John M. Taylor of Claremore, Oklahoma, spent several days in the county last week filing papers with the court officials and gathering legal information to be used in filing certain legal documents with the Department of the Interior for the Oklahoma band of the Cherokee Indians, which he represents as legal adviser. Mr. Taylor was born in this county but went west many years ago and is settled in Oklahoma. Mr. Taylor was here in June, which was his first visit to this county in 50 years. The only person here whom he knew on his first visit a few months ago, stated Mr. Taylor the other day, were Mr. and Mrs. Dickey, Mrs. Bettie Patton and the Ples Ray daughters.
Mr. Taylor’s visit here was for the purpose of filing deeds for large boundaries of land in Cherokee, Clay and Graham Counties, which were said to have been willed to him and his heirs by his father, James Taylor, who died in 1907. In this connection, Mr. Taylor stated that his father was, just prior to his death, the only living charter member of the Murphy Blue Lodge, which was organized 52 years previously.
Mr. Taylor left Cherokee County the first of the week for Washington, D.C., to appear before the Bureau of Indian Affairs on behalf of the Cherokee Indians, and also to appear in a suit between Oklahoma and Texas, he stated.
From the front page of The Cherokee Scout, Murphy, N.C., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 1923. Although the headline says he’s a Texan the entire story is about his living in Oklahoma.
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