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Wednesday, June 16, 1943 Benjamin "Ben" Hampton Chickasha, OK ~ Ben Hampton, 90, who was born in Oklahoma and who was a member of the Dawes Commission in 1869 that allotted Indian lands, will be buried here this afternoon. Hampton, long prominent in Indian affairs, died in an Oklahoma City hospital yesterday. He was one of the 12 members of the commission chosen to represent the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes in the allotment of lands by the Dawes group. As a member of the Choctaw legislature elected in 1873, he translated the minutes of the house from Choctaw into English until the disbanding of the body in 1890. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Charles Lincoln White, Oklahoma City, and three sons, Perry H. Hampton, San Diego, Calif., Howard T. Hampton, Pampa, Tx., and Sgt. H. Hampton now somewhere in New Guinea. |
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