Bergeron Family History
Date1819 - 1989
Classificationslevel 2: series
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division
Object number2005.4.16-99
DescriptionOriginal and copied documents, records, correspondence, pertaining to Bergeron [Citizen Potawatomi] family allotments, enrollment, census, genealogy, religion, and family history. Family photographs [original and copies]. 2005.4 Bergeron Family Manuscripts
2005.4_3 Family History
•Bergeron/Lewis family narrative family history, dated March 2, 1976 1 pg.
•Family Group Sheets, dated 10-14-88, Bergeron family history; Xavier Bergeron and Josephine Watch-E-Kee.5 pgs.
•Report of Heirship of Francis Milot. 3 pgs.
•Report of Heirship of Joseph L. Melott. 2pgs.
•Book excerpt Chapter 13 “Wat-che-kee and Her Family Depart for Their Home in the West” pages 91 thru 98. 4 pgs.
•Book excerpt Chapter 8 “LeVasseur Divorces His Indian Wife Wat-che-kee” pages 57 thru 62. 3 pgs.
•Bergeron Family handwritten notes reflecting blood degrees and family connections. 4 pgs. and small note.
•Narrative family history letter to the How Ni Ka dated May 23, 1989, titled Francis and Josette Bergeron. 3 pgs.
•Letter to Ava DeLeon, Citizen Band Potawatomi, from Jack W. Bazaw, ref: Francis X Bergeron on the 1863 tribal rolls, dated October 14, 1988. 1 pg.
•Letter to Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe, Ava DeLeon to Jack Bazhaw dated October 31, 1988, with 4 pages of vital records. 5 pgs.
•Court affidavit from Amanda Neddeau on Alice E. Barshaw and Charles Barshaw, dated June 6th, 1896. 1 pg.
•Photocopy of article in How Ni Kan, vol.11 no. 5, May 1989 page 17, titled “Scrapbook, The Melot Family”. 1 pg.
•Probate for Francis Milot, deposition by Emily Holloway, 2 pages.
•Letter dated August 7, 1984 ref: inquiry of Violet Marie Melott (Milot) from We Pruner and copy of Receipt for Fee Simple Patent for Alice Crandrell, formerly Alice Barshaw dated July 11, 1908. 4pgs.
•State testimony of Alexander R. Upton, dated February 14, 1919, 5 pgs.
•Testimony of Frances Bazhaw on the estate of Mary Denton (Mary Bergeron, CP No. 902. 3 pgs.
•Genealogy ancestor family chart of Jack W. Bazhaw. 1pg.
•Newspaper article from Shawnee News-Star 12-17-89, titled Lewis helped develop Ivy school cemetery” article on Wesley Lewis. 1pg.
•Citizen Pottawatomi # 1089, John B. Bergeron, ref allotment and heirship of such. 7pgs.
•Certificate of Appraisement, for allottee Madeline Denton No. 900, Report of Heirship of John B. Bergeron, Allotment or Estate Record of John B. Bergeron. 9 pgs.
•Testimony of Frank Bashaw, Charles Edmister, Joe Murphey –Witnesses in the estate of John B Bergeron. 4 pgs.
•1863 Tribal Roll for Pottawatomie Indians, a page from Kansas Kin dated August 1979, 1 thru 38 numbered families. 1 pg.
•Vital record death certificate of John B. Bergeron. 1pg.
•Newspaper article/obit ref: “Passed Away, Death of Noel LeVasseur, the old Indian Trader, dated Dec. 18, 1819. 1 pg.
•Transcribed copy of the 1880 Declaration of Citizenship of Dellila Bourassa Bergeron as well as a copy of the original. 3 pg.
•2nd page of enrollment page reflecting family history of applicant and page of handwritten notes on separate page. 2 pgs.
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