CARTER COUNTY, TN - MISC - Abstract, Voluntine B. Bowers Application to the
			    Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokees
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Application to the Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokees - Abstract

Application 38286 dated 26 Aug 1907

Voluntine B.  Bowers 
Elizabethton, Carter County
Tennessee

Age and Date of Birth
58 years old, born Oct 20th 1849
Born in Carter County, Tennessee

Wife's name and age
Barbery E. Bowers

List of children living on May 28, 1906
Rebecca Smith		32 years old
Lucy Smith		30 years old
Robert T. Bowers	28 years old	born Sep 3rd, 1889

Father William C. Bowers
Born in Carter County, TN
Father died in 1880

Mother Rebecca Deloach Bowers
Born in Carter County, TN
Mother living

Lived in Carter County, Tennessee in 1851

Name of brothers and sisters and date of birth
Ann Bowers
Mary Bowers Heaton
Reese B. Bowers	
Andrew J. Bowers	

Grandparents
Father's side
Volentine Bowers, place of birth Carter County or Sullivan County
Abigail Bowers, place of birth Carter County or Sullivan County

Mother's side
Father unknown
Susan Deloach, place of birth Carter County or Sullivan County

Name of grandparent's children
Ann Bowers

Remarks - This claim is on account of descent from Stephen Walden a 
Cherokee Indian.

Application rejected.  Claims through the same source as 35207 
(Elizabeth Treadway).

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Collins & Tipton
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Elizabethton, Tennessee				August 27, 1907


Special Commissioner, Court of Claims
601 Ouray Building
Washington, D.C.


Dear Sir:

	Enclosed please find applications of the following parties
for participation in the Cherokee fund:

		Julia Chambers
		Andrew J. Bowers
		Rebecca Bowers
		Lucy Smith
		Rebecca Smith
		Eliza Bowers
		Peter Hardin
		Ann Bowers

	We would thank you to file them at once.  We are obliged to
you for the 20 blanks in response to our telegram.

				Youre truly,
				Collins & Tipton

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