Bourbonnais Family History
Date1887 - 1999
Classificationslevel 2: series
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division
Object number2005.7.28-237
Description2005.7 Bourbonnais Family Manuscripts2005.7_2 Family History [Bourbonnais]
•Charles Louis Vasseur; Citizen Band Potawatomi Allotment No 595. 1pg.
•Newspaper Kankakee Valley Voyageur, Fall 1986, article titled Visit Kankakee River State Park and experience “Indian Summer in Shawanassee’s Big Medicine Country” which provides early Potawatomi history in area. 8 pgs. of scans original paper.
•Newspaper Article, The Shawnee News-Star, Sunday, November, 15, 1998, article “Old West outlaws Frank and Jesse James spent time in Shawnee” by Lynn M. Wiley.
•Shawnee News Star Sunday July 26th, 1992, “Bourbonnaies family has frontier roots” by Dortha Baxter, Mary Ann Bourbonnaies.
•The Shawnee Sun page 2 and back of this clipping have images of cheerleading group
•The Shawnee News-Star, Sunday, January 13, 1991, “Reminiscing helps preserve history, heritage” by Daniel Fields ref: Mary Anderson Bourbonnais.
•The Shawnee News-Star, Sunday, July 25, 1995, Early Bourbonnais family handed down oral stories, by Lynn M. Wiley curator, Santa Fe Depot Museum, “It’s your heritage.” article.
•Newspaper clipping article “James boys hid out by county family by Lynn M. Wiley curator, Santa Re Depot Museum.
•The Sunday Journal, Kankakee, Ill., December 11, 1983, article by Vic Johnson “Indians drums echo again beside the Kankakee.”
•The Shawnee News-Star, Sunday, May 25, 1997; article by Lynn M. Wiley “Small county town moved many times” ref: Pottawatomie county ghost towns.
•Article from unidentified paper; titled “Oklahoma’s First Sunday School, An Account of Its Organization by Its First Superintendent, Mary Bourbonnais, Tecumseh Oklahoma.
•“Up till now” Series of articles from The Sunday Journal, Kankakee, Ill., by Vic Johnson ; April 1, 1990: “Soldier” recalled in Champain; March 25, 1990: “Soldier’s Village’—The Indians’ Kankakee; “Treaty overlooked Indian Landlord; April 15, 1990 Bourbonnaies left with Indians to make way for Americans;
•The Daily Journal July 10, 1985, image with text Bourbonnaies’ great grandson.
•“Up’ ‘til now”, dated June 10, 1984, article by Vic Johnson, Sleuthing with area’s historians.
•Escort, Sunday, Febuary 1, 1976 article Early Day Living, on Bourbonnaies family history.
•Photocopies of article from The Sunday Journal, Kankakee, Ill. November 28, 1982, by Vic Johnson, “Bourbonnaies clan endured hardship in trek west”
•Up ‘til now, article by Vic Johnson, Bourbonnaies: Portrait of the man behind the town; The Sunday Journal, Kankakee, Ill., April 22, 1984.
•ESCORT, Sunday, February 1, 1976, (The Daily Oklahoman) by Cleo B. Southerland daughter of Minnie Anderson Burch, niece of Mary Ann Anderson Bourbonnais, titled Woman Recalls Early Day Living.
•From the book by Pricilla Sherrard, People of the Place of the Fire, pgs 126-130, Bourbonnais, narrative family history. 5 pgs
•Narrative family history, titled Family Names: Bourbonnaies, Calish (Cateche), Harnois, Dike, Rosenlof.
•Family record may be copied from bible or family book with births, deaths, and marriages of the family of Mary Margaret Bourbonnais Dike family, copy of obituary of Reed William Dike,
•Hand written note mailed in to Chairman Mr. Gerald L. Peltier, received Oct, 12, 1977, address changes for Annabell Nelson and Roger Dike Nelson.
•Letter type document reads like meeting minuets signed by Albert McLean Chairman and Frank Bourbonnais Secretary, Citizen Band Potawatomi copy of meeting minuets.
