Oil on an 11-year-old Creek Freedwoman's allotment brought her $300 a day, a white guardian took charge, and W. E. B. Du Bois wrote to her judge about reports she was being cheated

Sarah Rector was born on 3 March 1902 near Taft, in Indian Territory, to a family of Creek Freedmen. As a Freedman child she received an allotment of about 160 acres her father thought nearly worthless. In February 1911 he leased it to Standard Oil to pay the roughly $30 a year in taxes. In 1913 a driller struck a gusher producing about 2,500 barrels a day and about $300 a day in income. A court made T. J. Porter, a white cattleman and neighbour, her guardian; in October 1913 her royalties were $11,567. Mvskoke Media and Wikipedia report, citing other sources, that the Oklahoma legislature tried to have her declared white^†. In 1914 the Chicago Defender reported that her guardian took a large fee while she lived in a shack, uneducated. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote to Judge Leahy in June 1914; Leahy answered that she lived in a five-bedroom house and attended school. Two years earlier the children Herbert and Stella Sells, near her age, had been murdered for their allotments. In autumn 1914 she went to school at Tuskegee Institute. At 18 she moved to Kansas City as a millionaire. She lost much of the fortune in the Depression but stayed comfortable, died in 1967 and is buried in Taft.