Matilda Root-Jackson-Barr

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Annmarie Christian

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01/27/2006

Matilda Root-Jackson-Barr

This is a photo of my "Maternal Great Great Grandmother," Matilda Root-Jackson-Barr. She was a Creek Indian Shaman and Medicine Woman. In this photo she is holding my maternal grandmother, Mary Josephine Wadsworth.

Date & Place: 1903 at unknown in Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma USA

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