Anderson Family History
Date1872 - 1920
Classificationslevel 2: series
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division
Object number2005.2.63-190
Description2005.2 Anderson Family Manuscripts2005.2_3 Family History
• Tommy Craig Anderson 12 pg. typed manuscript of Anderson Family and Potawatomi History; 2 copies note they are not exactly alike one is an edited version of the other, that said not positive which is which; also note one copy if scanned into electronic files other is not.
• The Evening Gazette/John Bly shoots Pete Anderson; typed transcription from newspaper and added family oral history of tragic incident in Anderson family, retold by Tommy Craig Anderson.
• Letters: From Luther W. Wammack acting superintendent Shawnee Agency to Area Director, Anadarko Area Office; dated Sept. 11, 1968
• Naomi Macarty Thompson; family history documents: letter dated Sept. 18, 1890, from A. Navarre attorney to Davis Hardin Shawnee town; Family Record photo copied from book; photocopies of images of Julia Hardin Anderson, her brother, Nellie (Anderson) Macarty, Donna Smith, Isabell (Anderson) Mims.
• Chronicles of OK, “Potawatomi Day Schools” by Robert D. Ragland, photo copy of article, 3 pgs.
• How Ni Kan People of the Fire newspaper Vol. 8 No. 4 March 1986 “One Family’s Story, Potawatomi history-it belongs to us all” by Tommy Craig Anderson, 7pg
• How Ni Kan People of the Fire newspaper Vol. 9 No. 4 April 1987 “Anderson Saga – Part 2” by Tommy Craig Anderson, 6pg
• Newspaper Article photocopied from Shawnee News Star, Sunday, July 26, 1992, “Bourbonnais family has frontier roots”, 1 page.
• Newspaper article, photocopied from Daily Oklahoman, ESCORT, Sunday, February 1, 1976, “Women Recalls Early Day Living” by Cleo B. Southerland, 2 pgs.
• Newspaper article, photocopied from The Sunday Journal, Kankakee, ILL., November 28, 1982 “Bourbonnais clan endured hardship in trek west” by Vic Johnson, 2 pgs.
• Photocopy of page in directory for business advertisement (pg. 120) for the Peoria Plow Manufactory, Peoria, May 1844, Tobey & Anderson, 1 pg.
• Notes personal affidavit type note from Katherine Seabolt nee Negahnquet and Rose M Phillips in re: to Isabell Anderson
• Notes on small yellow pad paper, re: to Anderson siblings and cousins and having same blood degree. 1 pg.
• Ester Darling Smith-9 pages, letter to Mary Farrell , Tribal Rolls from Tommy Craig Anderson submitting documents in reference to Ester Darling Smith degree of Potawatomi,
• Ester Darling Smith-3 pages, letter to Mary Farrell, Tribal Rolls, dated July 16, 1991 from Tommy Craig Anderson submitting documents in reference to Ester Darling Smith degree of Potawatomi, note envelope is attached to these documents as well.
• Letter from Mrs. Bella Looney, Archivist (where?) to David McEvers, dated Nov. 22, 1971 in re: to Anderson family history, 2 pgs.
• Handwritten letter photocopied w note of explanation attached; note is to Mary Farrell Tribal Rolls from Craig Anderson (Tommy Craig Anderson) letter is in re: to Nellie Kennedy and her husband George A. Anderson and other Anderson relations, 6 pgs. w/note.
• Handwritten notes photocopied from possible book in re: to Jacob Johnson and Sophie Vieux family information, 1 pg.
• List of marriages, births and deaths of Hardin, Lafromboise and others family members
• Photocopy of birth certificate with note for George Edward Anderson
• Photocopies of pages of entries from books kept by Charles Wesley Edmister when employed for the Shawnee Agency (Indian) in the 1930’s, dates indicate between November 1933 thru August of 1934, sent to Ms. Lori Bowlan CBP Indians of Ok., from Craig Anderson, dated Jan. 27, 1986
• Letter-Dale Wshia to unidentified recipient re: mineral rights of father’s allotment, dated Feb 6, 1964
• Western Union Telegraph Company, 1 telegram message that was delivered on 2 telegram papers, to Patrick agent director from acting commissioner R.V. Bolt, re allotment process instructions with special attn. to Neluado and Goodboo families that will be issued in a few days with revisions, dated received at Sapulpa Ind. Ter. Jun 4, 1892.
• Heirs of Irene Anderson-21 pages consisting of letters to and from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Secretary of the Interior, dated to the 1920’s, Allotment or Estate Record, receipt for simple patent, heirship interest documents.
• John Anderson allottee family history; Elizabeth Anderson marriage info with parents listed for both as well as children from union to date, 1 pg.
• Letter handwritten from John Kremenak to Mary Farrell, dated November 28, 1990 re: to identity of unidentified images in How Ni Kan identified as Anderson family members by Johns mother Elizabeth Anderson Kremenak, he included photocopies of images with identification, 4 pages.
• Family history “Children of Peter Anderson, C.P. Certificate 23 and Julia Hardin Anderson, C.P. Certificate 24, doc., 1 pg.
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