Bell, Eliza

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Eliza Bell Student File
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Student file of Eliza Bell, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881, and departed on August 20, 1885. The file contains student information cards, former student response postcards, photographs, a returned student survey, correspondence, and a report after leaving. The file indicates Bell attended the Wealaka…

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Eliza Bell Student Information Card
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Student information card of Eliza Bell, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on August 20, 1885. The file indicates Bell married R. S. Brown and was living in Okmulgee, Oklahoma in 1913 and 1915.

Note: Eliza Bell and James Bell were siblings. 

 

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
The Indian Helper (Vol. 4, No. 8)
October 5, 1888

The first page opened with a poem “The Two Words,” followed by Lucy Jordan’s letter to the Man-On-The-Band-Stand titled “Carlisle A Bright Picture” in which she mused about her days’ past at Carlisle and life at home on the Stockbridge Reservation. Next came “A Budget of News from Eliza Bell” (Creek) with word from the Nuyaka Mission, Indian…

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Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Fifteen female Creek students with teacher, 1881

Portrait of fifteen female students with a female teacher posed in front of and on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption on the album page identifies them as Creek students who arrived in January 1881. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society and has identified them as: front row, left to right, Elizabeth McIntosh, Rosa…

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Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Ralph Brown, c.1885

The handwritten note reads: Ralph Brown age 17 years

Ralph Brown was Eliza Bell Brown's husband.

Format:
Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Oliver Brown and his pony, c.1909

The handwritten note reads: Oliver Brown and his pony

The reverse side includes a short note from Oliver Brown to his mother Eliza Bell Brown.  

Format:
Postcard (Real Photo)
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Oliver Brown, c.1912

The reverse side reads: Oliver Brown aged 21 - years 

Oliver Brown was Eliza Bell Brown's son.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Tullahassee Mission, 1881
January 19-20, 1881

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 25 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Tullahassee Mission in Muscogee Indian Territory.

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration