Kevin Stitt
Birth Name: John Kevin Stitt
Place of Birth: Milton, Florida, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 28, 1972
Ethnicity: English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Irish, Scottish, around 1/64th Cherokee Native American
Kevin Stitt is an American businessperson and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he has served as Governor of Oklahoma, since January 14, 2019. He is the founder of Gateway Mortgage Group, of which he was chairman and CEO.
Kevin was born in Milton, Florida, and grew up in Wayne, Oklahoma, the son of Joyce and The Rev. John Lyndon Stitt, a pastor of Riverside Church. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation through his maternal great-grandfather, Robert Benton Dawson, who was given land in the Skiatook area. Robert’s father, Kevin’s great-great-grandfather John H. Dawson, was of one quarter Cherokee ancestry, through his own paternal grandmother. The name Stitt is of Northern Irish origin. Kevin is married to Sarah Hazen, with whom he has six children.
Kevin is the first tribally enrolled Native American governor of any U.S. state. He is said to be the second governor of Indigenous ancestry, after Johnston Murray, who was of Chickasaw descent, and was also Governor of Oklahoma, from January 8, 1951 to January 10, 1955.
Kevin’s paternal grandfather was Lt. Marvin Dean Stitt (the son of John Dee Stitt and Anna Mae “Annie” Murphy). Marvin was born in Conway Springs, Sumner, Kansas, and was the head veterinarian at the Oklahoma City Stockyards. John was the son of Charles Ashford Stitt and Jennellie Mabel Savage. Anna was the daughter of Henry Clay Murphy and Ruth Ethel Scarlett.
Kevin’s paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Hargrave DeButts (the daughter of Daniel Dulany DeButts, Jr. and Elizabeth Walker Hargrave). Elizabeth was born in Washington, D.C., to parents from North Carolina. Daniel was the son of Daniel Dulany DeButts and Frances Thweatt “Fannie” Sydnor. Elizabeth was the daughter of Lee Lyndon Hargrave and Edna Lee Lane.
Kevin’s maternal grandfather was Blum Blue Williams (the son of Lee Roy Alvan “Buck” Williams and Verlon Bowden). Blum was born in Onapa, McIntosh, Oklahoma, to parents from Arkansas. Lee Roy was the son of Asa W. “Acey” Williams and Agnes Jane Spears. Verlon was the daughter of Newton B. “Newt” Bowden and Martha Louvina Hamlin.
Kevin’s maternal grandmother was Thelma Valentine Dawson (the daughter of Robert Benton Dawson and Clara Belle Claypole). Thelma was born in Skiatook, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Robert was born in Arkansas, the son of John H. Dawson and Sarah Jane Wood. Clara was born in Missouri, the daughter of Joseph Claypole and Nancy Caroline Pogue.
Sources: https://www.oklahoman.com
Genealogy of Kevin Stitt – https://www.wikitree.com
He’s 1/64 Cherokee. John H. Dawson was 1/4 Cherokee via his paternal grandmother.
It’s rather watered down
Are you talking about his WikiTree genealogy?
About his Cherokee ancestry
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stitt-936
his entire genealogy
https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/ytaq7m/i_am_in_need_of_help_for_28th_governor_of/ A discussion on his genealogy and whether Stitt’s greatgrandparents who got on the 1907 Dawes Rolls were legitimate. There was lots of corruption and attempts to fake one’s Cherokee ancestry to acquire land, the 1896 roll that was scrapped to had some former Cherokee Nation citizens on there, thus they can’t get on the 1907 Dawes Rolls, but of course, the tribe said the rolls aren’t perfect while there are documents of any kind from 1817-1907 to prove they were in fact Cherokee. The history of white settlers’ attempt sto steal land, then culture and now identity of Indigenous peoples in the USA and Canada is a problem that’s being more addressed after being underreported in the MSM until the 2010s, but the Cherokee Nation declared Stitt’s Cherokee “blood” to be legitimate due to other branches of his family tree linked to “Old Settlers” who moved west into KY, MO, AR and KS before into OK before the Trail of Tears removal, like his great-greatgrandmother Clara Claypole/-pool’s family. And there were some Cherokee who lived in western Skiatook, Osage county which was its own reservation for the Osage Nation who aren’t all found on the Dawes Rolls.
AINT NO WAY I POSTED THAT
And a late reply, but someone had to post that. Kevin Stitt can’t be disenrolled from the Cherokee Nation because the tribe doesn’t do disenrollment, even though Gov Stitt is using OK state powers against the tribe he belongs to and 38 other federally recognized Native American tribes who have granted sovereignty powers over the state. +