askew, Murrell Washington Askew, L. F. Rhoades, J. H. Hill, and Ella Bennett were certified to the citizenship court for trial de novo. ...September 19, 1904. Decree of citizenship court was rendered in each of the above-named cases certified to that court, denying the applications of all claimants for enrollment as citizens of the Choctaw Nation.

...Aaron Askew was the son of --- Askew, a white man, and --- Frazier, a full-blood Choctaw Indian woman. Ten children were born to Aaron and Eliza Askew...

Eliza Askew, nee Wright, 73 years of age, wife of Murrill Askew, who was son of Aaron Askew, in her testimony before the master, states: That she is the wife of "the Murrill Askew that was admitted to citizenship"; that she was acquainted with Aaron Askew and lived not over 2 miles from him, in Lauderdale County, Ala.; that Aaron Askew claimed to be a Choctaw Indian and had the features of a Choctaw Indian; that she was acquainted with Aaron Askew's children -- Tilda, Tom, Murrill, Elizabeth, Nute (Newt), and Wash (Murrill Washington) Askew; that Aaron Askew claimed to have one-half Indian blood and that her husband, Murrill Askew was one-fourth Choctaw; that Matilda Askew married Hiram Hill and had several children; that Elizabeth Askew married Joe Douglass. She then states that Cleopatra Askew was her [own] daughter, who married L. F. Rhoades.

source: http://books.google.com/books?id=chATAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=lauderdale+aaron+askew&source=web&ots=LSIVaLcIve&sig=AqzioiZd4Kx96-cqqRsMFN_v3nQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA482,M1

Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama
[No. 489] An Act. For the relief of Aaron Askew, tax collector for the county of Lauderdale. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, that the comptroller of public accounts be and is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer of the state in favor of Aaron Askew, for the sum of forty dollars and seventy-six cents, it being the amount overpaid by said Aaron Askew as tax collector for the year 1849. Approved, February 9, 1852.

source: http://books.google.com/books?id=KK03AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA523&lpg=PA523&dq=lauderdale+aaron+askew&source=web&ots=YDWYEX69IP&sig=3N-6vKl6rpNMd3xusx91Hp_DT40&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

[Aaron's son] Murrell was born in Williamson County, Tennessee, not far from Franklin. He was born to Aaron and Elizabeth “Lovey” Askew on March 4, 1811. His father Aaron, was born in North Carolina in 1789. At the age of 22 he moved with his wife to Tennessee. Hosea Holcomb says that Aaron was a “wicked, profane man, but felt a keen conviction for sin . . .”[1] He further states: “In 1816, he removed to Lauderdale [County, Alabama], a profligate deist.”[2] In 1818 he was converted and “forsook some of his evil practices; such as profane swearing, Sabbath breaking, etc.” and he was baptized in the beginning of 1819.

           He was ordained to preach in 1826. Just how serious he was as a preacher has been questioned. Percy D. Wright kept a journal and wrote several things about the Askews. His aunt Elizabeth had married Murrell Askew on March 2, 1845.[3] Young Percy heard many tales about Aaron and Murrell Askew. He wrote: “Askew would preach and say, ‘Do as Askew says, not as Askew does.’”[4] He further stated that Askew was a “drunken preacher.”[5] Young Murrell grew up under these circumstances, whether all of these charges about his father were true or not true.

source: http://www.therestorationmovement.com/askew.htm

see also: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~allauder/pic-askew-

land records for ASKEW in Lauderdale, AL:

ASKEW        MURRELL           8         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   81.07        1858/03/01   ADD CERT #18525
ASKEW        AARON             34        1S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   320.71       1858/03/01   ADD CERT #18518 #18519
ASKEW        AARON             34        1S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   0            1858/03/01   ADD CERT #18518 #18519
ASKEW        MURRELL           7         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   0            1858/03/01
ASKEW        AARON             34        1S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   0            1858/03/01   ADD CERT #18518 #18519
ASKEW        MURRELL           7         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   124.36       1858/03/01
ASKEW        AARON             5         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   40.08        1852/03/10
ASKEW        AARON             33        1S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   0            1858/03/01   ADD CERT #18518 #18519
ASKEW        AARON             33        1S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   40.2         1852/03/10
ASKEW        AARON             33        1S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   40.2         1852/03/10
ASKEW        AARON             4         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   39.99        1852/03/10
ASKEW        MURRELL           17        2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   40.07        1853/08/01
ASKEW        MURRELL           8         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   40.13        1854/06/15
ASKEW        AARON             4         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   39.99        1839/08/01
ASKEW        THOMAS            4         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   39.99        1852/04/01
ASKEW        MOSES             17        2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   40.06        1854/06/15
ASKEW        MURRELL           18        2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   0            1858/03/01   ADD CERT #18525
ASKEW        MURRELL           4         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   39.99        1849/08/01
ASKEW        MURRELL           4         2S         9W     HUNTSVILLE   39.99        1849/08/01

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