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Higbee Family History

Date1906 - 1991
Classificationslevel 2: series
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division
Object number2005.19.14-48
Description2005.19 Higbee Family Manuscripts
2005.19_2 Family History [Higbee]
•Alexander Joseph Richstatter Family History by creator Kevin Ray Roberts, July 18, 1991. 2 pgs.
•Birth and Death Records pages from family bible family name Byrd, and a page of handwritten notes on births. 3 pgs.
•Letter from Gladys Moeller to BIA April 18, 1980, ref Samuel Betrand family. 1 pg.
•Letter from Gladys Moeller to Beverly Hughes March 16, 1981, references family history and blood degree of children of Julia Bertrand and Alva Higbee. 2 pgs.
•Handwritten letter from Joanna Gervais to Beverly Hughes January 28, 1982, referencing thanks for information received. 2 pgs;
•Typed letter from Alta Pearl Fraser to How-Ni-Kan June 12, 1989, providing information on the Robert A. Higbee family. 2 pgs.
•Marriage Records copied from family bible and handwritten notes of marriages for the Byrd family. 3pgs.
•Hand written genealogy & history for Frank Smith descendants, sur names Pecore, Whitehead, Dodson and Black. 4 pgs.
•Hand written ancestor genealogy charts for Julia Bertrand, sur names Bourassa, Higbee, Dulignon, and Lemair.
•Hand written notes taken from Gladys Moeller appeal, received 6-80, references children of Julia Bertrand and Alva Higbee and notes on Smith, Countryman, and McClane family. 4 pgs.
•Handwritten notes on Bertrand/Higbee history other family names mentioned Bourbonnais, Smith, Palmer, Merritt, Wiley, Denton, Fehlig, Moose and Bourassa. 4 pgs.
•Handwritten note on Kenneth Ray Edgar family history. 1 pg.
•Newspaper Articles; Two [2] articles photocopied on one page, Sept. 10, 1938 “Raze Old Landmark” by Earl J. Smith & 1956 “Historic Higbee Inn Burned at Bertrand” by James Miller. 1 pg.
•Obituary Notice Lena B Farley, date of notice unknown. (Note on page not scanned is handwritten note “family history not accurate” author unknown. 1 pg.
•Photocopy of Westmoreland Newspaper 1906 “Pottawatomie County History” unknown author, Pottawatomie County Kansas. 2 pgs.