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Simon Favre, it comes in the early 1900s when the Federal Gov-ermer.t was attempting to relocate the splintered Choctaw tribe by offering them "free land" if they could prove their Choctaw ancestry. Needless to say, anyone with even a single drop of Choctaw blood in their veins applied for this "free land". The National Archives have all of the applications on file. The applicant was interviewed and required to name his parents, grandparents, etc., back to a positive link with a parent of known Choctaw birth. These applications are located under Record Group #75, File 57990-09-053 Choctaw pt. 1.
The following information, in summary, is taken from the above referenced file records on matters relating to the Favre family:
"In the application of a Seymour Favre etal. M.C.R. #2421, June 24, 1904, page 2, in response to the Secretary of the Interior through Indian Commissioner A.C.Tonner, Charles Favre is named as 1 of 5 children of Pis-tik-i-ok-o-nay, a Choctaw Indian woman and a "Frenchman named Favre", who did subsequently die in Hancock County, Miss.
In 1844, Alexis Favre testified that his maternal Grandmother was Cham-nay (Cham-ney). a full blood Choctaw Indian, vho was living alone about the time of the signing of the Treaty because her husband was dead at that time. Further, that Cham-nay lived on Yazoo Creek near Okecha-wahbahford in Neetuckachees district (now Lauderdale County, Mississippi, where she had a house and improved land. The record states that she died at this house in 1831 and was about 80 years old at the time of her death (born c 1751) .
Pis-tik-i-ok-o-nay, the daughter of Cham-nay and the mother of Alexis Favre, was also a full blood Choctaw and lived near to her mother on Boagfookah Creek (now Lauderdale County, Miss.). She "lived alone at the time of the Treaty in 1830 because her husband was dead." She also had a house and improved field in that year. In order to comply with the terms of the new Treaty, Pis-tik-i-ok-o-nay sent her representative to register her home place so that she could keep her land. When the representative attempted to register for her, he was refused by a Colonel Ward who was drunk. The records show that he did this to a large number of Indians who subsequently lost their land claims.
The record further reveals that some of her children had already matured and had settled in Hancock County, Miss, near the Coast. They were a part of the Indian group that later became known as the 1 'Bay Iud.ia.ris" ? These records state that Pis-tik-i-ok-o-nay went to Hancock County on
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