The Cherokee Rattling Gourds

The Cherokee Rattling Gourds http://rattlinggourd.com Tracking down the Gourd Clan of the Cherokee Indians Thu, 19 May 2011 16:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Frank Gourd’s Dawes Commission Transcript http://rattlinggourd.com/frank-gourds-dawes-commission-transcript/29.html http://rattlinggourd.com/frank-gourds-dawes-commission-transcript/29.html#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:51:08 +0000 admin http://rattlinggourd.com/?p=29 http://rattlinggourd.com/frank-gourds-dawes-commission-transcript/29.html/feed 0 Frank R Gourd http://rattlinggourd.com/frank-r-gourd/19.html http://rattlinggourd.com/frank-r-gourd/19.html#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:55:22 +0000 admin http://rattlinggourd.com/?p=19 This information is a mix of reliable and still unsubstantiated information about Frank R Gourd. Use caution in use.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN “FRANK” RATTLING GOURD

b. February 23, 1872, Cherokee Nation West, Tahlequah Cherokee Co OK
d. September 11, 1911, Round Lake, Morrison Co MN

Actual records I possess:

His application to the Eastern Cherokee Guion Miller Rolls.
His Dawes Commission interview
Correspondence between Frank R Gourd and the Government
Death Certificate

Links to information I’ve found on Frank R Gourd

This entry in The Pacific Reporter summing up the OKC Supreme Court case Byrd vs Hammett (1910) references a Frank Gourd.
Frank Gourd, along with the rest of his family, is here listed on the Dawes Rolls. Link to original image.

Other people listing information on Frank Gourd

Sharlee’s Cherokee Heritage
Congressional Report
Frank’s Father, Looney, is listed here. A test?

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