Welch, Betty

Student file of Mary Miller, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on October 25, 1890, graduated in 1897, and departed on August 27, 1897. The file contains student information cards, photographs, news clippings, returned student surveys, a former student response postcard, a report after leaving, and correspondence. The file…

Student information card of Betty (here Bettie) Welch, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, who entered the school on January 9, 1894 and departed on September 21, 1905. The file indicates that Welch graduated in 1905, married a Mr. Smith, and was living in Cherokee, North Carolina in 1915.

Student information card of Betty Welch, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, who entered the school on January 9, 1894, graduated in 1905, and departed on September 21, 1905.

In school documentation Betty Welch's name is also spelled Bettie Welch. Her married name is Betty Smith.

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Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 4) and Helper (Vol. 15, No. 37).

Report on the health of current and former Cherokee students of the Carlisle Indian School.

William A. Mercer provides a list of former Carlisle Indian School graduates who could fill seamstress or assistant matron positions in the Indian Service.

William A. Mercer provides information on Roxana Smith and Bettie Welch to the Office of Indian Affairs.