•Letter to Kenneth Peltier Sr. from Mr. Carroll Bourbonnais , ref: Catherine Peltier Bourbonnais.
•Letter to Mrs. Hollingsworth from Susan Cambell containing Madeline Vieux and Alexander Nadeau family information; dated August 21, 1978.
•Letter to Pat Sulcer, c/o Potawatomi Tribal Center, dated Jan. 21, 1987, from Vic Johnson, ref: book being sent to tribe entitled “The Story of Kankakee’s Earliest Pioneer Settlers” and clippings of articles written for the local newspaper.
•Letter to Pat Sulcer, c/o Potawatomi Tribal Center, dated March 20, 1987, from Vic Johnson, ref: HowNiKan and that there was a typo of Catish to Catfish and was seeking correction.
•Letter to Pat Sulcer, c/o Potawatomi Tribal Center, dated Feb,6 1987, from Vic Johnson, ref: subscription for HowNiKan paper and Kankakee information being sent to tribe for reference.
•Five small handwritten notes on Bourbonnais –Dike family history and three legal note pads also handwritten notes on family history.
•Bourbonnais/Dike family members listed on 1887 Citizen Band Potawatomi and 1863 Potawatomi census records.
•Certificates of death for Catherine Bourbonnais and Harold Bourbonnais.
•Obituary for Reed William Dike and handwritten list of death dates associated with Dike family members (Initials only).
•Group of “Up to now” articles by Vic Johnson retelling of Kankakee pioneer days/history, Dr. Todd stories, from The Sunday Journal, Kankakee, Ill, cert. 1990s.
•Photocopied from book or journal, “The Story of Francois Bourbonnais Sr., and His Home on the Kankakee.
•Photocopies from the Chronicles of Oklahoma, title “Mary Bourbonnais Organized a Sunday School” by Florence Drake.
•1999 Heritage Achievement Awards, sponsored by the Historical Society of Pottawatomie County, Mary Bourbonnais honored 1 of 5 ladies, pamphlet printed for the achievement awards banquet; also a copy of the award with all recipients names included.
•Document request for modification of probate No. H-66-63, Benjamin Bourbonnaies, ref: there were two Benjamin Bourbonnais which created possible problem with probate.
•Anderson Family Narrative with family charts and maps included by Tommy Craig Anderson 1986
•Anderson Family Narrative dated 1987 by Tommy Craig Anderson; edited version of some of above narrative.
•Archaeological report titled, Chapter V: Site 14SH359, Mark J. Wagner and Tracey Sandefur, ref Nadeau, Laughton-Bourbonnais family members, location Kansas.
•Black Hawk War record for Francois Bourbonnais Sr. submitted with other family history and newspaper article on Black Hawk War first Veterans, submitted by Charlie Wright.
•The Story of Francois Bourbonnais Sr. and His Home on the Kankakee
•Newspaper The Sunday Journal Kankakee, Ill., November, 21, 1982, “Few traces remain of Bourbonnais clan, by Vic Johnson.
•Report of Heirship for Mamie Bourbonnais, includes deposition and pedigree chart for Francis H. Hoy.
•Report of Heirship of Ellen Bourbonnais Myers, Peltier, daughter of Peter Bourbonnaies. 5 pgs.
•Index and Heirship cards : Aurelia Amelia Bourbonnais, Annie Young Bourbonnais, Benjamin Bourbonnais, Gabriel E. Bourbonnais, Jesse J. Bourbonnais, Leona Bourbonnais, Lloyd Bourbonnais, Walter Bourbonnais, Chevalier B. Bourbonnais, John Bourbonnais, Alfred Bourbony Bourbonnais, Mary Bourbonnais, Madeline Bourbonnais Vieux.
•Newspaper clipping titled “Perspective on the Arts” by David Walk, ref: Mary Anderson Bourbonnais Wedding Dress that was once housed in the Santa Fe Museum.
•Photocopy of Newspaper clipping about the death of Mary Anderson Bourbonnais with narrative to her place in the community all her life and burial.
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