In Re Sixkiller's Estate

This is an appeal from a judgment and decree denying probate of a will made by Winnie Sixkiller, a full-blood Cherokee Indian. The will was signed October 28, 1926. At that time testator was about 88 years of age. She could neither read nor write, and could not speak the English language. At the time the will was signed she had four daughters living, namely, Mary Muskrat, Elizabeth Padgett, Ora Watt, and Nannie Hogner; one son, Taylor Sixkiller, had died leaving an only child, Josie Swimmer.

One of the daughters, Ora Watt, had been married to a man named William Hogner, and by him had borne…