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Clara (Mitchell) Neptune.

1915. Clara Neptune is now the oldest person in the tribe except Cecelia Barker. She is fully eighty years old. Nein! In 1917 says she is 85 but "Hunt say she only 77" 1923 says she is 85, but says Lawyer ____ says she is 78! She d. August [struck through] 1923 Apr 30, 1923 says grandson

She was born up on Sugar Island she says, 'in big house"; never made baskets, did not work much. She says that her grandmother was Mary Cecile Neptune (Mallysessel, as she called it). She could remember nothing about her grandfather. (I think he was killed in Bangor,) murdered -

When she was seven years old they were camping down by the Dirigo Mill & her grandmother took her to a store, where she was asked how old she was and was given as many yards of calico & a long string of beads. That winter, while they were camped near the tannery her mother and her grandmother died

I do not just make out who her father was, if as my father says, her grandmother married Henry Stanley, the white man Clara says that Sebattis Mitchell's father was killed, but doesnt say that he was her