[Rarebooks] FS: Cherokee Family Archive

[Bob Petrilla]

ARCHIVE OF SEVENTEEN (17) DOCUMENTS, BEING HOMESTEAD ALLOTMENTS FOR ONE
CHEROKEE FAMILY, 1900-1910, AND A PHOTO-PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY.  Included
are:  Certificates of Allotment, Homestead Deeds, and Allotment Deeds
granting land to three members of the Lowe family--James, Rosa, and May. A
later (1915) Warranty Deed mentions one Zelma Lowe.  Most of the documents
are legal size and dated 1905-1907, before Oklahoma became a state.  At
that time, the land comprised territorial counties and Muskogee Indian
Territory. Several documents are clerk-signed(?) by James Rudolph Garfield,
Secretary of the Interior In Theodore Roosevelt's administration, and son
of the assassinated 20th US President.  Other documents are signed by Tams
Bixby, Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes. The photograph of James
and Rosa Lowe and their daughter was taken at Bee House (Coryell County).
Texas.  Very Good condition.  $850.00

Postpaid in US.  Usual trade terms.



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